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The Times of Israel Daily Briefing

Day 656 - MKs, activists form action plan to undo 2005 Gaza pullout

The Times of Israel Daily Briefing

The Times of Israel

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🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

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.

Legal and settlements reporter Jeremy Sharon and Knesset reporter Ariela Karmel join host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode.

We begin the program with an update on the ongoing saga of the attempts to fire Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara. On Sunday morning, the five-member ministerial committee recently set up to dismiss the attorney general voted unanimously to recommend that the government to dismiss her. We hear what are the potential next steps toward firing her -- and probable backlash.

Yesterday at the Knesset conference called “The Gaza Riviera – from vision to reality,” Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich endorsed a “security annexation” of the northern Gaza Strip and claimed that Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir favors the idea. Dozens of right-wing politicians and activists claim they are set to "right a historic wrong" that occurred 20 years ago with the 2005 Disengagement. Karmel sets the scene.

Israeli authorities have said they are taking control of the management of the Tomb of the Patriarchs holy site in Hebron, in order to carry out construction work at the flashpoint West Bank shrine. Sharon explains how there is precedent for this temporary control and delves into why the move is so controversial this time.

And finally, in June, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced that it had opened an investigation into “matters related to the Israel-Hamas armed conflict,” with the possibility of uncovering “a perpetrator of core international crimes — such as genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity.” This announcement sparked concern among dual Israel-Canadian citizen soldiers. Karmel wrote an in-depth piece on the topic and shares the soldiers' fears.

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

For further reading:

Ministerial panel votes unanimously to recommend firing the attorney general

Smotrich: Gaza will be ‘inseparable part of Israel,’ IDF chief favors ‘security annexation’

Israel to take administrative control over Tomb of Patriarchs for construction work

‘I’m afraid to go home’: Canadian IDF soldiers fear fallout from war crimes probe

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IMAGE: An Israeli settler youth, wearing an anti-disengagement T-shirt that reads: 'A Jew doesn't expel a Jew,' September 27, 2005. (DAVID FURST / AFP)

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing.

0:06.0

Today is Wednesday, July 23rd, day 656 of the war.

0:12.3

Amanda Bouchel, Dan, here with our legal and settlements reporter, Jeremy Sharon,

0:16.3

and with our newly minted political correspondent, Ariela Carmel. Thank you both for joining me.

0:23.1

Thanks, Amanda. Happy to be here. Good to be with you, Amanda.

0:25.7

So Jeremy is going to give us a brief update on the unsurprising results of the vote in the committee to dismiss the Attorney General.

0:34.4

And what are the next steps forward? We'll also learn about the stated reason for

0:39.4

why Israel is taking control of the Tomb of the Patriarch's Holy Site in Chevron. Ariello will fill us in

0:46.6

on what happened yesterday during a Knesset conference called the Gaza Riviera from vision to reality.

0:53.9

And to close out, Arrella will fill us in on a new potential threat facing Canadian-Israeli

1:00.4

soldiers investigations for their actions during the Gaza war when they returned to Canada.

1:07.4

So all of this and more when we're back.

1:15.1

Music So all of this and more, when we're back. What's happening in Ukraine?

1:17.3

What's happening in Middle East?

1:19.5

Those are not isolated conflicts.

1:21.8

The cooperation between these regimes is not ad hoc.

1:26.2

Hi, I'm Manya Marcus, host of what came after.

1:29.5

Join me for a special episode featuring Latvian member of the European Parliament

1:33.4

Reharts Kohl's.

1:34.9

Kohlz and I sat down at the European Parliament in Brussels this past January for an unflinching

1:39.7

look at how Latvia is confronting Russian aggression and how the invasion of Ukraine by a nuclear-armed autocracy

1:45.8

has emboldened other regimes, including China and Iran.

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