From Haaretz – Israel's oldest daily newspaper – a weekly podcast in English on Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World, hosted by Allison Kaplan Sommer.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/podcasts
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 7 days 2 hours 5 minutes
episode 318: 'The more oppression there is, the more younger Arabs in Israel prefer to identify as Palestinians'
Haaretz journalist Sheren Falah Saab has been covering the unfolding disastrous humanitarian situation in Gaza for months. Even now, aside from reporting on the lives of Gazans as the war rages, she manages, from time to time, to deep dive into Arab culture, and write the kind of articles that she used to send in all the time before October 7...
episode 319: 'Ultra-Orthodox Israelis are at the peak of their power and they don't pay a price in war'
The controversy in Israel over the exemption of ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students from military service "has reached a boiling point," former Haaretz journalist and author Yair Ettinger tells host Allison Kaplan Sommer on the Haaretz Podcast.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has continually delayed confronting the issue in his years in power, Ettinger notes...
episode 320: 'U.S. aid to Israel is endangered. We're seeing that come to fruition right now'
Six months into Israel's conflict with Hamas, the solid support U.S. President Joe Biden's White House gave to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has taken a serious hit...
episode 321: 'If One of Those Missiles Hit Tel Aviv We Would Be in a Very Different, Devastating Situation'
Iran's firing of hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel on Saturday night marked a new escalation in a simmering war usually fought by proxies miles from Tehran. Iran's strike, which was largely intercepted by Israel and its allies, leaves lingering questions of global significance...
episode 322: 'Young U.S. Jews believe Judaism is about social justice. They ask, does Israel stand for that?'
If support for Israel becomes a truly partisan issue and political football in the United States, it will be "a disaster" that the people and the leaders of the Jewish state don't fully comprehend, says Professor Noah Feldman in a conversation with host of the Haaretz Podcast Allison Kaplan Sommer.
Feldman is a Harvard Law School professor and public intellectual who has written ten books on law, politics, religion and Middle East geopolitics...
episode 323: 'The campus wars over Gaza suck. But they are not a violent, antisemitic nightmare'
In her first visit to Israel since October 7, Berkeley-based author and screenwriter Ayelet Waldman made the news carrying a sack of rice on her shoulder, she was arrested with a group of rabbis participating in a symbolic march to the Gaza border to deliver humanitarian aid...