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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - September 29, 2026, 07 PM 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: As the nation navigates complex security and domestic challenges, we
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  Speaker 1: bring you the essential updates. In Gaza, an Israeli airstrike
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  Speaker 1: has killed the head of Hamas's armed wing in the
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  Speaker 1: north of the Strip, a significant development impacting the militant
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  Speaker 1: group's leadership and operational capacity, according to officials on both sides. Domestically,
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  Speaker 1: thousands of ultra-Orthodox demonstrators marched in Jerusalem protesting military conscription,
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  Speaker 1: celebrating the release of draft evaders. Organised by an extremist faction,
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  Speaker 1: the march featured signs denouncing the IDF and Zionism. This
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  Speaker 1: has drawn sharp criticism from opposition leaders, who are linking
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  Speaker 1: the demonstrations to the upcoming elections and what they describe
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  Speaker 1: as a government of evasion. Opposition leader Yair Lapid also
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  Speaker 1: addressed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's warnings of potential enemy attacks
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  Speaker 1: before the elections, stating security threats must be handled professionally
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  Speaker 1: and not used as election campaign backdrops. Meanwhile, revelations continue
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  Speaker 1: to emerge regarding the lead-up to the October 7 attacks. Sources,
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  Speaker 1: including former Shin Bet-Hed Ronan Bar, who is suing the
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister for defamation, allege that Prime Minister Netanyahu received
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  Speaker 1: multiple warnings of an impending Hamas strike. claims the Prime
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  Speaker 1: Minister denies. Adding to the political discourse, the Arab Majority
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  Speaker 1: Joint List Party has faced scrutiny for its response to
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  Speaker 1: a Likud campaign poster, reportedly replying Palestine to the slogan
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  Speaker 1: Yamin or Falastin. Internationally, concerns are growing over actions impacting
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  Speaker 1: Jewish communities. In the Netherlands, the government's recent ban on
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  Speaker 1: the entry of all Jewish-made goods from the West Bank,
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  Speaker 1: East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights has sparked diplomatic discussions.
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  Speaker 1: Jigal Markasoa, president of the Jewish communities in the Netherlands,
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  Speaker 1: told the Jerusalem Post that the ban and other incidents
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  Speaker 1: suggest the Netherlands is leading in efforts to complicate life
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  Speaker 1: for Jewish people and visitors from Israel, warning of increasing
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  Speaker 1: pressure and a tendency to repeat Hamas media information without
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  Speaker 1: proper understanding. He noted that a significant portion of Jews
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  Speaker 1: in the Netherlands are now Israeli. Turning to regional tensions,
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  Speaker 1: Syrian internal security forces announced they have dismantled a three-person
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  Speaker 1: Hezbollah cell in the Yarmouk Basin, Daraa area, which they
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  Speaker 1: claim was planning sabotage and preparing rocket launch platforms. On
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  Speaker 1: the economic front, Iran's currency has collapsed to a new
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  Speaker 1: historic low, trading at over 2.5 million rials to one
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  Speaker 1: US dollar, marking a significant depreciation in recent weeks. From Washington,
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  Speaker 1: US President Donald Trump reiterated his administration's central objective, preventing
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  Speaker 1: Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. He stated that Iran
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  Speaker 1: will give up its nuclear ambitions, attributing past failures to
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  Speaker 1: halt North Korea's programme to previous presidents. President Trump also
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  Speaker 1: commented on an investigation near a British airbase used by
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  Speaker 1: US forces, criticising the decision to release five arrested individuals
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  Speaker 1: on bail, calling them seriously bad people. In Israeli economic news,
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  Speaker 1: Finance Minister Bates Arlel Smotrich announced measures to decrease fuel
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  Speaker 1: taxes and deepen subsidies. This move aims to prevent gasoline
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  Speaker 1: prices from reaching an all-time high of 8.27 shekels per litre,
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  Speaker 1: a decision noted as having been previously deemed, unwise, by
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  Speaker 1: the Treasury's professional echelon amidst rising global fuel costs. And finally,
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  Speaker 1: a personal reflection on past immigration. One report shares the
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  Speaker 1: poignant experience of a Soviet Jewish refugee's childhood in America,
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  Speaker 1: detailing the family's struggle with Jewish identity under traditional law
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  Speaker 1: due to the author's non-Jewish mother, and the elaborate steps
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  Speaker 1: taken to conceal this so she could attend a Jewish school.
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  Speaker 1: For continuing coverage of antisemitism around the world, listen to
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  Speaker 1: Antisemitism Watch from Clockwork Media. Find it at clockworkmedia.org slash watch.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Noah Levi, thank you for listening to Israel Today
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