Gantz adds another general to Blue and White. Big whoop?

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world, from Sunday through Thursday. Editor David Horovitz and diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman join host Amanda Borschel-Dan. Israel again experienced a terrorist shooting last night, this time near Jerusalem’s Western Wall. Horovitz brings updates. This morning, we hear that former IDF top general Gadi Eisenkot and former Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana are joining ranks with Blue and White head Benny Gantz. Does this boost Gantz’s chances? Berman is back in Israel following several weeks in Ukraine. He tells us about a Holocaust survivor who is again displaced by war and previews other upcoming pieces reported there. International media was flooded with headlines over the weekend about the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie as he prepared to give a lecture in upstate New York on Friday. Berman explains it’s not the first attack surrounding the controversial author. Do we expect the stabbing to affect the Iran nuclear talks in any way? Horovitz tells us about a so-called "Pasta Nazi" who is working out of Tel Aviv’s Florentin neighborhood. Discussed articles include: ‘Screams of terror’: 7 hurt, including 2 seriously, in shooting near Western Wall Suspected terrorist in Jerusalem shooting turns himself in to police Ex-IDF chief Eisenkot, former Yamina minister Kahana join Gantz-led ‘National Camp’ Rushdie off ventilator and talking, a day after being stabbed, agent says Why decades later, Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’ remains so controversial Israel says Rushdie stabbing ‘an attack on our values,’ evidence of Iran’s brutality No fettuccine for you: Tel Aviv’s ‘Pasta Nazi’ goes viral Subscribe to The Times of Israel Daily Briefing on iTunes, Spotify, PlayerFM, Google Play, or wherever you get your podcasts. Illustrative image: Then-incoming IDF chief of staff Gadi Eizenkot (L) and then-outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz (L) seen at a changing of the ranks ceremony held at the PM's office in Jerusalem, on February 16, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.