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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - September 5, 2026, 09 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: We begin with developments in Israeli domestic politics, where an
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  Speaker 1: anti-government activist is expected to be indicted on charges of
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  Speaker 1: incitement to terror. According to the Times of Israel, Yolanda Yava,
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  Speaker 1: a lecturer at Tel Aviv University, faces trial for social
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  Speaker 1: media posts allegedly inciting violence against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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  Speaker 1: The posts reportedly called for a real rebellion and referenced
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  Speaker 1: the Romanian revolution that led to the execution of Nicolae Sosiscu.
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  Speaker 1: The decision to proceed with the indictment, pending a hearing,
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  Speaker 1: was made by Attorney General Gali Baharavmiara and State Attorney
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  Speaker 1: Armen Aceman. However, the move has drawn criticism, with an
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  Speaker 1: unnamed source close to Java telling Channel 13 that Netanyahu's
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  Speaker 1: Likud party exerted pressure on the legal officials. Java's attorney,
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  Speaker 1: Oshrat Kerma, accused the legal officials of pushing the case
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  Speaker 1: through immediately following a request from Likud, stating, There is
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  Speaker 1: no doubt that the motives here are political. In other
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  Speaker 1: domestic political news, Rabbi Dov Lando, the spiritual leader of
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  Speaker 1: the ultra-Orthodox Dijel Hartora party, has orchestrated the departure of
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  Speaker 1: two party members from the Knesset, M.K. Mosh Gafni and
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  Speaker 1: Rabbi Yuri Maklev. Jpost.com reports that Rabbi Lando cited the
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  Speaker 1: need to refresh the party's presence. Gafni and Maklev have
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  Speaker 1: been involved in advocating for the contentious basic law, Torah
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  Speaker 1: study bill. This comes after Rabbi Lando previously expressed a
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  Speaker 1: loss of trust in Prime Minister Netanyahu. Advocating for the
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  Speaker 1: dissolution of the Knesset over the Haredi conscription bill, turning
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  Speaker 1: to regional security, UNIT reports on the covert activities of
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  Speaker 1: Unit 570, a secret Israeli air force unit. Troops from
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  Speaker 1: this unit have been involved in preparing clandestine landing strips
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  Speaker 1: far beyond Israel's borders. and guiding Hercules aircraft through darkness
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  Speaker 1: and hostile terrain to enable air force missions in areas
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  Speaker 1: where Israeli forces have rarely operated. Finally, an opinion piece
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  Speaker 1: from jpost.com questions the political weight of a recent poll
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  Speaker 1: surveying 804 American Jews on Israeli elections, while a majority
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  Speaker 1: of respondents preferred Israel's opposition to defeat the current governing coalition.
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  Speaker 1: The piece highlights that the majority of these individuals cannot
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  Speaker 1: vote in Israel. Their political preferences, the piece notes, closely
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  Speaker 1: track their American political identities, with only 8% of those
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  Speaker 1: surveyed being Israeli citizens eligible to vote in the country.
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  Speaker 1: The author questions why the political preferences of Americans who
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  Speaker 1: cannot vote in Israel should be measured as though they
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  Speaker 1: constitute a meaningful constituency in an Israeli election. I'm Noah Levi,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for listening to Israel Today ongoing war report.
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  Speaker 1: Keep in mind that this AI-generated report may contain occasional inaccuracies,
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