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Political correspondent Tal Schneider joins host Jessica Steinberg for today’s episode.
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After three IDF soldiers were struck and severely wounded by a Hezbollah drone in Lebanon on Friday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the unusual move of announcing the incident in English during Shabbat, Schneider says, to ensure the US administration understood the seriousness of the ceasefire violation.
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Schneider looks ahead to Monday’s feverishly contested Likud primary, in which members of Netanyahu’s party will choose some, but not all, of their Knesset slate.
The latest Zman Yisrael poll showed Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party opening a four-seat lead over Likud ahead of the October 27 general election, but the anti-Netanyahu Zionist bloc still not quite able to muster a Knesset majority. Eisenkot, she notes, might nonetheless aim to form a minority government.
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