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.
Today is day 99 of the war. US bureau chief Jacob Magid joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for this one-on-one episode.
Families of hostages are holding 24 hours of nonstop awareness-raising events to mark 100 days of Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip. Last night, the Prime Minister’s Office announced in a statement that an agreement has been reached that will see vital medications delivered to hostages, via the International Red Cross. What has changed that is allowing this gesture of “semi-good will”?
Early today, the US military struck another Houthi-controlled site in Yemen that it had determined was putting commercial vessels in the Red Sea at risk, a day after the US and Britain launched multiple airstrikes targeting Houthi rebels. While at a Pennsylvania bookstore on Friday, US President Joe Biden was asked by the traveling press pool whether he thinks the Houthis are a terrorist organization, despite having delisted them in his first year in office. “I think they are,” he said. What’s happening there?
We learned last week that technical conversations between the US and Saudi Arabia about a potential normalization agreement with Israel have continued during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, according to two senior US officials and a senior Arab diplomat. Magid tells us more.
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Vital medications to be transferred to Gaza hostages in coming days, PM’s office says
US hits Houthi radar site in fresh strike after threats to Red Sea shipping
Biden calls Houthis a terror group, as administration weighs reapplying designation
Biden: I’m quietly working with Israel to ‘significantly’ lower IDF presence in Gaza
Saudi normalization still possible post-war, but price for Israel is higher — officials
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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