Daily Briefing March 7: Day 153 – Oct. 7 & Meron disaster: Pattern of poor leadership?
Editor David Horovitz on reports that Biden may ban US arms from use in Rafah, blowback from the long-awaited Meron inquiry, and why Jews today worry more than in any post-WWII era
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleWelcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Today is Day 153 of the war. Editor David Horovitz joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today’s episode.
We hear statements from two journalists who arguably have the ear of the White House. Horovitz discusses how representative the statements are, as every move the Biden administration makes in the war in Gaza is scrutinized ahead of the US elections in November.
On April 30, 2021, during the coronavirus pandemic, 45 people were killed in a crush at the Mount Meron gravesite of a second-century sage in northern Israel. After two and a half years of work, a state commission of inquiry headed by retired judge Dvora Berliner has named a number of officials responsible for the disaster in a 320-page report. We hear about the results of the inquiry as well as political blowback.
In Horovitz’s weekly column yesterday, he wrote that we’re living in the most worrying period for Jews since WWII. How is he seeing this play out?
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Discussed articles include:
Report: Biden mulling moves to keep Israel from using US weapons in Rafah
State inquiry blames Netanyahu, but does not sanction him, for deadly 2021 Meron crush
Likud derides inquiry on deadly Meron crush as ‘political weapon’ against Netanyahu
Full text of inquiry’s findings on officials’ responsibility for 2021 Meron disaster
We’re living in the most worrying period for Jews since World War II
THOSE WE HAVE LOST: Civilians and soldiers killed in Hamas’s onslaught on Israel
THOSE WE ARE MISSING: The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown
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