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Yoav Gelber and Shmuel Rosner discuss the upcoming annexation of parts of the west bank and its impact on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

Yoav Gelber is a professor of history at the University of Haifa, and was formerly a visiting professor at The University of Texas at Austin.

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Moav Vardi describes the Israeli population's relationship with its allies and opponent countries around the world.

Moav Vardi is the Chief International Correspondent in Kan - the Israeli public broadcasting cooperation.

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Shmuel Rosner and Matti Friedman discuss Matti's new book, "Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story of a Forgotten War," Israel's war in Lebanon and why it has not received its place in the Israeli canon.

Matti Friedman's work as a reporter has taken him from Lebanon to Morocco, Cairo, Moscow and Washington, D.C., and to conflicts in Israel and the Caucasus. He has been a correspondent for the Associated Press, and his writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Tablet Magazine, and elsewhere. He grew up in Toronto and lives in Jerusalem. "The Aleppo Codex," his first book (Algonquin, 2012) won the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize and the ALA's Sophie Brody Medal, among other honors. His second book, "Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story" (Algonquin, May 2016) won starred reviews in Kirkus, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal, and was compared by the New York Times to Tim O'Brien's masterpiece "The Things They Carried."

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Shmuel Rosner and Michael Herzog discuss the possibility of Israel annexing parts of the west bank this upcoming summer and its possible implications.

Brigadier General (Res.) Herzog is a senior fellow at JPPI. 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.

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Akiva Bigman explains the Netanyahu doctrine: the vision and strategies behind Benjamin Netanyahu's policies. Akiva Bigman is a journalist for the newspaper "Isarel Hayom."

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Shmuel Rosner and Tal Schneider discuss Israel's new government. Tal Schneider is a diplomatic and political correspondent for Globes in Israel and is a former DC correspondent for Maariv newspaper. Her stories have also appeared in Haaretz, Saloona, Mako and Al-Masdar.

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Einat Wilf and Adi Schwartz return to discuss the english edition of their book "The War for the Palestinian Right of Return."

Einat Wilf is a writer and a politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Independence and the Labor Party.

Adi Schwartz is a journalist and academic. A former staff writer for Haaretz, he currently works as a freelance journalist for Israeli and international newspapers and magazines.

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Shmuel Rosner and Hizky Shoham discuss Hizky's newest book and the differences and similarities of how Israel celebrates Passover and its independence day.

Hizky Shoham is a cultural historian of Israel and Zionism. He is a research fellow in the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and a lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

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Dr. Shlomo Fischer, Dr. John Ruskay and Shmuel Rosner discuss JPPI's 2019 dialogue - which focused on the Growth of the Haredi Communities in the Diaspora.

John S. Ruskay is Executive Vice President emeritus of UJA-Federation of New York, a senior partner of JRB Consulting Services, and a senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute. He served as a Commissioner of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom from May 2016 to May 2018. Ruskay is an author and lecturer on issues affecting the Jewish people.

Dr. Shlomo Fischer, a senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Instiude, teaches sociology in the School of Education at Hebrew University and at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is also currently a research fellow at the Van Leer Institute. His research interests include the nexus of religion, politics and class in Israel, contemporary religion and the sociology of the Jewish people. He has published extensively on radical religious Zionism and the West Bank settlers as well as on the Shas movement.

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Shmuel Rosner, Professor Yair Zakovitch and Professor Avigdor Shinan discuss their new book - The Song of Songs Scroll, a New Israeli Commentary.

Prof. Yair Zakovitch, professor emeritus in biblical studies, held the Father Takeji Otsuki Professor of Bible Studies Chair at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was Professor of Jewish Peoplehood at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. Prof. Avigdor Shinan is Professor Emeritus in the departments of Hebrew Literature, Yiddish and Comparative Jewish Folklore at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Shinan has served as head of the departments of General Studies, and of Hebrew Literature and as Dean of the Hebrew University. He has served as visiting Professor at Yale, JTS, and Yeshiva University and has also taught at Ben-Gurion, Tel-Aviv, and at the Schechter Institute.

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