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Shmuel Rosner and Rabbi Mishael Zion discuss his latest book, "The Book of Esther - A New Israeli Commentary."

Rabbi Mishael Zion, an educator and community entrepreneur, is the director of the Mandel Program for Leadership in Jewish Culture. He is the author of Esther: A New Israeli Commentary and, together with his father, Noam Zion, the author of Halaila Hazeh: An Israeli Haggadah and A Night to Remember: The Haggadah of Contemporary Voices. He has served as a faculty member at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning in New York, and has been a visiting scholar at the New York University School of Law. He is one of the founders of the Klausner Minyan, a partnership minyan in Jerusalem.

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On our first election panel, Knesset member Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin, professor Yossi Shain and Shmuel Rosner discuss Ayelet's departure from the Knesset, what makes this election an unordinary one and more.

Yossi Shain is the Romulo Betancourt Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University where he also serves as Head of TAU's School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs, head of the Abba Eban Graduate Studies Program in Diplomacy and Director of the Frances Brody Institute for Applied Diplomacy. He is also a Full Professor of Comparative Government and Diaspora Politics at Georgetown University, and the Founding Director of the Program for Jewish Civilization (PJC) at Georgetown.

Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin is an Israeli lawyer and politician. Ayelet studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1991 she joined the Labor Party, and later became assistant legal advisor to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.[1] After Rabin was assassinated in 1995 she became chair of Tavlit, an irrigation company. She was placed 22nd on the Zionist Union list (an alliance of Labor and Hatnuah) for the 2015 Knesset elections and was elected to the Knesset as the alliance won 24 seats.

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Dr. Yizhar Hess and Shmuel Rosner discuss the reasons behind conservative judaism being a relatively small stream in Israeli society and what can be done in order to change that.

Dr. Yizhar Hess is the Executive Director and CEO of the Conservative Judaism movement in Israel, also known as Masorti.

Hess has a Ph.D. from the Department of Philosophy of Education at Sussex University in Brighton, England.

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Shmuel Rosner and Brigadier General (Res.) Michael Herzog discuss the possible challenges that await the new Israeli government.

Brigadier General (Res.) Herzog is a senior fellow at JPPI and currently heads an extensive project on confronting the de-legitimization phenomena. He rose through the military ranks to become head of the IDF's strategic planning division and one of Israel's prominent experts on strategic, military and intelligence matters.

Over the last decade General Herzog has held senior positions in the office of Israel's Minister of Defense, under four ministers and was the Chief of Staff to Minister Ehud Barak. In those positions, he was at the center of Israeli decision-making on all key strategic, defense and political issues. General Herzog is also a military fellow at the Washington Institute, where he published extensively on Middle Eastern affairs.

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Shmuel and Shalom discuss the genetic aspect of being jewish and its correlation with being a genius.

Wald was born in 1936 in Milan, Italy. He grew up in Basel, Switzerland where he studied social sciences, history, and history of religions, graduating in 1962 as Ph.D. In 1964 he joined the Paris-based OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) where he stayed until his retirement in 2001. His career spanned education, technological innovation, science and technology policy, energy research policy and biotechnology policy. He was Head of the OECD/DSTI Biotechnology Unit. He joined the JPPPI in 2002 and worked on Jewish/Israeli relations with China; science and technology; and the history of Jewish civilization. Currently he reviews India-Israel-Jewish People links.

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Shmuel Rosner and Jonathan de Shalit discuss Jonathan's creative process, meeting with his idol John le Carré, the unique vetting process his books must pass and the interesting world of clandestine intelligence. Jonathan de Shalit is the pseudonym of a former high-ranking member of the Israeli Intelligence Community. He is the author of Traitor and the upcoming book A Spy in Exile. His books must pass a rigid vetting process, including the approval of a special Governmental Ministers' Committee.

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Shmuel Rosner and Dana Weiss discuss Benjamin Netanyahu's legacy and try to predict how the Trump peace plan will impact the current election season.

Dana Weiss is the Chief Political Analyst at channel 12 news and the Anchor of "Saturday News with Dana Weiss."

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Shmuel Rosner and Avi Buskila discuss why he is running for the Knesset and the future of the Meretz party. Avi Buskila is a politician and LGBTQ advocate running for a seat in the MERETZ party. He severed as a major in the Israel Defense Forces and was the head of the Peace Now movement.

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Shmuel Rosner and Noah Slepkov talk about their collaboration with Professor Camil Fuchs, a project titled #IsraeliJudaism. You can read more about it on the JPPI website here. Noah is a JPPI Fellow for Science, Technology and Data. He is the author of "Policy Opportunities for Video Games and Interactive Entertainment" and "Crowd Sourced Genealogy and Direct-to-Consumer DNA Testing: Implications for the Jewish People", both published by JPPI within its Annual Assessment.

Previously he served as Foreign Policy and Strategic Advisor to Member of Knesset Dr. Einat Wilf.

Noah holds an Honors BA in Jewish Studies from York University and an MA in Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution from the Lauder School of Government at the IDC Herzliya. He also studied Economics at the University of Toronto and Political Science at the University of Western Ontario.

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Shmuel Rosner and Yaron Dekel discuss the upcoming Israeli election: who are the key players and who has a chance to win. Yaron Dekel is a political commentator and the cohost of the popular radio show "Dekel Segel" on Galei Tzahal, the Israeli radio network operated by the Israel Defense Forces. Yaron served as a commander at Galei Tzahal in the years 2012-2017. He has won many awards for his journalistic achievements, including the Sokolov Award.

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