The Mossad director, David Barnea, gave a rare openly threatening speech: vowing to stop Iran's continued ambition to build nuclear weapons. At an awards ceremony, he also said Israel will punish those responsible for the terrorist attack on Jews in Australia -- at their Hanukkah party on Bondi Beach.

Dan -- in Israel this week -- speaks with Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel on a range of current events. She says Israel repeatedly warned Australia that an antisemitic terrorist attack was coming, accusing that country's government of inaction.

Dan reports that officials -- Haskel among them -- seem coordinated in a message that Israel is not merely fighting Hamas and Hezbollah -- but is, in effect, combating the enemies of Western civilization.

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