Day 533 - David Horovitz on external threats and internal divisions

Welcome 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.


Editor David Horovitz joins host Amanda
Borschel-Dan for today's Daily Briefing, which is a
bonus episode of our weekly What Matters Now series.


Recording at noon on Thursday in ToI's Jerusalem office ahead of
a planned fateful cabinet vote on the firing of Shin Bet head
Ronen Bar tonight, Horovitz attempts to summarize this fraught
Israeli moment.


As Israel Defense Forces troops are again entering the Gaza Strip
for ground operations, fears of a crumbling Israeli democracy are
bringing thousands to the streets, alongside others who reject
the notion of a renewed war in Gaza without a hostage deal first.


Horovitz takes us through a litany of issues fueling the domestic
strife and assesses how Israel again finds itself at a
crossroads.


"All of us want Israel to survive and to thrive and we have two
things simultaneously: We have terrible threats from without and
we have tremendous division from within," says Horovitz. "This is
extremely dangerous for Israel."


And so this week, we ask ToI editor David Horovitz, what matters
now?


Please see today's ongoing liveblog for
more updates.


For further reading:


For Israel, everything will not be okay


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IMAGE: Israelis march in a protest against Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and his plans to dismiss the head of the Shin
Bet internal security service, in Jerusalem on March 19, 2025.
(AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)


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