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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - September 30, 2026, 10 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: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Israel will join the investigation
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  Speaker 1: into the recent fly-du-bye incident, with a focus on probing
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  Speaker 1: potential Iranian involvement. In a CNN interview, Netanyahu stated that
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  Speaker 1: UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed agreed to Israel's participation
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  Speaker 1: in the inquiry. While he emphasised he lacked specific information
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  Speaker 1: to attribute the event directly to Tehran, Netanyahu identified the
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  Speaker 1: Copilot as an Omani national. He described the dramatic events
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  Speaker 1: aboard the flight approaching Israel, praising the heroism of the
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  Speaker 1: Indian pilot and Israeli passengers who subdued the attacker, preventing
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  Speaker 1: what he called a potential 9-11 disaster. The Prime Minister
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  Speaker 1: also clarified that his earlier warning about potential attacks ahead
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  Speaker 1: of elections was not tied to this specific incident. but
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  Speaker 1: rather to general intelligence about Iran's proxies, including Hezbollah and Hamas,
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  Speaker 1: planning attacks against Israel and Israeli civilians abroad. He noted
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  Speaker 1: the suspect is currently being interrogated in Saudi Arabia and
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  Speaker 1: is expected to be transferred to the UAE. Netanyahu also
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  Speaker 1: reiterated his rejection of reports, claiming specific pre-October, seven warnings
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  Speaker 1: were received regarding Hamas attacks. In broader regional developments, Prime
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  Speaker 1: Minister Netanyahu also held an unannounced meeting with UAE President
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  Speaker 1: Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan in Abu Dhabi. Concurrently, Saudi
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  Speaker 1: Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan visited Washington. Analysts suggest
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  Speaker 1: these engagements, alongside renewed fighting in Yemen and ongoing tensions
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  Speaker 1: with Iran, point to regional governments potentially preparing for escalation
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  Speaker 1: while simultaneously discussing strategies for containment. Turning to the West Bank,
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  Speaker 1: President Isaac Herzog visited an IDF base and strongly condemned
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  Speaker 1: vigilante actions and violence that undermine the rule of law.
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  Speaker 1: His remarks follow an incident early Tuesday morning where over
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  Speaker 1: 100 Jewish extremists reportedly attacked IDF soldiers and border police
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  Speaker 1: officers near the Palestinian village of Jalad. The group succeeded
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  Speaker 1: in blocking a Palestinian family from returning to its home,
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  Speaker 1: and the IDF has made a rare public admission that
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  Speaker 1: its mission to facilitate the return had failed so far.
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  Speaker 1: The violent riots have been condemned by Prime Minister Netanyahu
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  Speaker 1: and the US State Department. In a separate comment related
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  Speaker 1: to Gaza, leftist L.A. mayoral candidate Nithya Raman, when asked
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  Speaker 1: to define genocide, stated she was not an expert on
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  Speaker 1: those issues, but cited other experts who have applied the
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  Speaker 1: term to Israeli actions in Gaza against Hamas. In anti-Semitism news,
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  Speaker 1: suburban Chicago saw its village hall in Deerfield defaced with
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  Speaker 1: anti-Semitic graffiti overnight. an incident now under police investigation. This
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  Speaker 1: follows a similar occurrence last week in nearby Highland Park,
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  Speaker 1: where a swastika was spray-painted on a playground slide. In
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  Speaker 1: New York City, the Anti-Defamation League has sharply criticised Mayor
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  Speaker 1: Zoran Mamdani's newly released plan to combat antisemitism. The ADL
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  Speaker 1: stated that the plan only confirms what we already knew.
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  Speaker 1: This mayor does not treat the hatred facing Jewish New
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  Speaker 1: Yorkers as an emergency and refuses to recognise the different
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  Speaker 1: forms it takes. the organisation highlighted that nearly 40% of
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of antisemitic incidents in NYC since Mamdani took office
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  Speaker 1: were related to Israel, and criticised his past handling of
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  Speaker 1: the issue, including the reported dismissal of the IHRA definition
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  Speaker 1: of antisemitism. On the economic front, the Bank of Israel
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  Speaker 1: estimates the fiscal cost of the war from 2023 through
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  Speaker 1: 2026 at approximately 350 billion shekels, with about half financed
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  Speaker 1: through borrowing. This has led to a rise in public debt,
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  Speaker 1: which reached 68.5% of GDP by the end of 2025.
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  Speaker 1: The government deficit stood at 4.7% during the same period,
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  Speaker 1: indicating a narrowing of fiscal room for future economic responses.
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  Speaker 1: For continuing coverage of antisemitism around the world, listen to
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  Speaker 1: Antisemitism Watch from Clockwork Media. Find it at clockworkmedia.org slash watch.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Noah Levi, thank you for listening to Israel Today
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