Day 774 - Can a governmental probe into Oct. 7 be independent?
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
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🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 26 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 correspondent Jeremy Sharon joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode.
Justice Minister Yariv Levin of the ruling Likud party will head a ministerial panel to determine the mandate of the government’s commission of inquiry into failures surrounding the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023. Since the murders and atrocities, the government has resisted establishing an investigative body to thoroughly examine how such a disastrous military calamity could befall the country. We discuss first why the change of heart and ask whether the commission will be independent.
Security forces and Civil Administration personnel on Monday conducted an evacuation and demolition operation against an illegal settlement outpost in the Gush Etzion region of the West Bank, in an apparent response to accusations from a local council head that there was “anarchy” in the area. Sharon delves into several reasons why this evacuation is significant, especially under the current coalition.
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IMAGE: A candle bearing the portrait of 24-year-old Yulia Chaban, who was killed on the beach in Zikim during Hamas' October 7, 2023, attacks, is left inside a bomb shelter on the beach in the southern Israeli Kibbutz of Zikim, the closest Israeli beach to the Gaza Strip, on October 16, 2025. (Maya Levin / AFP)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing. Today's Tuesday, November 18th, day 774 of the war. |
| 0:12.1 | Amanda Borschell done here with our legal and settlements reporter, Jeremy Sharon. |
| 0:16.6 | Jeremy, it's been a while since we've spoken. Good to have you. |
| 0:19.9 | It has, and I have to say I've missed you. |
| 0:21.9 | I've missed you, too, but I do see you around the officer, at least on Zoom meeting. So we will be |
| 0:28.3 | entering both of Jeremy's fields today and speaking about a newly announced governmental |
| 0:33.1 | commission of inquiry into the failures leading up to the October 7, 23 Hamas onslaught into |
| 0:40.2 | southern Israel that left 1,200 slain and 250 taken hostage to Gaza, sparking the war in the |
| 0:48.5 | strip. We will also speak about a rare government-ordered evacuation of a quote-unquote anarchic illegal settlement |
| 0:56.5 | outpost. All this and more when we're back. |
| 1:03.9 | I'm still so in awe of young Israeli on that campus who was just harassed beyond belief. |
| 1:09.3 | He was spit on. He had a poster for his |
| 1:11.5 | piano concert and they blacked out his eyes and said Hitler should have finished. It was beyond |
| 1:16.4 | disgusting. Hi, I'm Manya Marcus, host of what came after. This September, I sat down in New York |
| 1:23.2 | City with D. Margulies, a staff attorney at the Lewis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights |
| 1:28.3 | Under Law. We talked about Dina's legal work defending individuals who have been targeted |
| 1:33.1 | for their Jewish or Zionist identity in schools and universities, particularly in the wake |
| 1:38.5 | of October 7th. He was popular before October 7th. He didn't change. |
| 1:47.4 | The school changed their perception of him after an atrocity. |
| 1:48.7 | He had lost people. |
| 1:50.5 | He had to go to funerals remotely. |
| 1:52.9 | And there was no showing of compassion for him. |
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