ToI reporter on life under Hezbollah's rain of missiles
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
The Times of Israel
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🗓️ 15 March 2026
⏱️ 27 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.
Health reporter Diana Bletter joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode.
In improved pop-up clinics, underground parking lots converted to wards and fortified operating rooms, hospitals and health clinics around the country are once again providing services under fire since the joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran began on February 28. Bletter tells us about the first instance that a Lebanon threat brought a Galilee hospital underground and talks about emergency preparedness.
In the second half of the program, we drill down into life in the north right now. Bletter talks about what it is like for her personally, as well as reporting on the stalwart northerners who are maintaining Israel's pioneering spirit and staying rooted on the frontline.
Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing liveblog for more updates.
For further reading:
From fortified ORs to popup clinics, Israel’s medical centers streamline wartime operations
Under a rain of Hezbollah missiles, determined northern farmers still sow for the future
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IMAGE: An Israeli artillery unit deployed at a position in the upper Galilee in northern Israel near the Lebanon border, fires towards southern Lebanon on March 14, 2026. (JALAA MAREY / AFP)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing. |
| 0:06.8 | Today is Sunday, March 15th. |
| 0:08.8 | I am Amanda Borchelle Dan, joining you from Jerusalem |
| 0:11.5 | with our medical and northern reporter Diana Blutter in the North. |
| 0:16.4 | Diana, thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 0:18.5 | Thank you for having me, Amanda. |
| 0:20.4 | It is such a pleasure, |
| 0:21.6 | and I know I'm catching you after a siren, 100% sure before a siren as well. Since midnight, |
| 0:28.8 | we have had six ballistic missiles sent from Iran and dozens, if not even a hundred rockets sent |
| 0:35.3 | from Lebanon from the Hezbollah terrorist organization. |
| 0:39.4 | So Diana is here and she is going to explain what it is like to live and report in the North right now, |
| 0:45.4 | as well as what our health medical preparedness is like during the state of war. |
| 0:52.6 | So all of this and more when we're back. |
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