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

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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 l

'U.S. military aid to Israel is endangered. More people will say it should be cut'

16 days ago 40m 37s

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.Following the deaths of seven World Central Kitchen humanitar

'Ultra-Orthodox Israelis are at the peak of their power and they don't pay a price in war'

24 days ago 35m 45s

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.Pri

'The more oppression there is, the more younger Arabs in Israel prefer to identify as Palestinians'

30 days ago 38m 57s

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

Thomas Friedman, Aluf Benn, Noam Tibon and Amir Tibon on the failures of Oct. 7

Mar 21st, 2024 31m 59s

This special episode of the Haaretz Podcast features two of the standout sessions from the recent Haaretz-UCLA conference: Israel After October 7 First, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman sits down with Haaretz edi

Tony Kushner: Israel's Gaza war 'looks a lot like ethnic cleansing to me'

Mar 20th, 2024 45m 32s

Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner, one of the first high-profile American Jewish artists to sharply and publicly criticize Israel's treatment of Palestinians, speaks to Haaretz Podcast host Allison Kaplan Sommer about Jonat

Franklin Foer: 'Simplistic moralism is dividing the world into good and evil, and placing Jews on the side of evil'

Mar 12th, 2024 31m 43s

In a bold cover story in The Atlantic, journalist Franklin Foer declared "The Golden Age of American Jewry is Ending." On the Haaretz Podcast, he tells host Allison Kaplan Sommer how and why he reached the sobering conclusion that "an unprecede

'Netanyahu wants the world to accuse Israel of genocide, apartheid and ethnic cleansing'

Mar 5th, 2024 35m 58s

Veteran columnist Bradley Burston opens his new book "The End of Israel: Dispatches from a Path to Catastrophe" with a stinging indictment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who he believes is leading the country towards what could be its fi

Former PM Olmert: 'Netanyahu’s overconfidence and arrogance led to October 7'

Feb 28th, 2024 37m 8s

In a recent op-ed in Haaretz, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right ministers of knowingly steering Israel into an all-out war.During a wide-ranging conversation on this week's Haaretz Po

'Israelis are rejecting Netanyahu. That doesn't mean they are embracing left-wing views'

Feb 21st, 2024 47m 35s

You can hear the drumbeats for immediate elections in Israel in demonstrations in the streets, on highway billboards, and in the headlines. After four months of putting politics aside to focus on the war in Gaza and the northern border, Israeli

'This is not our first war, but it's the first war we've seen Israel's credit rating drop'

Feb 14th, 2024 38m 32s

The decision by Moody's credit rating agency to downgrade Israel's rating and outlook last week was a shock to the country after decades of growth and a rosy outlook for the future as its technology-driven industries flourished.Haaretz economi

Israel's former head of military intelligence: 'If we don't offer an alternative, we'll end up with Hamas again'

Feb 5th, 2024 41m 54s

Israel's former head of military intelligence, Tamir Hayman, now the managing director of the Institute for National Security Studies, joins host Allison Kaplan Sommer on Haaretz Podcast to discuss Israel's war with Hamas and the key question:

Rallying for democracy, calling to free hostages: Where Israel's protest movements stand

Jan 29th, 2024 36m 10s

Thousands of Israelis are back on the streets, four months after the October 7 Hamas attack and the war in Gaza halted historic demonstrations against the Netanyahu government's plan to overhaul the judiciary.Joining host Allison Kaplan Sommer

The ugly price Israel will pay for the decision-making failures that led to October 7

Jan 22nd, 2024 37m 54s

On this week's Haaretz Podcast, host Allison Kaplan Sommer holds a wide-ranging conversation with Chuck Freilich, Israel's former deputy national security adviser.Freilich, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies, di

'Can Netanyahu be ousted?' and other burning questions from Haaretz readers

Jan 16th, 2024 45m 57s

In a special edition of the Haaretz Podcast, host Allison Kaplan Sommer and the Haaretz editorial team asked subscribers worldwide what they saw as the most urgent questions as the Israel-Hamas conflict passed the 100-day mark. The questions po

'How can we expect others to empathize with us when we fail to empathize with Palestinians?'

Jan 9th, 2024 39m 51s

Rabbi Sharon Brous, founder of the IKAR synagogue in Los Angeles, has been progressive Judaism's leading voice over the past decade speaking out for equality and human rights, as well as the rabbinic figure of choice for the Biden-Harris White

Dennis Ross: On Gaza, 'Netanyahu's far-right ministers aren't living in reality'

Jan 1st, 2024 44m 27s

Ambassador Dennis Ross has played an important part in U.S. Middle East policy over the last decades, and was the point man in the peace process in both the George W. Bush administration and Bill Clinton's administration. On Saturday night, he

'Death in Gaza is a taboo subject in Israel right now'

Dec 26th, 2023 32m 43s

As the number of Palestinian deaths in Gaza climbs to 20,000 while the number of Israeli soldiers killed in fighting grows daily, it is becoming harder every day for the two sides of the bloody conflict to see the humanity in the other side, sa

‘The Houthis don’t care about the Palestinians. They are attacking Israel to gain support’

Dec 18th, 2023 28m 32s

The Houthis in Yemen, the Islamist rebel group that has shot missiles and drones at Israel and is now intensifying attacks on key shipping lanes in the Red Sea, have progressed from being "a nuisance and a headache to a major strategic threat t

'Israelis don't see images from Gaza because our journalists are not doing their job'

Dec 12th, 2023 38m 11s

From the horrifying live videos broadcasted by Hamas militants on the morning of October 7 during their invasion of Israeli villages, to IDF soldiers entering Gaza, the bombarded buildings, and the long lines of refugees with few belongings – T

Is the Red Cross failing Israeli hostages held by Hamas?

Dec 5th, 2023 39m 27s

In this week's episode of the Haaretz Weekly podcast, Haaretz English editor-in-chief Esther Solomon explores a topic that has angered the Israeli public since the start of the Israel-Hamas War: Why haven't representatives of the Red Cross been

With all eyes on Gaza, West Bank Palestinians are facing unprecedented violence

Nov 27th, 2023 34m 54s

While the world is watching the Israel-Hamas war unfold in Gaza, Palestinians in the West Bank are suffering some of the worst violence and restrictions on their daily life in years.Since Hamas militants entered Israel on October 7 and killed

This Holocaust survivor is used to fighting deniers on TikTok. Hamas apologists broke him

Nov 20th, 2023 36m 26s

A disinformation war is raging online and Israel is losing, says Omer Benjakob, Haaretz cyber and technology correspondent at Haaretz.It isn’t as if an effort isn’t being made by Israel to professionally curate and manage information about its

The cruel sexual violence that was part of Hamas' October 7 attack

Nov 13th, 2023 39m 10s

“I knew right away that sexual violence was part of the events of October 7, but obviously, I could not have known the extent of the cruelty that Hamas engaged in,” says Professor Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, who served for 12 years on the UN Committ