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'Israel doesn't want journalists on the ground': CNN’s Jeremy Diamond on the fight to enter Gaza
Season 1 Episode 422
The foreign press corps in Israel has been battling – unsuccessfully – since the Gaza war began in October 2023 to be permitted access to the Strip in order to report on the conflict and the humanita…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
'Starvation is being livestreamed. Every minute we lose a life in Gaza': Palestinian testimonies and growing Israeli protests
Season 1 Episode 421
The latest crisis of mass starvation and death in Gaza seems to have finally cut through the layers of denial and media self-censorship in Israel – and in both Arab and mixed cities, demonstrations a…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Netanyahu will 'do anything to stay in power’: If early elections are called, could he win?
Season 1 Episode 420
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decisively lost his Knesset majority following the exit of the two major ultra-Orthodox parties that were pillars of his coalition, which now holds only 49 seats…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Behind Trump’s crusade to 'save Bibi' from his criminal trial
Season 1 Episode 419
If it weren’t for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ongoing criminal trial and the multiple investigations into payments made by Qatar to his closest aides, the Gaza war could have been over, Bar P…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Dropping bombs and dialogue? Israel-Syria peace talks right now are ‘absolutely mind-boggling’
Season 1 Episode 418
The Israeli military strike on southern Syria this week is “concerning” in view of the “unexpected opportunity” for a potential peace agreement with the new government there, Israel’s former deputy s…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
The U.S. and Canada are running out of Reform rabbis. Look who's taking their place
Season 1 Episode 417
A crisis-level shortage of clergy in North American Reform and Conservative synagogues has led to a fascinating new phenomenon – an exodus of Israeli-born rabbis moving to the United States and Canad…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
'I touched death so many times in Gaza': Released hostage Aviva Siegel on 'screaming' for a cease-fire deal
Season 1 Episode 416
Israel, it seems, is once again on the brink of a cease-fire deal with Hamas – one that would see hostilities halted for at least two months, and an exchange of Palestinian prisoners for Israeli host…
Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago
'Hope is a political choice': MK Gilad Kariv on the fight for democracy and Reform Judaism in Netanyahu’s wartime Israel
Season 1 Episode 415
Religious extremism and intolerance of liberal Judaism has spread from the ultra-Orthodox and ultra-nationalist parties into the mainstream of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, MK Gila…
Published on 2 months ago
Behind the scenes of the explosive Haaretz 'killing field' Gaza expose that Netanyahu called a 'blood libel'
Season 1 Episode 414
An explosive expose by Haaretz featured testimonies from IDF soldiers and officers that they were ordered to use live fire to disperse thousands of unarmed Palestinians in Gaza who had crowded the ha…
Published on 2 months ago
Why 'emboldened' Jewish settlers are now attacking Israeli soldiers in the West Bank
Season 1 Episode 413
Destructive attacks on Palestinian communities by West Bank settlers “emboldened” by support from powerful far right-wing figures in the Netanyahu government have received little attention as the cou…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago