Former Knesset speaker and Jewish Agency chairman Avraham ‘Avrum’ Burg joins host Simon Spungin to explain his request to be 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. PLUS: Amir Tibon on President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration and “Very Fine People,” a Haaretz.com project presenting an oral history of Jewish America during the Trump presidency.

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