Tel Aviv Review

This week's show is a special one, because we only have one guest. But it's a very special guest: Dr Fania Oz-Salzberger, a historian at Haifa University and a leading public intellectual in Israel.

She talks about the book Jews and Words, which she co-authored with her father Amos Oz, the famous Israeli novelist. It explores the importance of words to Jews over the generations.

Music:

F.R David - Words Don't Come Easy

Ha Hatzer Ha'achorit - Lishrok Bahoshech

Robert Plant - Rainbow

A eulogy to a different kind of Zionism

Prof. Ofer Shiff of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, author of the recently published The Downfall of Abba Hillel Silver and the Foundation of Israel, talks about the American-Jewish leader who lost the argument for diaspora-based kind of Zionism.

Airing grievances: A comparison of social protest movements

Naama Nagar, a sociologist from the University of Wisconsin Madison, was closely involved in two almost simultaneous social protest movements in 2011; in Wisconsin and in her native Israel. She draws parallels between the two.

Music:

Audioslave - Show Me How To Live

Otis Redding - I Love You More Than Words Can Say

Radiohead - 2+2=5

Geva Alon - Yam Shaket

Shalom Hanoch - Bagilgool Haze

The price of collaboration

Prof. Menachem Hofnung, a political scientist from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, unveils a ground-breaking study that he has just concluded about Israel's treatment of Arab informants over the years.

A time of harmonious coexistence

We speak to the makers of the documentary film Tinghir-Jerusalem: Echoes from the Mellah, which explores the cordial relations between Jews and Berbers in Morocco that were severed when politics got in the way.

Music:

Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Idan Raichel's Project - Beyom Shabat

Ehud Banai - David & Shaul

Incubus - Love Hurts

Hatikva 6 - Od Pa'am Pa'am