Golders Green terror shows rising threat to world Jews
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
The Times of Israel
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
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.
ToI founding editor David Horovitz joins host Jessica Steinberg for today's episode.
As the US and Iran continue talks regarding a permanent deal, Horovitz says the regime feels it has established control over the Strait of Hormuz and views the US as vulnerable.
Horovitz discusses the deal-making tendencies of Trump, a way of thinking that ultimately worked in favor of the Hamas hostage deal, but is harder to achieve with the dilemmas in Iran, with Hezbollah in Lebanon and with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Following Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's recent comment that former prime minister Naftali Bennett’s decision to include the Islamist Ra’am party in his 2021-2022 government was far worse than the governmental failures tied to Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught, Horovitz comments on the level of political hostility and the absence of empathy among Netanyahu's government for all the bereaved Israelis and hostage families.
Finally, Horovitz reflects on the recent Golders Green stabbing attack, an iteration of the antisemitic attacks happening all over the Jewish diaspora, and how the British government has handled the situation.
Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing liveblog for more updates.
For further reading:
US, Iran said closing in on framework for permanent deal, as Trump renews bomb threats
Board of Peace won’t hold Israel to truce terms if Hamas doesn’t okay disarmament offer
Smotrich: Including Arab party in government ‘a thousand times’ worse than Oct. 7 failures
Subscribe to The Times of Israel Daily Briefing on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode was produced by Yitzchak Ledee.
IMAGE: ToI founding editor David Horovitz joins host Jessica Steinberg on today's Daily Briefing podcast. (ToI)
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to the Times Visual's Daily Briefing. It is Thursday, May 7th. I'm Jessica Steinberg, |
| 0:08.7 | here today with Times Visual founding editor, David Horowitz. Hi, David. Good morning. |
| 0:13.7 | Hi, you're doing okay. This morning, just a brief look at headlines. Iran, of course, |
| 0:22.2 | U.S. President Donald Trump is predicting that the war will be over quickly as the U.S. and Iran are said to be closing in on our framework for a permanent deal. |
| 0:30.9 | This morning, Chazbalah launched rockets at Israeli troops stationed in Lebanon. |
| 0:36.0 | The IDF, we've spoken about this in earlier podcast this |
| 0:39.2 | week, the IDF is entrenching its grip on southern Lebanon. We will talk about the latest with Iran, |
| 0:46.5 | some comments by Finance Minister Bitzalos Motritch, the latest with Prime Minister Benjamin |
| 0:52.2 | Netanyahu specifically regarding to President Trump and Iran. |
| 0:56.2 | And David's thoughts about the attacks in Golders Green, a place that he knows quite well. |
| 1:02.2 | So stay with us. |
| 1:09.8 | I believe the world is fundamentally perfect and the world is fundamentally broken. |
| 1:15.3 | This is adapting the future of Jewish education. |
| 1:18.0 | Join me, Samantha Vinicor Mindrat of the Jewish Education Project and CEO David Breitman every week with an expert guest as we discuss the biggest challenges, nuances, and opportunities in Jewish |
| 1:27.8 | education. Israel is a miracle, but Israel is also a country. |
| 1:32.4 | Here is the thing. I think Iranian Jews are the way American Jews were in the 1960s and early 70s. |
| 1:40.0 | Adapting isn't just a podcast. It's where the boldest ideas for securing our Jewish |
| 1:43.9 | future through the power of education come to life. |
| 1:46.9 | Listen wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:52.6 | Okay, David, let's start with Iran because that's obviously what's on everyone's mind. |
| 2:03.2 | There's what President Trump is saying. |
| 2:05.6 | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed last night after a security cabinet meeting |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Times of Israel, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Times of Israel and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.