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Lay of the Land Weekly Newsletter – 22 September 2026

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PRE-ISRAELI ELECTION DEBATE IN ENGLISH

Lay of the land and TbT (Truth be Told) have invited speakers from the major political parties to participate in a panel debate to be held on Monday the 28th September, 2026 at 7.00pm at Beth Protea, 5 Asher Barash street, Herzliya. There will be a nominal entrance fee (NIS 20) for non-Beth Protea residents. To register or for more information contact:
David Kaplan: 050-7432361 or hildav@netvision.net.il , organizer and debate moderator.
Peter Bailey (TbT) : 054-2663051 peteyb4@gmail.com



What’s happening in Israel today? See from every Monday – Thursday LOTL’s The Israel Brief broadcasts and on our Facebook page and YouTube by seasoned TV & radio broadcaster, Rolene Marks familiar to Chai FM listeners in South Africa and millions of American listeners to the News/Talk/Sports radio station WINA, broadcasting out of Virginia, USA.

THE ISRAEL BRIEF – 14-17 September 2026
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Lay of the Land’s ‘Photo Pick’ of the Week

UNTOLD STORY

This is how Israel’s story is NOT told… and stopped from being told!

Contrived Coverage. He made TIME 100 list for his coverage in Gaza but when Israeli hostages were beaten in front of a camera on October 7, 2023, Gazan photojournalist Motaz Azaiza (above) withheld publication of the footage. Admitting in a podcast interview, he ignored Israeli victims to protect Gazan killers.




ARTICLES

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“ONLY DULL PEOPLE ARE BRILLIANT AT BREAKFAST”

Deconstructing Pretoria’s Latest International Court of Justice (ICJ) Submission.
By  Yoram Blumstein

Whatever the ‘Case’. Who takes a case (or manufactures one) and against whom to court without credible evidence? Answer: South Africa’s ANC government and against the Jewish state. Siting insights from Oscar Wilde, the writer lays out the whys and hows.

“ONLY DULL PEOPLE ARE BRILLIANT AT BREAKFAST”
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FROM ‘BURNING BUSH’ TO BURNING QUESTIONS

How will Mount Sinai – the symbolic birthplace of the Jewish nation – being transformed into an Egyptian government megatourism project alter this sacred landscape?
By Motti Verses

Inclusion or Erasure? The writer raises the question of how a megatourism project at the place where Moses received the 10 Commandments and which serves as a cornerstone for Western civilization and global morality, might record the Jewish narrative to this sacred site.

FROM ‘BURNING BUSH’ TO BURNING QUESTIONS
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MAHSA’S MURDER

Why Mahsa Amini’s death still matters – especially this year.
By Marziyeh Amirizadeh

Regime Change. For the writer, Mahsa’s murder is personal, triggering traumas of her own experience as a prisoner sentenced to death in Tehran’s Evin Prison. Iranians, she asserts, aren’t calling today “ …for tweaks or talks; they’re demanding the end of this evil theocracy.”

MAHSA’S MURDER
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LOTL Cofounders David E. Kaplan (Editor), Rolene Marks and Yair Chelouche

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