Episodes 100
Avg. Duration 29m
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Since Jun 2025
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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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.

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S1E511 Iran and Israel exchange fire, and 'Trump is fed up': A war update from Amos Harel and Sima Shine

Jun 08, 2026 35m

U.S. President Donald Trump has tired of the Israel-Iran conflict, but a solution remains elusive as missile fire renewed Sunday following an Israeli attack on Beirut that provoked the Iranian…

S1E510 'Nations committing genocide don’t recognize it in real time': Yuli Novak on Israel’s moral crisis

Jun 05, 2026 40m

For B'Tselem executive director Yuli Novak, the firestorm around the New York Times column by Nicholas Kristof decrying sexual violence by Israelis against Palestinians in the West Bank and in…

S1E509 ‘There’s a lot of anger at Israel in the Gulf’: Gregg Carlstrom on Lebanon, Gaza and the cease-fire with Iran that feels like war

Jun 02, 2026 27m

The Gulf countries are spending “enormous amounts of money to try to mask the economic consequences of the Iran war from their population,” Gregg Carlstrom, The Economist’s Middle East correspondent,…

S1E508 How the Iran war destroyed Israel's deterrence

May 28, 2026 23m

Both of Israel’s wars in Iran have been “strategic failures” and critically damaged the country’s deterrence, Danny Citrinowicz, a former top Iran expert in Israeli military intelligence, told the…

S1E507 How AIPAC and pro-Israel megadonors turned a midterm race into the most expensive primary in U.S. history

May 26, 2026 30m

The first major primary battle in the 2026 U.S. midterm elections resulted in a significant victory for AIPAC and other pro-Israel megadonors, but Haaretz's Washington correspondent Ben Samuels…

S1E506 'Sounding the alarm': Inside a deepening crisis as American Jewish support for Israel erodes on left and right

May 21, 2026 32m

As Israel is fighting enemies on multiple fronts, it can't afford to lose any of its vital strategic assets. And according to Dr. Avishay Ben Sasson-Gordis, a researcher at Tel Aviv's Institute for…

S1E505 Back to full-on war with Iran? Amos Harel on Trump’s dilemma and Netanyahu’s desire

May 19, 2026 23m

U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed his desire not to "get stuck" in Middle East conflict and clearly wants to avoid a renewal of full-on war with Iran – but he may not have a choice, Haaretz…

S1E504 'BDS is a scam': Why Israeli music icon David Broza still believes in the power of art

May 15, 2026 42m

On a special edition of the Haaretz Podcast celebrating its 500th episode, host Allison Kaplan Sommer speaks to iconic Israeli musician David Broza – the composer of "Things Will Be Better," one of…

S1E503 'Political football': How U.K. Jews are caught between Britain's racist far-right and the anti-Zionist far left

May 12, 2026 26m

Jews in the United Kingdom watched voters in their country gravitate to parties on the extreme right and left in the country’s local elections – following a campaign where antisemitism was used as a…

S1E502 Jewish life in polite Canada has become 'a horror show of hatred'

May 08, 2026 31m

October 7 and the Gaza war radically changed the way many people around the world, including Diaspora Jews, viewed Israel.  For Toronto-based journalist Jesse Brown, the turning point came not with…

S1E501 Can Naftali Bennett defeat Netanyahu? Inside the Israeli opposition’s big gamble

May 05, 2026 31m

War-weary Israelis have clearly tired of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership, but it is still uncertain as to whether opposition forces will be able to put aside their wide ideological…

S1E500 How a Haaretz investigation into stolen Ukrainian wheat triggered a diplomatic crisis

May 01, 2026 25m

A diplomatic crisis over Israeli import of stolen grain from occupied Ukraine exploded this week following the publication of a Haaretz investigation that documents Ukrainian allegations that Russian…

S1E499 'American Jews really hate Trump. But they hate Netanyahu even more'

Apr 28, 2026 29m

The average American watched the Gaza war from afar as a "dramatic and gruesome humanitarian crisis that Israel was responsible for" – but the U.S.-Israel war in Iran is having a far greater impact…

S1E498 Making Israel's case to ChatGPT and Grok: Hasbara meets AI in multi-million dollar PR push

Apr 24, 2026 28m

Fighting antisemitism online was meant to be the focus of the Israeli government’s multimillion-dollar digital PR campaign run by President Donald Trump’s former digital guru, Brad Parscale. But…

S1E497 'You can't heal in a perpetual war': Israeli peace activist Yonatan Zeigen on following in his mother's footsteps

Apr 20, 2026 27m

The final moments of Vivian Silver’s life were a “pivotal turning point” for her son Yonatan Zeigen, who now dedicates his life to Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation, following in the footsteps of…

S1E496 'The Hungarians turned their anxiety into hope, that's the main lesson for Israelis'

Apr 17, 2026 25m

The dramatic landslide election in Hungary toppling authoritarian populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, resonated deeply for Israel in diverse ways, explained Haaretz’s David Issacharoff, who covered…

S1E495 'We'll kill you, traitor': How far-right thugs and police target Israel's antiwar protest leaders

Apr 14, 2026 32m

As diplomatic talks between Iran and the United States continue in an effort to extend the temporary cease-fire due to expire on April 22, public opinion surveys show that while a majority of…

S1E494 Iran war cease-fire update with Amos Harel: 'Trump wants out and Netanyahu is extremely disappointed'

Apr 09, 2026 17m

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "extremely disappointed" by the terms of the temporary cease-fire hammered out between Donald Trump's White House and Iran, but has little choice but to accept it…

S1E493 What Trump got wrong about Iran, what the IDF got wrong about Hezbollah: Amos Harel on wars with no exit strategy

Apr 06, 2026 30m

As the war with Iran drags on and the conflict with Hezbollah intensifies, a growing number of Israelis are “losing faith” in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s promises of a decisive victory,…

S1E492 How Israel 'is consolidating its control' in Gaza and the West Bank as the world focuses on Iran

Apr 03, 2026 28m

With a high-profile conflict between IDF soldiers and a CNN crew, the establishment of five new Israeli settler outposts on territory meant to be under Palestinian Authority control in a single…

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