Day 614 - 1st IDF naval strike on Yemen leaves Houthis undeterred

The Times of Israel Daily Briefing

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🗓️ 11 June 2025

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Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian and political reporter Tal Schneider join host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and Defense Minister Israel Katz agreed on Israel’s response to Hamas’s counter-offer to a US proposal for a hostage-ceasefire deal at their meeting yesterday, Army Radio reports. The response has been forwarded to mediators, the report says. Officials are now awaiting the terror group’s response, but in the meantime, fighting continues on the ground in Gaza. Fabian fills us in.

In a first, Israeli Navy missile boats on Tuesday morning launched strikes against infrastructure at the Houthi-controlled port of Hodeida in western Yemen. Fabian explains the pros and cons of using the naval forces instead of the air force for similar future attacks.

The UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway said Tuesday that they would freeze assets and bar the entry of National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich for having “incited extremist violence” against Palestinians in the West Bank. Schneider weighs in on all the various diplomatic efforts on the table designed to pressure Israel to stop the Gaza war, including the upcoming conference in New York co-sponsored by France and Saudi Arabia on the topic of the two-state solution.

Leaders of opposition parties decided this morning to submit a private bill to dissolve the Knesset, starting the process of four votes that may -- or may not -- lead to new elections. Schneider dives into the thorny topic and explains the forces pulling strings behind the scenes.

Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing liveblog for more updates.

For further reading:

Palestinians say 20 killed near aid site; IDF says troops fired at Gazans who posed threat

Israeli Navy carries out Yemen strikes for 1st time, targeting Houthi port

IDF shoots down Yemen missile; multiple interceptors launched as it breaks up

UK, Canada and 3 other nations sanction Ben Gvir and Smotrich over settler violence

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IMAGE: Illustrative: An LRAD missile is launched from the Sa’ar 6-class corvette INS Magen during a test in November 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing. Today is Wednesday, June 11th, day 614 of the war.
0:11.5	Amanda Borchelle Dan here with our military reporter Emmanuel Fabian and political reporter,
0:17.0	Tal Schneider. Thank you both for joining me today. Hi, Amanda. Hi, Amanda. Today may or may not be
0:23.0	a pivotal day in the Knesset, and we'll learn all about that in the second half of the program.
0:28.1	But first, Manny will tell us about an unprecedented naval strike, IDF naval strike on Yemen.
0:35.2	All this and more when we're back.
0:47.4	Tolkien's trilogy was a perfect book to send to a POW.
0:50.2	Very well-defined good and evil.
0:55.8	And it was a great escape from the physical environment that we were in.
1:01.0	It's November 16, 1973, and we're at the military section of the Lode Airport.
1:06.4	A red and white, DC-6 passenger plane lands, and out of it comes a stream of young men.
1:14.6	Ten men known collectively as Shvuei Milchemeta Atasha, the POWs of the War of Attrition. All of them had been held, most of the time together, in an Egyptian prison for more than three and a half years.
1:20.6	So it was very much a kibbutz.
1:23.6	I want to draw your attention to a small, tattered bag, Menachem Eini is holding.
1:28.5	That brown knapsack actually held a treasure.
1:31.5	A manuscript that would make these men in their unlikely story momentarily famous.
1:36.5	It was the fruit of their communal work during the years in which they were held in one of Egypt's most notorious dungeons.
1:43.7	The Hebrew translation of the Hobbit.
1:47.0	Check out the Israel Story episode, The Hebrew Hobbit.
1:51.1	Find Israel Story wherever you get your podcasts.
2:00.7	And we're back. I'm Amanda Borchelle Dan here with our military reporter, Emmanuel Fabian.
2:05.8	Manny, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that the response to the hostage-release
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