Today: Terrorism March 2022

this morning (thursday 31st), 8.47-8.50am, on bbc radio 4 

today (presented by martha kearney and mishal husain) includes …

“In the last few minutes, the Israeli army has said that it has shot dead a Palestinian who stabbed an Israeli civilian in the West Bank.

There’s also been a raid in the West Bank in which two Palestinians died in clashes with Israeli defence forces.

Eleven Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks over the past two weeks.”

including report from …

• bbc reporter yolande knell 

(see also https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-seriously-wounded-in-stabbing-attack-near-west-bank-settlement/ and https://www.timesofisrael.com/bus-driver-says-he-made-emergency-stop-to-let-passengers-escape-after-terror-attack/ and https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-kills-at-least-2-palestinians-in-jenin-gunbattle-israeli-injured-in-stabbing/)

P4t: Chait 30/3/2022

this morning (wednesday 30th), on bbc radio 2

pause for thought by rabbi alby chait 

“It’s far better to fight fire with water.”

Nd/Today: Bnei Brak terrorism

this morning (wednesday 30th), 7.25-7.29am on bbc world service radio, and 8.07-8.08am on bbc radio 4 

newsday (presented by alex ritson and james copnall) and today (presented by mishal husain) include …

“The Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, says his country is facing a new wave of terror after five people died in a third attack in less than a week.

… two of the dead were Ukrainian.”

including contributions from …

• journalist mark weiss 

• bbc reporter yolande knell 

(see also https://www.timesofisrael.com/2-ukrainians-among-bnei-brak-dead-funeral-held-for-man-who-died-shielding-his-son/ and https://www.timesofisrael.com/ukrainian-nationals-killed-in-bnei-brak-named-as-victor-sorokopot-dimitri-mitrik/)

Nh/Twt: Bnei Brak terrorism

this evening (tuesday 29th), 9.44-9.48pm on bbc world service radio, and 10.04-10.05pm and 10.27-10.31pm on bbc radio 4 

newshour (presented by tim franks) and the world tonight  (presented by julian worricker) include …

“At least four people have been killed in Israel in a shooting on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. It’s the third such attack in the past week.

Police say the gunman was also shot dead, they believe he was a Palestinian from the occupied West Bank.”

including contributions from …

• journalist noga tarnopolsky 

• bbc reporter yolande knell 

(see also https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-gunman-kills-five-in-bnei-brak-terror-spree/)

P4t: Gelfand 28/3/2022

yesterday morning (monday 28th), 5.46-5.49am, on bbc radio 2

pause for thought by rabbi shoshana boyd gelfand

“The first step in freeing ourselves is to become aware.”

Nh: Negev summit ends

this afternoon (monday 28th), 2.45-2.49pm, on bbc world service radio 

newshour (presented by james coomarasamy) includes …

“A summit that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago has drawn to a close in Israel’s Negev desert, The Israeli hosts were joined by the US secretary of state and the foreign ministers of four Arab nations: the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Egypt.”

including report from …

• bbc reporter yolande knell 

(see also https://www.timesofisrael.com/announcing-permanent-regional-forum-israel-arab-states-laud-alliance-decry-terror/ and https://www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-of-yair-lapids-negev-summit-speech-making-history-in-abrahams-footsteps/)

Nd: Negev summit

this morning (monday 28th), 6.51-6.55am, on bbc world service radio 

newsday (presented by alex ritson and andrew peach) includes …

“Foreign ministers from four Arab states are at a venue in the Negev desert for a summit hosted by Israel for talks which the government in Jerusalem has hailed as historic.“

including report from …

• journalist allison kaplan-sommer 

Virtuoso violinists

this evening (sunday 27th), 7.00-7.55pm (repeated 1.15am, and repeated from april 2019, october 2017, and december november april and march 2016), on bbc 4 tv  

virtuoso violinsts at the bbc (presented by nicola benedetti)

“Violinist Nicola Benedetti explores 60 years of BBC archive to celebrate the world of the violin and its most outstanding performers.

From Nathan Milstein, Mischa Elman, and Isaac Stern, to Yehudi Menuhin, Itzhak Perlman, and Nigel Kennedy, Nicola gives us a violinist’s perspective on what makes a great performance, in a tradition which stretches back to the 19th-century virtuoso Paganini.”

Nh: Negev summit

this afternoon (sunday 27th), 1.06-1.11pm and 9.36-9.42pm, on bbc world service radio 

newshour (presented by julian marshall) leads with …

“Israel hosts an historic summit with four foreign ministers of Arab countries, plus the US, at which the nuclear deal with Iran will be discussed; what now stands in the way of agreement?”

including contributions from …

• bbc reporter yolande knell 

• analyst barbara slavin 

We: Boris Romanchenko

this morning (sunday 27th), 8.12-8.21am, on bbc world service radio 

weekend (presented by julian worricker, with guest viola von cramon, mep) includes …

“The life and works of Boris Romanchenko, the survivor of the Nazi death camps, killed by a Russian shell in Kharkiv, Ukraine.”

including interview with …

• historian jens-christian wagner, buchenwald foundation

(see also https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/96-year-old-survivor-of-four-nazi-death-camps-killed-in-ukraine/ and https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-internacional-60830100)