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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - September 8, 2026, 09 AM Eastern · Israel Today: Ongoing War Report

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Israel Today ongoing war report. I'm Noah Levi.
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  Speaker 1: In a significant intelligence operation, Mossad successfully targeted Hezbollah operatives
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  Speaker 1: across Lebanon on September 17th. Reports detail the simultaneous explosion
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  Speaker 1: of pagers, walkie-talkies and cell phones used to alert Hezbollah members.
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  Speaker 1: The operation, described by General David Petrius, as the most
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  Speaker 1: impressive supply chain operation in modern intelligence history, resulted in
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  Speaker 1: the deaths or injuries of approximately 3,500 operatives, with a
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  Speaker 1: small number of civilian casualties. Prime Minister Netanyahu noted the
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  Speaker 1: precision targeting of command and control positions. The following day,
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  Speaker 1: further explosions from other devices affected another 500 operatives. On
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  Speaker 1: the diplomatic and economic front, a growing number of European
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  Speaker 1: nations are enacting bans on products from Israeli settlements in
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  Speaker 1: the West Bank. The UK, through Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband,
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  Speaker 1: has announced an import ban and sanctions against individuals and
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  Speaker 1: businesses involved in settlement expansion, coordinated with France and Canada.
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  Speaker 1: French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrett stated France will launch a
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  Speaker 1: process to ban settlement goods, citing rising settler violence and
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  Speaker 1: frenzied expansion as undermining prospects for a two-state solution. A
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  Speaker 1: total of 12 countries, including Denmark, Spain and Sweden, have
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  Speaker 1: announced similar national bans on trade, with what they term
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  Speaker 1: illegal Israeli settlements. In response to these measures, US Congressman
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  Speaker 1: Randy Fine has warned that Florida may boycott British businesses,
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  Speaker 1: referencing the state's anti-BDS laws and a potential economic impact
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  Speaker 1: in the billions of dollars. Meanwhile in Gaza City, Gazan
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  Speaker 1: journalists reported that Israel issued an evacuation warning for an
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  Speaker 1: area adjacent to the maternity building of al-Shifa Hospital, raising
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  Speaker 1: concerns about the impact on vulnerable populations. and critical medical infrastructure.
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  Speaker 1: In Germany, the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, party
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  Speaker 1: has secured a victory in Saxony-Anhalt's regional election, raising concerns
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  Speaker 1: within Germany's Jewish community and among experts regarding the future
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  Speaker 1: of Holocaust remembrance and potential cooperation with the party. Elsewhere,
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  Speaker 1: Yaakov Hagel, chairman of the World Zionist Organization, predicts demographic
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  Speaker 1: shifts could soon make Israel home to the majority of
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  Speaker 1: the global Jewish population. attributing this to a renewed search
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  Speaker 1: for Jewish identity among young diaspora Jews following the October
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  Speaker 1: 7th attacks. Domestically, Israel's High Court of Justice has voided
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  Speaker 1: three senior appointments to the Second Authority Council, citing Prime
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  Speaker 1: Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's violation of his conflict of interest agreement
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  Speaker 1: and flaws in the vetting process. In polling news, a
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  Speaker 1: Mariv poll suggests the opposition bloc could gain a Knesset
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  Speaker 1: majority if certain joint slates join. while Prime Minister Netanyahu's
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  Speaker 1: coalition would see its seats reduced. Additionally, new leak testimony
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  Speaker 1: provides IDF Colonel Notchie Mendel's account of the World Central
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  Speaker 1: Kitchen convoy targeting, where he described aid workers as mixed
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  Speaker 1: together with Hamas militants, a statement that appears to challenge
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  Speaker 1: the IDF's previous explanation for not prosecuting him. Finally, concerning education,
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  Speaker 1: Israel has recorded its worst-ever results in the International Programme
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  Speaker 1: for International Student Assessment, or PISA. Education ministry officials have
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  Speaker 1: described the findings, which show significant drops in rankings for science,
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  Speaker 1: reading and mathematics, as a catastrophic event on a historic scale.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Noah Levi, thank you for listening to Israel Today
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