Channel 12

Maybe we'll kind of give the, the examples of where we are just to kind of, uh, set the stage for our conversation.

So our polls main, uh, network in Israel, Channel 12, is now giving Netanyahu's bloc 49.

Again, we'll remind our listeners, 120 seats in the Knesset, 49.

The anti-Bibi bloc, 54.

What this means is, Jonathan, that when you take these stats and you compare them to what Channel 14, Netanyahu's, uh, let's say home base is saying, they're giving the Netanyahu bloc 63, okay? That is a complete difference between what I just said, and the Eisenkot bloc, uh, 45.

So in Channel 14, Netanyahu is cruising to a, an astounding victory.

In Channel 12, the picture is a little murkier, and it does show that, uh, Eisenkot is in the lead, the difference being what the Likud is getting in both polls.

In our poll, it's saying the Likud is getting 21 seats.

Well, that's easy to remember.

And according to Israel's Channel 12, the questions about him extend well beyond what happened inside that cockpit on that day.

As you'll remember from our coverage last week, Israeli news sources said the copilot stabbed the captain during an apparent attempt to hijack the aircraft.

The plane then plunged over seventeen thousand feet before the captain was able to open the cockpit door and passengers helped overcome the alleged attacker.

The flight eventually landed safely in Saudi Arabia, and the passengers were later flown to Israel.

But that left a question that we raised at the time.

How did the man accused of threatening those passengers' lives come to be entrusted with their safety in the first place? Well, according to Channel 12, Al Hammami had flown that Dubai to Tel Aviv route several times before.

Israeli authorities are now checking whether he was behind the controls on that same route just days before Wednesday's attack.

[whooshing] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sued three Israeli media outlets and five journalists for defamation on Tuesday.

The suit targets Haaretz, Yediot Aharonot, and Channel 12, along with journalists Shlomi Eldar, Uri Misgav, Nadav Eyal, Barak Ravid, and Atilla Somfavi.

Netanyahu is seeking two point six million shekels.

That's about eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars.