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.

Political correspondent Sam Sokol and tech reporter Sharon Wrobel join host Jessica Steinberg for today’s episode.

After deputy foreign minister Sharren Haskel said she won’t follow foreign minister and her New Hope party head Gideon Sa’ar into the Likud party, Sokol discusses Haskel’s position on the front lines of Israel’s information battle and her concerns about Likud’s representation of moderate voters.

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Opposition Leader Yair Lapid warned of “the end of Zionism” if Netanyahu’s coalition wins the next election; Sokol sees an intensifying of the Yesh Atid chief’s election rhetoric.

Sokol also takes a look at rising tensions between the Ashkenazi and Sephardic Haredi parties as a case of discrimination comes to the fore, as well as at Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Boaz Bismuth’s new approach to a Haredi military (non-)conscription law.

Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air plans to establish a base in Israel, notes Wrobel, a move that would boost the budget carrier in the Israeli air transportation market and threaten local rivals.

Wrobel also addresses the milk shortage in Israel, describing production issues and consumer panic.

Check out The Times of Israel’s ongoing liveblog for more updates.

Rejecting return to Likud, New Hope’s Haskel sees herself as ‘politically homeless’

Lapid: If Netanyahu wins the next election, ‘it will be the end of Zionism’

Haredi MK complains Sephardic students are ‘crowding’ into Ashkenazi girls’ schools

Bismuth’s proposal for Haredi enlistment said to freeze arrests of draft evaders

Low-cost Wizz Air’s plan to open Israel hub faces fierce opposition from local rivals

Despite import waiver, milk shortage expected to worsen ahead of Jewish holidays

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