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Host Simon Spungin is joined by Haaretzs Jerusalem correspondent, Nir Hasson, to discuss the violence that has left over 200 wounded in the city and the police’s dangerously heavy-handed response to protests. Want to get an email every time a new episode is available? Click "Follow" on top of this article, or "Register" with one of the podcast providers – and youll never miss out. We also talk to Chaim Levinson [15:22] about ongoing efforts to form a government without Benjamin Netanyahu an...

Host Simon Spungin is joined by Haaretz’s Anshel Pfeffer and ultra-Orthodox journalist and activist Pnina Pfeuffer to discuss the aftermath of the Mount Meron tragedy, in which 45 people were crushed to death at a Jewish festival. Want to get an email every time a new episode is available? Click "Follow" on top of this article, or "Register" with one of the podcast providers – and youll never miss out We ask: Will Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the political and religious leaders of ...

Host Simon Spungin is joined by Noa Landau and Judy Maltz to discuss the violence in Jerusalem and how recently emboldened Jewish supremacists were allowed to march through the city chanting ‘Death to Arabs.’ Want to get an email every time a new episode is available? Click "Follow" on top of this article, or "Register" with one of the podcast providers – and youll never miss out What impact did the recent election have on the annual Ramadan protests? Did the police do enough – or too m...

Host Simon Spungin is joined by Haaretz’s senior intelligence analyst Yossi Melman to discuss the latest developments in the shadow war between Israel and Iran, the role Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants the United States to play, and the nuclear talks in Vienna. Want to get an email every time a new episode is available? Click "Follow" on top of this article, or "Register" with one of the podcast providers – and youll never miss out Why does the Biden Administration view Israel as a ...

Host Simon Spungin is joined by Haaretz’s assignment editor, Amir Tibon, who talks about his experiences as diplomatic correspondent for the news website at the center of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial. Want to get an email every time a new episode is available? Click "Follow" on top of this article, or "Register" with one of the podcast providers – and youll never miss out What kind of interference did journalists encounter? Why did the editor-in-chief refuse to run...

Host Simon Spungin is joined by Haaretz’s West Bank correspondent Hagar Shezaf, to discuss a change in policy at the Jewish National Fund, which will now openly purchase land in the occupied West Bank for the purpose of expanding Israeli settlements. Want to get an email every time a new episode is available? Click "Follow" and youll never miss out. Hagar explains how a change in the balance of power within the JNF has allowed it to turn the organizations unofficial policy of investing in the...

Follow Jan. 31, 2021 Host Simon Spungin is joined by Guy Rolnik – founding editor-in-chief of TheMarker and Clinical Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Chicagos Booth School of Business – to discuss the fallout from Donald Trump’s expulsion from social media platforms. Want to get an email every time a new episode is available? Click "Follow" and youll never miss out. Facebook silenced Trump. Will it tackle Netanyahu’s lies? Listen to Guy Rolnik

As the pandemic forces Israel to close its airspace, the prime minister still refuses to pay the price needed to make Haredim toe the Coronavirus line.

Follow Jan. 17, 2021 Former Knesset speaker and Jewish Agency chairman Avraham ‘Avrum’ Burg joins host Simon Spungin to explain his request to have ‘Jewish’ deleted from his Israeli identity card and why the Nation-State Law was a “quantum leap” in Israel’s march toward an illiberal democracy. Want to get an email every time a new episode is available? Click "Follow" and youll never miss out. Fundamentalist Israel is no longer Jewish, says Avrum Burg on Haaretz Weekly podcast. LIS...