Day 839 - Report exposes unfit jail conditions for Palestinian offenders

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🗓️ 22 January 2026

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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 correspondent Jeremy Sharon joins host Jessica Steinberg for today's episode.

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After the Public Defender’s Office of the Justice Ministry was forced to reveal reports about visits to four prisons in 2024, showing systematic violence and unsanitary conditions for Palestinian detainees, Sharon discusses the disturbing findings and the yearlong battle by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel to get ahold of the report and make it public.

Sharon also reports on a rally last week’s at which protesters demanded the enlistment of ultra-Orthodox Jews. He describes the sense of solidarity at the Jerusalem gathering, where thousands of people from the secular and national religious camps spoke out against government-backed legislation seeking to reinstate blanket military service exemptions for ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students.

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For further reading:

Palestinians in Israeli jails face ‘conditions unfit for human beings,’ state agency says

Thousands rally in Jerusalem to demand ultra-Orthodox IDF enlistment

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IMAGE: Handcuffed Hamas terrorists sit next to a picture of Palestinians walking past destroyed buildings in the Gaza Strip and an Israeli flag, in a prison in central Israel, May 6, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing. It is Thursday, January 22nd. I'm
0:08.5	Jessica Steinberg. I'm speaking today with legal affairs correspondent Jeremy Sharon. Hi, Jeremy. Good
0:14.2	morning. Hey, good morning, Jessica. Hey there. It is day 839 of the war. Arab leadership in Israel has declared a nationwide general strike over the police's failure
0:25.8	to stem the surging violent crime wave that has been happening in the community for several
0:31.8	years, coming to a peak in the last months.
0:36.3	Nearly all Arab cities and towns across Israel are shutting down today
0:39.3	as part of the protest action. We will look at some different headlines. The findings of the
0:45.5	public defender's office about the state of Palestinians in Israeli jails. And on a different note,
0:53.9	a rally that Jeremy covered recently that resonates
0:57.5	very strongly demanding ultra-Orthodox enlistment to the Israel Defense Forces to the IDF.
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