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Captives in Gaza and Other VOI News in Review(25:25)
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that threatening comments made by his coordinator on captives to the family of missing Ethiopian Israeli Avera Mengistu “should not have been said,” but stopped short of an apology. VOI Newsroom hears from Ethiopian activist Fentahun Assefa-Dawit, MK Avraham Negosa and back-channel negotiator Gershon Baskin.
With the world’s eyes on the nuclear negotiations, the VOI Newsroom talks to Jerusalem Post Washington Correspondent Michael Wilner from Vienna, to hear his first-hand observations.
Superintendent Mickey Rosenfeld, a police spokesman, tells VOI’s Raoul Wootliff about recent policing on the Temple Mount and a slew of scandals that have hit the force in recent weeks. Then, the head of the Reform movement in Israel, Rabbi Gilad Kariv, explains how Israel has a long way to go before achieving religious equality.
Finally, a look at the latest political challenges facing the government, as the prime minister fights the Opposition and some members of his own coalition.