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53 shares 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. Today’s panel comprises Times of Israel editor David Horovitz and political correspondent Tal Schneider, along with host Amanda Borschel-Dan. We speak about today’s Labor Party primaries, ahead of the looming Israeli elections on March 23. Also, the recent announcement that Likud “prince” Benny Begin, the son of former prime minister Menachem Begin, has joined with fellow former Likudnik Gid...

Benny Begin. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. JNS.org – Former Israeli minister Benny Begin announced on Thursday that he is joining Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope Party as a candidate for the Knesset in Israel’s upcoming March 23 elections, the party said in a statement. Begin, the son of the late Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, is a former minister and Likud Knesset member. Sa’ar, a longtime member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, left the Likud on Dec. 8 to form his own party with the aim of challenging Netanyahu for the premiership. Welcoming Begin, Sa’ar...

BICOM 22nd January 2021 The Guardian report on the two suicide bombings that killed at least 32 people in Tayaran Square, a second-hand clothes market in Baghdad. A statement from ISIS’s news agency said Shia Muslims were the target of the attack. Over 100 people were wounded in the attack, the biggest suicide bombing in the country for three years. According to the Iraqi interior ministry, “The first suicide bomber said he was sick, asked for help, gathered people around him and detonated the bomb. The second suicide bomb detonated as soon as ot...

Can the latest American political hit squad decide Israel’s election? Featured Column Can the latest American political hit squad decide Israel’s election? Donald Trump’s critics loved the Lincoln Project, but it did little to assist Joe Biden while raking in cash for its founders. Nevertheless, Gideon Sa’ar is counting on it to help topple Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (January 21, 2021 / JNS) The Lincoln Project was one of the biggest winners of the 2020 presidential election. That’s not because the group of former Republican “Never Trump” political consultants actually d...

Former Likud MK and Minister Benny Begin, son of late Prime Minister Menachem Begin, announced Thursday that he will be joining the New Hope Party led by former Likud MK Gideon Sa'ar. "In recent years, and especially in the last year, we have witnessed a strange and dangerous phenomenon," Begin said. "It is precisely