Daily Briefing Apr. 19: Israeli flags wave at Auschwitz; will there be a Saudi deal?

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world, from Sunday through Thursday.

US bureau chief Jacob Magid and Diaspora affairs reporter Canaan Lidor join host Jessica Steinberg for today’s podcast.

Lidor offers perspectives from the March of the Living in Poland, as some 9,000 people made the trek in the former Nazi-run death camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, marking Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Magid discusses what Lindsey Graham told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the possibility of a normalization agreement with Saudi Arabia, during the US senator’s recent visit to the region.

Magid also dives into his analysis of the US visa waiver program. US Ambassador Tom Nides wants Israel in the program, but has conditioned it upon allowing Palestinian-Americans to travel freely through Ben Gurion Airport.

Steinberg mentions a new album of 13 songs, “Paskol Shlishi” (Third Soundtrack), written by headlining Israeli musicians, the latest endeavor that aims to connect the third and fourth generations to the tragedies and lessons of the Holocaust.

Discussed articles include:

At Auschwitz March of the Living, displays of Jewish unity in a sea of Israeli flags

Halina Birenbaum survived the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. She saw heroism elsewhere

GOP senator: Window for Israel-Saudi normalization deal could close within a year

Senior Hamas delegation seen in Saudi Arabia ahead of expected rapprochement talks

Despite baggage, some Palestinians rooting for Israel to secure US visa waiver

Mainstream Israeli artists make an album of new music to connect youth to Holocaust

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