🇮🇱 IDF DELEGATION COMPLETES RESCUES AT COLOMBIA IMPACT SITES: IDF humanitarian delegation teams operating alongside local rescue forces in Colombia located and rescued all missing people at the impact sites where the Israeli teams were operating, while continuing to assist at additional sites.
The delegation is also conducting professional structural surveys of damaged buildings to help local decision-makers develop an updated situational assessment. The work is enabling educational and healthcare institutions to resume operations and helping the city return to normal functioning as quickly as possible. Dozens of buildings have been surveyed, with most approved for use and some declared unsafe. The delegation’s experts approved the safe return of more than 250 families to their homes. The IDF also released body-camera footage from a delegation rescuer and additional footage of operations at the impact sites.
⚠️ BEN GURION AIRPORT STRIKE FALLOUT: According to Amit Segal, the Histadrut does not deny that Israel Airports Authority workers’ union chairman Pinchas Idan had previously received the backing of Histadrut chairman Arnon Bar-David. Bar-David said he was surprised by the airport disruption: “I only spoke with Pinhas Idan afterward. I sent him a message, ‘Bro, what’s going on? Is this true?’ Our intervention restored order.”
Idan initially maintained that there was no strike, but subsequently ordered workers to return to work, an inconsistency highlighted by Segal.
Segal argues that responsibility for Idan’s accumulated political leverage extends across political camps. He notes that Idan was previously a Likud Knesset candidate and controls an organized bloc of party members, while senior Likud figures have relied for years on his ability to deliver votes. Segal also argues that Likud’s opponents cannot fully disassociate themselves from Idan after previously celebrating the shutdown of Ben Gurion Airport following Gallant’s dismissal.
Segal contends that repeated political tolerance from multiple sides helped strengthen Idan’s ability to wield disruptive power. He cites Section 21(a)(9) of the Likud Constitution as allowing Idan and his vote-recruitment operative to be expelled from the party, arguing that such action could significantly weaken the group’s political influence.
“Free Ben Gurion Airport” activists posted signs outside Histadrut headquarters calling for a boycott of anyone who comes into contact with the organization.
An initial Finance Ministry estimate places the economic damage from the Ben Gurion Airport strike at NIS 25–30 million. Following what was described as a reckless and illegal strike that harmed Israeli citizens and damaged the economy, Prime Minister Netanyahu instructed that Idan be expelled from Likud membership.
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