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Netanyahu Focuses on Iran Amid Election Campaign · 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: As Israel's October 27 election approaches, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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  Speaker 1: is framing his campaign around what he calls finishing the
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  Speaker 1: job against Iran, highlighting his partnership with US President Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Netanyahu indicated there are two years left of Trump's presidency
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  Speaker 1: to achieve this. Netanyahu stated that Iran and its proxies
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  Speaker 1: are considering ways to influence the vote, warning that any
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  Speaker 1: attempt to do so would be met with overwhelming force.
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  Speaker 1: People on his team, speaking on background, separately told the
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  Speaker 1: Jerusalem Post that current senior defence officials had contacted Netanyahu
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  Speaker 1: to say he needed to win, because Israel's enemies would
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  Speaker 1: see his defeat as their success, describing serious security threats
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  Speaker 1: in the near future. This account of private conversations has
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  Speaker 1: not been independently verified. Meanwhile, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Givia,
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  Speaker 1: in a foreign media interview, called for Israel to occupy
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  Speaker 1: all of Gaza and advocated for Palestinian emigration from the
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  Speaker 1: West Bank, while defending Netanyahu on the October 7 failures.
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  Speaker 1: Yoaz Hendel's Reservists Economic Party is positioning itself as crucial
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  Speaker 1: for coalition formation, stating it will only join Zionist parties
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  Speaker 1: and will not sit with the Haredi parties. Outside polling
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  Speaker 1: stations on election day, Individuals affected by the October 7 disaster,
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  Speaker 1: including Yoshevd Lifshitz and Gil Dickman, plan to urge voters
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  Speaker 1: to remember the victims. In domestic policy, Attorney General Ghali
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  Speaker 1: Baharevmiyara is urging the High Court to restrict financial benefits
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  Speaker 1: for over 110,000 draft evaders, predominantly Haredi men, citing the
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  Speaker 1: IDF's urgent need for personnel amid government inaction. In the
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  Speaker 1: ongoing conflict with Iran and its regional proxies, The IDF
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  Speaker 1: conducted an air-targeted elimination of a senior official from the
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  Speaker 1: Popular Resistance Committees. Mariv reports this Palestinian terror organisation is
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  Speaker 1: linked to Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, and that members of
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  Speaker 1: the group participated in the October 7 raid. The Defence
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  Speaker 1: Ministry has also sanctioned UK-registered Coral Oil for transferring fuel
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  Speaker 1: to Al-Amana, a Hezbollah-owned company, emphasising that fuel sustains the
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  Speaker 1: group's terrorist activities. IDF intelligence continues to provide substantial capabilities
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  Speaker 1: to Saudi Arabia for its operations against the Houthis, with
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  Speaker 1: US mediation, a move seen as serving Israel's interests by
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  Speaker 1: weakening a potential future enemy. Regional escalation was also evident
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  Speaker 1: with reports of two deaths in a drone attack on
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  Speaker 1: a Saudi Aramco oil field. The IDF is also completing
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  Speaker 1: preparations for a potential multi-front scenario involving Iran, Hezbollah and
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  Speaker 1: Shia militias. In the West Bank, the IDF detained approximately
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  Speaker 1: 90 foreign volunteers, including US congressional nominees, who were assisting
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  Speaker 1: Palestinians with olive harvests. Conflicting narratives have emerged regarding the
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  Speaker 1: coordination of the visit between the volunteers, rabbis for human
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  Speaker 1: rights and the IDF, with the military stating that while
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  Speaker 1: most of the area did not require coordination, a portion did.
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  Speaker 1: Addressing the surge in antisemitism, the Jewish Federations of North America, JFNA,
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  Speaker 1: announced a significant $ 35 million initiative. This effort includes hiring
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  Speaker 1: 100 new professionals for advocacy and community relations, aiming to
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  Speaker 1: counter rising hate incidents, which have seen physical assaults reach
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  Speaker 1: record highs following the October 7 attacks. JFNA reported that
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  Speaker 1: Jews were targeted in 64% of religiously motivated hate crimes
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  Speaker 1: last year. Prime Minister Netanyahu visited the Leviathan natural gas platform,
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  Speaker 1: underscoring its role as a strategic national asset. According to
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  Speaker 1: a statement from the Prime Minister's office, cumulative state revenues
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  Speaker 1: from Israel's natural gas and oil sector are projected to
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  Speaker 1: exceed NIS 350 billion, with significant contributions from export agreements,
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  Speaker 1: particularly with Egypt. Domestic production also continues to lower household
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  Speaker 1: energy costs. In a unique development, Budapest has reopened the
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  Speaker 1: historic Wagon Drivers Synagogue, established in 1870, as a space
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  Speaker 1: exclusively for teenagers. The initiative, supported by the C-Teen Youth
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  Speaker 1: Organization and the Association of Hungarian Jewish Communities, may mark
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  Speaker 1: the world's first teen-run synagogue. For continuing coverage of antisemitism
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  Speaker 1: Find it at clockworkmedia.org slash watch. I'm Noah Levi, thank
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