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The Houthis are attempting to have as much damage and casualties in Israel as they can.

You remember how the banner of the Houthis looks like, Dan.

There are slogans there about death to Israel.

This is what they want. This is not an escalation as to their intent. And you should always measure intent.

And there is a lesson here. And Israel has learned that lesson on October 7 as to Hamas and Gaza.

And that lesson is how difficult it is

if you don't tackle it when it's still small. And the world has allowed the Houthi problem to grow and grow.

It's 11 a.m. on Sunday, May 4th here in New York City. It is 6 p.m. on Sunday, May 4th in Israel.

Per our usual programming schedule, we will be releasing an episode, planned late tonight for Monday morning,

but we wanted to offer a quick update about something we all care about.

Israel's Benghuryan airport being hit with the Houthi missile earlier today,

leading to a number of airlines announcing that they will be halting their flights to Israel.

With me is Nadav Ayal, senior analyst at Yiddhiot Akronaut.

Nadav, what can you tell us about this strike today at Bangorian Airport?

So at about 9.30 today in Israel, 9.30 a.m. There were sirens across the country as a result of a missile, a ballistic missile, shot by the Houthis towards Israel.

And right afterwards, it's not exactly right afterwards because there's flight time all the way from Yemen,

there was a very loud blast heard across the central region in Israel and close to the Ben-Gurion Airport.

This missile hit the premises of the Ben-Gurion airport, and there were a ton of videos, both by people driving in the roads leading to the Ben-Gurion Airport or near the Ben-Gurion Airport and also from the airport.

By the way, also of foreign crew of foreign airlines that were there at the airport near the

planes. Now, this missile did not hit any plane, either landing or stationed at the Begunian

airport. There were three people injured, but the fact that the missile actually landed at the airport is meaningful and

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