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Diplomatic Tensions, Hostage Escape, and Religious Controversy · 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 international news, Britain is reportedly considering expelling 27 Israeli diplomats.
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  Speaker 1: This development follows a failure by a British national security
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  Speaker 1: advisor to persuade Israel to delay the closure of its
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  Speaker 1: consulate in East Jerusalem. Israeli officials have warned that any
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  Speaker 1: such move against Israel will be met with a reciprocal response.
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  Speaker 1: we have a deeply personal account from former hostage Avinat Anor,
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  Speaker 1: who detailed his harrowing six-month escape attempt from Hamas captivity
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  Speaker 1: in Gaza. Or told N12' s Avda that he utilised improvised
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  Speaker 1: tools and a garbage bag to conceal himself from security
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  Speaker 1: cameras as he dug through a sandbag wall. He described
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  Speaker 1: preparing a bag with found items and writing letters to
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  Speaker 1: his parents. Though he eventually broke through, he was recaptured
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  Speaker 1: and subsequently faced severe torture starvation and beatings before his
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  Speaker 1: eventual release. In a chilling exchange, Orr recounted a Hamas
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  Speaker 1: terrorist telling him Israel would suffer another October 7th, to
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  Speaker 1: which Orr defiantly responded that Gaza, like Israel, was his
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  Speaker 1: home and he would not leave. Domestically, controversial remarks by
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  Speaker 1: Rabbi Dov Lando, a senior leader of the Lithuanian Haredi community,
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  Speaker 1: have drawn widespread condemnation. In a video, Rabbi Lando reportedly
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  Speaker 1: criticised religious Zionism, the founders of Israel and secular Israelis.
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  Speaker 1: He questioned the necessity of Jewish sovereignty, suggesting Arab rule
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  Speaker 1: would have been preferable, and claimed Zionism caused Arabs to
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  Speaker 1: hate Jews. Gadi Eisenkot, head of the Yashar party, called
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  Speaker 1: the statements slanderous and anti-Zionism in its purest form. Avigdor Liberman,
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  Speaker 1: chairman of Yisrael Bey Teinu, also criticised Lando's stance, particularly
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  Speaker 1: on the Haredi draft issue. Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett
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  Speaker 1: also responded to the rabbi's statements. Former hostage Emily Damery
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  Speaker 1: has spoken out forcefully against those who deny or distort
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  Speaker 1: the atrocities committed on October 7th. Approaching the third anniversary
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  Speaker 1: of the massacre, Damery called it a planned terrorist attack
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  Speaker 1: involving murder and rape. She also decried the rising antisemitism
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  Speaker 1: faced by Jewish communities globally in the wake of the
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  Speaker 1: attack and expressed gratitude to those who have supported Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Damery shared previously unreleased photos from her captivity. detailing injuries
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  Speaker 1: and her eventual release and marriage. Turning to domestic affairs,
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  Speaker 1: a public disturbance erupted in Modion during a military police
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  Speaker 1: operation to arrest a draft dodger. Footage showed Haredi men
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  Speaker 1: protesting and clashing with officers, who reportedly used pepper spray.
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  Speaker 1: This follows similar anti-draft protests seen in Jerusalem last week.
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  Speaker 1: In legal proceedings, Aiton Cable testified in the Netanyahu trial,
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  Speaker 1: stating a witness was untruthful and offering to take a polygraph.
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  Speaker 1: We also have reports from Mariv News Flash. Israeli intelligence
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  Speaker 1: observes a potential turning point regarding Hamas, raising concerns about
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  Speaker 1: future implications. Separately, a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University is accused
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  Speaker 1: of planning to murder hundreds of Arabs using multiple terror cells.
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  Speaker 1: David Zinni has reportedly delivered an unusual message to Shin
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  Speaker 1: Bet officials following October 7. Additionally, a co-pilot is said
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  Speaker 1: to have evaded aviation terror training received in Britain. For
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  Speaker 1: continuing coverage of antisemitism around the world, listen to Antisemitism,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Noah Levi, thank you for listening to Israel Today
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