Lebanon and Israel get talking, with shared goal to disarm Hezbollah
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
The Times of Israel
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🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 23 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.
ToI founding editor David Horovitz joins host Jessica Steinberg for today's episode.
As Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, Horovitz discusses comments made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his pre-recorded speech at Yad Vashem, in which he focused on the blows dealt to the Iranian regime by Israel and the US on behalf of the free world.
While mediators aim to maneuver the US and Iran back to talks, Horovitz reviews the gaps between Tehran and Washington, the newly declared US naval blockade on Iran, and the acute dangers of the patient, malevolent regime's survival.
With Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors heading to a first, single meeting on Tuesday in Washington, Horovitz notes that both sides have the same goal, disarming Hezbollah, while the terrorist army wants to stop the talks.
Finally, Horovitz briefly discusses Peter Magyar's landslide victory in Hungary, a blow for US President Donald Trump and the Israeli premier, creating a shift, too, in the EU.
Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing liveblog for more updates.
For further reading:
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Officials seek to temper expectations as Israel, Lebanon envoys set to hold historic meeting
Hungary’s PM-elect vows return to ICC, but stresses ‘special relationship’ with Israel
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to the Times of Visual's Daily Briefing. It is Tuesday, April 14th, and I'm |
| 0:08.5 | Jessica Steinberg speaking today with Times Visual founding editor David Horowitz. Good morning, David. |
| 0:14.2 | Hi, Jessica. How you do? Okay. How are you? Okay, thank you. What do we have today? We are speaking |
| 0:19.0 | right after the two-minute. Siren sounded for Holocaust |
| 0:22.3 | Remembrance Day here in Israel. There are 111,000 survivors living in Israel, according to figures |
| 0:29.3 | released on Sunday. All the survivors in Israel are at least 80 years old. We'll speak about |
| 0:36.0 | some of the messaging in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's |
| 0:39.1 | recorded speech from Yad Vashem, as well as the latest with talks with Iran, the first meetings |
| 0:45.7 | that are scheduled today in the U.S. between Israel and Lebanon, and what we're hearing from Hungary |
| 0:52.5 | and the recent election. |
| 0:55.3 | So stay with us. |
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