Daily Briefing Sept 4: Gorbachev as anti-Pharaoh?; foreigners and partners in PA

Editor David Horovitz assesses Mikhail Gorbachev role in the ‘freeing’ Soviet Jewry; plus weekend security updates from military correspondent Emanuel Fabian

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.

Editor David Horovitz and military correspondent Emanuel Fabian join host Amanda Borschel-Dan.

An Israeli soldier was moderately hurt in a stabbing attack near the West Bank city of Hebron Friday afternoon just before Shabbat, close to the settlement of Kiryat Arba, the military and medics said. The attacker was shot dead. What is the solder’s condition now?

Russia has demanded that Iran and its militias withdraw from positions across Syria, amid an apparent uptick in airstrikes attributed to Israel in recent weeks, according to a report on Friday. What does this mean for Israel?

Sunday morning the Hamas terror group announced that it had executed five Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including two for “collaboration” with Israel. What else do we know about these two men?

New Israeli rules set to take effect next week require foreigners entering the West Bank to declare if they have “formed a couple” with a Palestinian and are in a relationship with them. What is the intention here?

The final leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, died last Tuesday. Horovitz tells us more about who this man was to the Jewish People.