Day 702 - Genocide claims based on false data, Israeli academics allege
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
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🗓️ 7 September 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.
Legal and settlements reporter Jeremy Sharon joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode.
A new study conducted by a team of Israeli multidisciplinary researchers delves into accusations that Israel committed crimes against humanity, such as planned starvation and genocide during the war in Gaza. The authors’ objective was to conduct a rigorous factual analysis of the methodologies and evidence behind genocide claims. Sharon fills us in on how faulty source data used by reports accusing Israel of genocide may be partly to blame.
Greta Thunberg has again set sail for Gaza on another so-called peace flotilla. We learn about the legalities of Israel's eventual interception and deportation of the crew.
The High Court of Justice decided unanimously last week on Monday to recommend to the government that it cancel its decision to fire Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara. The court told the government to inform it by September 14 whether it accepted the court’s recommendation to abolish the new method for firing the attorney general that the government established in June, and by extension to cancel the dismissal of Baharav-Miara. The clock is ticking. What are the next potential moves?
A kindergarten was opened in the illegal settlement outpost of Homesh on Monday, 20 years after it was evacuated under the 2005 disengagement plan, in a step that was praised by Education Minister Yoav Kisch and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich as boosting Israel’s control over the West Bank. Sharon delves into what this overt government support represents.
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New kindergarten established at West Bank outpost evacuated under 2005 disengagement
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IMAGE: Displaced Palestinians fleeing northern Gaza carry their belongings along the coastal road toward southern Gaza, September 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing. |
| 0:06.3 | Today is Sunday, September 7th, Day 702 or 23 months of the war. |
| 0:13.7 | Amanda Borchelle, Dan here with our legal and settlements reporter Jeremy Sharon. |
| 0:17.7 | Hi, Jeremy. Thanks for joining me today. |
| 0:19.5 | Good to be with you, Amanda. |
| 0:20.6 | Always. |
| 0:21.5 | Jeremy will give us a preview of a piece he's working on about a new Israel-based report |
| 0:26.2 | that attempts to refute allegations of genocide in Gaza. Greta Thunberg has again set sail for |
| 0:33.5 | Gaza on another so-called peace flotilla, we'll learn about the legalities of |
| 0:39.2 | Israel turning them back. |
| 0:41.3 | We'll hear an update on the government's efforts |
| 0:43.4 | to oust the Attorney General |
| 0:45.1 | and finish off with a new |
| 0:46.8 | star-studded opening of a kindergarten |
| 0:49.4 | in the illegal West Bank settlement |
| 0:51.3 | of Homish. All of this |
| 0:53.7 | and more when we're back. |
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| 1:20.1 | Monday, dive into Sephirbray shit with Dean Rachel Friedman and jump into Torah commentators |
| 1:25.6 | with Rabbi Chaim Angel. On Tuesdays, sharpen |
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