Israeli jets strike Yemen port in effort to stop the Houthis

The Times of Israel Daily Briefing

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🗓️ 6 May 2025

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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.

Times of Israel founding editor David Horovitz joins host Jessica Steinberg for today's episode.

Horovitz discusses the Israeli Air Force missile attack on the Yemen port, in response to the Houthi missile that hit Israel's Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday morning, and the ongoing bafflement about how to handle the challenge presented by the Iran-backed Houthis, and one that isn't going to fade.

He discusses the mood in the country as thousands of reservists are called up again to fight in Gaza, as polls show that two-thirds of Israelis would be prepared to stop fighting to bring the remaining hostages home. Horovitz notes that the language used by the government and army are subtle with an unclear plan in Gaza and an unpredictable US administration.

Horovitz also offers a brief look at the latest regarding the cabinet decision against a state commission probing October 7, as the attorney general had suggested. He notes that there is domestic concern on the part of the public who want to be sure that a disaster of that scope will never happen again and the concern that Israel will be able to defend itself internationally with the proper scrutiny into what took place on that day.

Finally, Horovitz comments on remarks made by US Mideast envoy Steve Witfkoff at an Israel Independence Day event at the US Embassy in Washington, DC, and his clear message that Israel needs to be united despite all the pressures from the outside and inside.

IMAGE: An Israeli reservist kissing his wife and child goodbye as he leaves for reserve duty, in Jerusalem, May 5, 2025. (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to the Times of Israel's Daily Briefing. It is Tuesday, May 6th, and I'm Jessica Steinberg.
0:08.3	I'm speaking today with Times Visual founding editor David Horowitz. Hi, David. Hey, Jessica Hey,
0:13.8	Dave. Okay. It is day 578 of the war. A top Hamas official was reported as to have said this morning that there is,
0:23.1	quote, no sense in continuing the hostage ceasefire talks while the, quote, hunger war continues
0:29.8	in Gaza. The aid embargo has entered its third month. We'll talk about the Israeli strike in
0:36.7	Yemen last night following a Houthi missile
0:39.3	that hit Bangorian airport on Sunday. What is the latest in Gaza? And the cabinet, the Israeli
0:46.6	cabinet's rejection of the attorney general's call for a state commission probe of October 7th.
0:53.0	We'll also talk about some comments made by U.S.
0:56.1	Special Envoy to the Mid-East, Steve Whitkoff. So stay with us.
1:05.2	Tolkien's trilogy was a perfect book to send to a POW. Very well-defined good and evil, and it was a great escape
1:15.6	from the physical environment that we were in. It's November 16, 1973, and we're at the military
1:22.6	section of the Lode Airport. A red and white, DC-6 passenger plane lands, and out of it comes a stream of young men.
1:30.2	Ten men known collectively as Shvuyi Milchamitatasha, the POWs of the War of Attrition.
1:37.3	All of them had been held, most of the time together, in an Egyptian prison for more than three
1:42.3	and a half years. So it was very much a kibbutz.
1:46.7	I want to draw your attention to a small, tattered bag, Menachemani is holding.
1:51.4	That brown knapsack actually held a treasure.
1:54.4	A manuscript that would make these men in their unlikely story momentarily famous.
1:59.4	It was the fruit of their communal work during the years in which they were held in one of
2:03.6	Egypt's most notorious dungeons.
2:06.6	The Hebrew translation of The Hobbit.
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