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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2026-09-05 at 15:01 · Israel Today: Ongoing War Report

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  Speaker 1: The time is now 3.01pm in New York. I'm Noah
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  Speaker 1: Levi and this is the latest Israel Today, ongoing war report.
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  Speaker 1: In Iranian retaliation, analysts say there is no realistic path
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  Speaker 1: for Iran to become a constructive, peaceful country while its
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  Speaker 1: current leadership remains in place, and the regime is oriented
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  Speaker 1: for the long term. The regime is described as a
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  Speaker 1: dictatorship preparing for the post-Trump era. including agreements with Oman
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  Speaker 1: over the Strait of Hormuz that could give Iran influence
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  Speaker 1: over roughly one-fifth of the world's oil transit outside US
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  Speaker 1: or Western control. Reports describe joint meetings of the Hormuz
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  Speaker 1: Committee and frameworks for temporary corridors, mine clearing and permanent
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  Speaker 1: management of the waterway. With Iran seeking service fees of
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  Speaker 1: several million dollars per tanker and greater leverage over all
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  Speaker 1: dependent countries, some of the revenue could flow to proxies
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  Speaker 1: such as Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and other militias. The
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  Speaker 1: analysis suggests that these moves could shift regional dynamics if
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  Speaker 1: not checked by a capable adversary. Iran's top joint military
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  Speaker 1: command warned it could expand strikes if the United States
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  Speaker 1: continues to harass its ships, in the wake of US
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  Speaker 1: strikes on three Iranian tankers, and amid intelligence assessments that
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  Speaker 1: Tehran may be preparing a broader escalation. In regional impacts,
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  Speaker 1: Iraq says it has completed an investigation into around 57
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  Speaker 1: zero ISIS detainees transferred from Syria earlier this year. The detainees,
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  Speaker 1: mostly men, had been held in about two dozen detention
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  Speaker 1: facilities in eastern Syria since 2019 by the US-backed SDF
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  Speaker 1: until an agreement with the Syrian government to integrate them,
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  Speaker 1: after which US Central Command facilitated the transfer to Iraq.
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  Speaker 1: It remains unclear how many will be tried in Iraq
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  Speaker 1: or remain in detention. ISIS was largely defeated in Syria
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  Speaker 1: in 2019, and thousands of ISIS members ended up detained
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  Speaker 1: by the SDF. Most detainees were women and children, though
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  Speaker 1: several thousand men were considered more dangerous. A report based
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  Speaker 1: on AFP notes that more than 450 Syrians will be
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  Speaker 1: released and handed over to their country. Iraq's Supreme Judicial
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  Speaker 1: Council said it concluded the interrogation phase of the 57
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  Speaker 1: four suspects brought from northeast Syria. In Israeli domestic politics,
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  Speaker 1: An opinion piece argues that the Israeli right is slowly
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  Speaker 1: becoming the religious bloc. The right that formed them was
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  Speaker 1: largely secular, nationalist and security-minded. But the piece contends it
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  Speaker 1: is being replaced by a more religious messianic current. The
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  Speaker 1: author highlights a string of high-profile defections from Likud and
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  Speaker 1: related centres over decades, including Ariel Sharon forming Kadima, Tzipi
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  Speaker 1: Livni moving to the centre, Ehud Olmert, Dan Meridor, Benny Begin,
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  Speaker 1: Mosh Yalen and Avigdor Liberman. with current figures like Jillard
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  Speaker 1: Erden cited as part of a broader migration. The piece
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  Speaker 1: suggests this shift is reshaping the character of the Israeli
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  Speaker 1: right and challenging classical liberal ideals such as the rule
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  Speaker 1: of law and citizens' rights. In Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Hate,
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  Speaker 1: reporting from Paris Notes, an Israeli woman in her 80s
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  Speaker 1: was attacked at a Paris hotel overnight. The Foreign Ministry
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  Speaker 1: said consular officials are in contact with her and her
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  Speaker 1: family as authorities handle the case, with the motive not
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  Speaker 1: yet confirmed. Earlier this year in July, Paris police reported
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  Speaker 1: a man was arrested after wounding three people with two
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  Speaker 1: kitchen knives near Place de Clichy. Separately, European rabbis are
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  Speaker 1: unveiling a seven-point plan to confront what they describe as
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  Speaker 1: an infrastructure of hatred amid rising anti-Semitic violence. At a
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  Speaker 1: Brussels conference, the Conference of European Rabbis unveiled a manifesto
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  Speaker 1: titled A Call to End the Violent Hatred, urging European governments,
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  Speaker 1: the European Union, religious leaders and civil society to confront antisemitism,
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  Speaker 1: religious extremism and radicalization across the continent, addressing networks and
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  Speaker 1: funding in addition to protecting Jewish institutions. In uplifting news,
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  Speaker 1: Cairo's Egyptian Museum says it completed restoration and relocation of
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  Speaker 1: Aramis's Ai-Ai basalt steel. The black basalt steel, about 240
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  Speaker 1: cm long and 110 cm wide, dates to Egypt's New Kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: circa 1570 to 1069 BCE, and has been on display
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  Speaker 1: for over a century. It was found in two pieces
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  Speaker 1: and later joined, relocated as part of a new display plan,
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  Speaker 1: and placed between two other stele depicting Ramses I.I. The
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  Speaker 1: restoration removed earlier restoration materials and the wooden panel supporting
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  Speaker 1: the artefact. In Saqqara, archaeologists uncovered the tomb of an
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  Speaker 1: ancient royal chamberlain in Sector A of the Bubasteum necropolis.
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  Speaker 1: The Old Kingdom tomb includes a complete set of alabaster
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  Speaker 1: funerary tools, including an offering table and disc, a purification basin,
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  Speaker 1: a jug, and a basin, with a false door in
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  Speaker 1: its original position. In front of the false door, inscriptions
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  Speaker 1: identify the tomb owner as Sekhin Tutar, who served in
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  Speaker 1: the period, as the necropolis sits within a larger temple
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  Speaker 1: complex dedicated to the goddess Bastet. Thank you for tuning
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  Speaker 1: in to this Israel Today, ongoing war report update. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Noah Levi. Stay safe and informed. Keep in mind that
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  Speaker 1: this AI-generated report may contain occasional inaccuracies, so consult multiple
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