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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - September 13, 2026, 06 AM 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 Gaza. The IDF stated that
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  Speaker 1: a strike targeted two Hamas terrorists in Gaza City. According
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  Speaker 1: to local medical staff, this resulted in at least two
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  Speaker 1: Palestinian fatalities and 13 injuries. Footage circulated on social media
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  Speaker 1: showed the vehicle involved in the incident mangled. The IDF
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  Speaker 1: has not provided further information on the strike. Turning now
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  Speaker 1: to antisemitism in Europe, Berlin police have opened an investigation
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  Speaker 1: into a suspected antisemitic attack. According to a police statement,
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  Speaker 1: early Friday morning, a 43-year-old woman was assaulted with a
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  Speaker 1: broken glass bottle and subjected to antisemitic insults by two
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  Speaker 1: unidentified men. Authorities say the incident occurred after the men
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  Speaker 1: noticed the Star of David necklace she was wearing. The
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  Speaker 1: woman sustained cuts to her hand. the suspects fled and
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  Speaker 1: have not yet been identified. This incident follows a report
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  Speaker 1: by Berlin authorities that recorded over 2,200 antisemitic offences in
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  Speaker 1: 2025 alone. Domestically, Israel's political landscape appears highly fragmented following
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  Speaker 1: the closure of party lists for upcoming elections, according to
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  Speaker 1: five recent polls reported by Mariv. Four surveys indicated Gadi
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  Speaker 1: Eizenkot's Yashar party as the largest, while an I24 News
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  Speaker 1: poll showed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud leading. Former IDF
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  Speaker 1: Brigadier General Ofer Winter's People of Israel party reportedly crossed
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  Speaker 1: the electoral threshold in all five polls. The overall bloc
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  Speaker 1: picture remains unclear, with different polls showing varying advantages for
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  Speaker 1: the opposition or Netanyahu's bloc. In security news, police in
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  Speaker 1: the Central District conducted operations resulting in the seizure of
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  Speaker 1: illegal weapons. In Ramel, A law missile was found in
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  Speaker 1: a residential compound during a search for illegally held arms,
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  Speaker 1: leading to an arrest. Separately, in Lod, officers seized six
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  Speaker 1: magazines and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. Police said these
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  Speaker 1: actions are part of efforts to combat the leakage of
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  Speaker 1: weapons from the IDF into the hands of criminal elements.
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  Speaker 1: And in education, Israel's latest PISA test results have been
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  Speaker 1: described as a disastrous collapse. Scores in reading, mathematics and
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  Speaker 1: science have fallen to their lowest ever levels. placing Israel
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  Speaker 1: below the OECD average in all three subjects. The report
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  Speaker 1: indicates that 46% of Israeli students are not reaching a
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  Speaker 1: baseline proficiency in mathematics, compared to an OECD average of 35%.
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  Speaker 1: The findings suggest a core deterioration within the education system,
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  Speaker 1: with factors like recent wars potentially contributing. 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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