Haaretz Podcast

Host Simon Spungin is joined by Haaretz’s Amir Tibon and, from the Financial Times, Mehul Srivastava, who has just returned from a post-war visit to the Gaza Strip. What do 11 days of Israeli bombardments look like on the ground? Do the people of Gaza believe that Hamas won? And Amir tells us what it’s like living less than a mile from the Gaza border. PLUS: Starting June 11 – Haaretz Weekend. Follow us on Twitter: @spungin @amirtibon @MehulAtLarge

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Host Simon Spungin is joined by Aluf Benn, Noa Landau and Anshel Pfeffer to discuss the 15-day war between Israel and Gaza, the cease fire that ended it and the immediate implications for Israel, the region and the world. We ask: Is there any chance of meaningful change? What is the significance of the internecine violence between Jews and Palestinians inside Israel? And will ‘Bibi fatigue’ end the electoral impasse that has paralyzed the Israeli government for so long?

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Host Simon Spungin is joined by Haaretz senior intelligence analyst Yossi Melman and Haaretz.com’s tech editor, Omer Benjakob, to discuss the ongoing hostilities between Israel and Hamas. What, if any, were both sides hoping to achieve? What role has social media disinformation played in the conflict? And is there a way to avoid a repetition in the near future?

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Host Simon Spungin is joined by Haaretz's chief military analyst, Amos Harel, and Muhammad Shehada, a writer and civil society activist from the Gaza Strip. More than a week into the fighting between Israel and the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip, which has been accompanied by widespread disturbances among Israel's Palestinian citizens, we ask: Has Israel achieved anything in its attacks against Hamas targets in Gaza? What would be considered a victory for the Israeli side? Has Hamas already achieved everything it hoped to in this round of fighting? And is Israel, in fact, playing into the Islamist organization's ' hands?

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In this breaking news episode, host Simon Spungin is joined by Anshel Pfeffer to discuss the deadly escalation between Israel and Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip – and, perhaps more worryingly, inside Israel itself. How did we get from what Israel referred to as a “real estate dispute in Jerusalem” to what looks very much like war? What should concern us more: the Gaza rockets or the internecine violence inside Israel? And what about the political process and efforts to form a new government?

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Host Simon Spungin is joined by Haaretz's Jerusalem correspondent, Nir Hasson, to discuss the violence that has left dozens injured in the capital. We also talk to Chaim Levinson [15:22] about ongoing efforts to form a government without Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party. PLUS: Judy Maltz [27:15] on Israel's decision to deport 70 members of the Black Hebrew Israelites - many of whom were born in the county.

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Host Simon Spungin is joined by Anshel Pfeffer for a quick-fire guide to the breaking news from Israel, brought to you by Haaretz.com. Anshel answers the burning questions raised by the latest Israeli electoral drama: What happened last night at midnight? What’s happening now? Is this the end for Bibi? Who’s your money on to become Israel’s next prime minister?

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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. We ask: Will Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu establish a commission of inquiry to investigate the incident? Will ultra-Orthodox Israelis respond to this disaster with anger – and in which direction? And could this tragedy be the catalyst for a change in the often fraught coexistence between secular and Haredi Israelis?

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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.’ We also discuss the Jewish National Fund’s plan to buy land for settlement expansion and a boycott against the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom – by a Jewish youth group.

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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 nuclear talks in Vienna, and Jonathan Pollard’s excruciating and arguably antisemitic Independence Day interview.

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