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Israel Leaders Denounce Nobel Peace Prize Award · 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 Israeli domestic politics, President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister
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  Speaker 1: Benjamin Netanyahu have strongly condemned the awarding of the Nobel
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  Speaker 1: Peace Prize to South African judge Navaneth Mpile. President Herzog
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  Speaker 1: called the decision an affront to any life-affirming, peace-loving people,
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  Speaker 1: and a cynical decision to which celebrates a shameful display
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  Speaker 1: of moral erosion. He stated this as he awarded the
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  Speaker 1: Presidential Medal of Honour to Israel Bonds, an organisation he
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  Speaker 1: praised for its work in developing Israel's economy since the
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  Speaker 1: October 7 massacre. During his remarks, Herzog also acknowledged the
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  Speaker 1: tragedy in northern Israel earlier that day, where a Hezbollah
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  Speaker 1: bomb explosion killed one teenager and injured dozens more, offering
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  Speaker 1: prayers for the injured. Prime Minister Netanyahu's office responded on X,
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  Speaker 1: calling Pillay a bigot, and the prize committee, misguided, stating
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  Speaker 1: that the committee has lost its moral compass by honouring
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  Speaker 1: someone who allegedly built her career around inventing and propagating
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  Speaker 1: blood libels against the only Jewish state. In the United States,
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement evacuated the Betty and Marvin Zale Early Childhood
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  Speaker 1: Learning Centre, a Jewish preschool in Boca Raton, Florida, following
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  Speaker 1: a bomb threat. At least one other nearby educational facility
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  Speaker 1: was also evacuated. A student from the adjacent Katz Yeshiva
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  Speaker 1: High School described the disruption, with traffic blocked and students
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  Speaker 1: told to remain indoors. While local law enforcement has not
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  Speaker 1: yet confirmed finding any suspicious items, the non-profit Stop Antisemitism
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  Speaker 1: condemned the incident on X, writing, No child should have
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  Speaker 1: to face this kind of terror at school, and calling
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  Speaker 1: for the perpetrators to be prosecuted. Separately, an Ethiopian Airlines
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  Speaker 1: cargo flight was forced to return to Addis Ababa, and
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  Speaker 1: dump fuel over the sea after Israel, identified an Indonesian
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  Speaker 1: pilot on board. This incident occurred despite increased security measures
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  Speaker 1: implemented following a previous hijacking attempt, as crew information was
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  Speaker 1: reportedly received only after the flight had taken off. For
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