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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - September 10, 2026, 12 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: Analysts are closely watching Iran's nuclear program, particularly at the
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  Speaker 1: deeply buried Pekax Mountain nuclear site. Satellite imagery reviewed by
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  Speaker 1: analysts from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, or CSIS,
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  Speaker 1: indicates a significant surge in construction activity over the past year.
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  Speaker 1: with work shifting to internal construction and exterior reinforcement. According
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  Speaker 1: to CSIS, the site could be designed as a safe
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  Speaker 1: haven for Iran's nuclear programme, potentially serving as a facility
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  Speaker 1: for centrifuge assembly, enrichment or other, nuclear weapons relevant, work,
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  Speaker 1: though analysis suggests it is not yet capable of enrichment.
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  Speaker 1: Sources familiar with the matter told CNN that the United
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  Speaker 1: States had considered Pickaxe Mountain a potential target if the
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  Speaker 1: conflict with Iran escalated in recent months. with the Defense
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  Speaker 1: Department reportedly holding a planning sprint on striking Iranian underground facilities.
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  Speaker 1: Targeting such sites, particularly due to the surrounding granite, could
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  Speaker 1: prove difficult with existing US non-nuclear bombs. CNN also reports
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  Speaker 1: the US military is developing a successor to its massive
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  Speaker 1: Ordnance Penetrator bomb, with a prototype contract awarded in September
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  Speaker 1: 2025 aimed at potentially targeting more deeply buried facilities. This
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  Speaker 1: follows US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites during Operation Midnight
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  Speaker 1: Hammer in June 2025, where only entrances to the Isfahan
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  Speaker 1: site were buried due to targeting limitations. In other regional developments,
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  Speaker 1: American military aircraft sustained damage in overnight strikes on the
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  Speaker 1: Muafak Salty Air Base in Jordan. CBS reporter Jennifer Jacobs
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  Speaker 1: reported that one Aminus-10 Thunderbolt, known as the Warthog, was
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  Speaker 1: struck and left with a missing wing. while roughly eight
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  Speaker 1: F-15s sustained lighter damage and have since been returned to service.
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  Speaker 1: Shifting focus to education, Israel has seen a dramatic collapse
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  Speaker 1: in its performance on the 2025 PISA exam, which assesses
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  Speaker 1: 15-year-old students. The results, published this week, show Israel's lowest
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  Speaker 1: ever scores in mathematics, reading and science. The average score
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  Speaker 1: decline across the three subjects was 29 points, making it
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  Speaker 1: the second sharpest decline worldwide among the 75 participating countries
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  Speaker 1: and economies. Scores for Arabic-speaking students were particularly low, falling
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  Speaker 1: below those of many Arab nations. Education Minister Yoav Kish
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  Speaker 1: attributed the results to the resilience of Israel's education system
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  Speaker 1: despite nearly a year and a half of war and
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  Speaker 1: learning disruptions. However, Professor Dan Ben-David, President of the Shorsh
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  Speaker 1: Institution for Socioeconomic Research, points to an underlying factor. noting
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  Speaker 1: that about half of Israel's children, including Haredim and Arab Israelis,
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  Speaker 1: are not adequately engaged in tested material. And finally, in
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  Speaker 1: North America, five major Jewish organizations have launched a significant
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  Speaker 1: initiative aimed at combating antisemitism in schools. The Jewish Federations
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  Speaker 1: of North America, the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee,
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  Speaker 1: the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and
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  Speaker 1: Stand With Us have released a Jewish Students' Bill of Rights.
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  Speaker 1: calling on schools to adopt new standards for protecting Jewish
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  Speaker 1: students and recognising antisemitism. This initiative comes as antisemitic incidents
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  Speaker 1: in US K-12 schools remain persistently high, with the ADLS
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  Speaker 1: 2025 audit recording 825 incidents in non-Jewish K-12 schools and
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  Speaker 1: 6274 incidents nationwide in 2025. The Bill of Rights calls
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  Speaker 1: for educators to be trained, clear reporting systems to be established,
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  Speaker 1: and accurate teaching about Jewish history, the Holocaust, antisemitism and Israel.
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  Speaker 1: It also emphasises protecting students' right to express their Jewish
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  Speaker 1: identity and connection to Israel, and ensuring a balanced presentation
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  Speaker 1: of disputed political issues in classrooms. I'm Noah Levi, thank
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  Speaker 1: Keep in mind that this AI-generated report may contain occasional inaccuracies,
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