Day 727 - Gaza-bound flotilla intercepted in complex Yom Kippur op
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
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🗓️ 2 October 2025
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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.
Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode.
Two people were killed and three seriously injured when a man drove a car into people outside a packed Orthodox synagogue in Manchester, northern England, on Thursday and then began stabbing them, in a terror attack on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year. The rabbi leading Yom Kippur services at the Manchester synagogue targeted in a deadly terror attack was hailed as a hero, with eyewitnesses describing how he helped protect congregants.
Fabian begins the program with some updates from Gaza where an IDF officer was seriously wounded and two other troops, including a reservist, were lightly injured by gunfire during fighting in the central Strip earlier today. He reports on the five rockets that were launched by Hamas from northern Gaza toward Ashdod last night, with four intercepted by air defenses and one hitting an open area.
Israel’s navy intercepted what remained of the 47-boat Global Sumud Flotilla attempting to break its maritime blockade on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. We will hear about this Yom Kippur operation that ended around 2 pm today.
Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing liveblog for more updates.
For further reading:
2 killed, 4 seriously injured in Yom Kippur attack at UK synagogue; terrorist shot dead
Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla, says blockade not breached; Thunberg, others detained
Hamas fires 5 rockets from Gaza on Yom Kippur, triggering sirens in Ashdod; no injuries
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IMAGE: Activists in orange life jackets sit aboard a Gaza-bound Sumud flotilla boat as Israeli navy soldiers sail it into the port of Ashdod, Israel, October 2, 2025, after it was intercepted while approaching the Gaza coast. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing. |
| 0:09.3 | Today's Thursday, October 2nd, Day 727 of the war. |
| 0:15.1 | Amanda Borchelle, Dan here with our military correspondent, Immanuel Fabian, with a short post-Yom Kippur update. |
| 0:21.7 | Hi, Manny. |
| 0:22.1 | Thanks so much for joining me. |
| 0:23.4 | Hi, Amanda. |
| 0:24.1 | Israel's Navy intercepted the large flotilla that was attempting to break its maritime blockade |
| 0:29.7 | on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. |
| 0:31.5 | We'll hear all about this Yom Kippur operation that ended around 2 p.m. today, as well as other updates from Gaza. All this and more |
| 0:40.6 | when we're back. It was Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks who said, to defend a country, you need an army, |
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| 1:09.9 | and instead embrace the richness |
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| 1:17.2 | shows how Torah's simplest lessons like love your neighbor as yourself and the practice of |
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