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Episode 44: Fateful choices to make in the new year, a comment for Rosh Hashanah
Episode 44
Rosh Hashanah is the only Jewish holiday that falls on the first day of the lunar month - that begins in darkness. It is also the holiday most associ…
1 year ago
Episode 43: After Doha, Israel needs a new story
Episode 43
On September 9, Israel tried but failed to kill Hamas leaders in Qatar. The regional blowback surprised the Israelis. Emirati and Saudi leaders, who …
1 year, 1 month ago
Episode 42: Why is Egypt so scared to open its border with Gaza? with Mariam Wahba
Season 42 Episode 42
Events move fast in the Middle East. This episode was recorded before the Israeli strike in Qatar. We believed this episode was an important one beca…
1 year, 1 month ago
Episode 41: The rise and fall of Ottoman Jewry with Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak
Episode 41
The first Jews to become subjects of the Ottoman Empire lived in Greek-speaking western Anatolia during the Ottoman conquests of the region in the ea…
1 year, 1 month ago
Episode 40: You still need real life spies to win wars, with Yossi Cohen
Episode 40
Former Mossad director Yossi Cohen joins the podcast to talk about the war with Iran (spoiler: It isn’t over), the ayatollahs' regime (which won’t be…
1 year, 1 month ago
Episode 39: Fear and loathing in the diaspora, live in Oslo with Bjørn Gabrielsen.
During an August speaking tour in Norway, Haviv was interviewed at an event hosted by the remarkable Jewish organization Kos & Kaos - The Nordic Jewi…
1 year, 1 month ago
Episode 38: What will it take to defeat Hamas? With Prof. John Spencer
Episode 38
Twenty-three months after the October 7 attack, Hamas is massively degraded in Gaza. At a terrible cost to Gaza itself, and after losing hundreds of …
1 year, 1 month ago
Episode 37: The genocidal claim of genocide with Adam Louis-Klein
Many of our Patreon subscribers have asked us to address the campaign against Israel that accuses it of genocide, colonialism and so on. This episode…
1 year, 1 month ago
Episode 36: How marginalized Mizrahim became Israel's first spies
Episode 36
Long before the operational successes of the Mossad would become the stuff of legend in the espionage world, before the Twelve Day War, before Eli Co…
1 year, 2 months ago
Episode 35: Solving hunger in Gaza with Prof. Yannay Spitzer
Episode 35
Professor Yannay Spitzer is an economic historian who has studied food and hunger. His efforts over the past month to get real reliable data on hunge…
1 year, 2 months ago