Ranked #1
The Old/New Middle East
The Old/New Middle East
Moshe Sakal's novel The Diamond Setter brings old Middle Eastern themes into contemporary Israel, and weaves them into a... Read more
1 Jul 2019
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29mins
Ranked #2
Everything You Knew about Israel's Economy is Wrong
Everything You Knew about Israel's Economy is Wrong
What does economic history have to do with a country's national identity? In Israel's case, a great deal. The myth of a ... Read more
14 May 2018
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35mins
Ranked #3
The Myth of the Cultural Jew
The Myth of the Cultural Jew
Prof. Roberta Ronsethal Kwall, a legal scholar and the founding director of the DePaul University College of Law, has ju... Read more
20 Apr 2018
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26mins
Ranked #4
Post-Zionism: A Post-Mortem
Post-Zionism: A Post-Mortem
Eran Kaplan, Israel Studies professor at San Francisco State University, discusses his book Beyond Post-Zionism, a criti... Read more
24 Sep 2018
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25mins
Ranked #5
Bret Stephens on the State of America and the State of Israel
Bret Stephens on the State of America and the State of Israel
The prominent New York Times columnist joins the Tel Aviv Review at the Z3 conference to discuss politics in the US and ... Read more
13 Dec 2019
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29mins
Ranked #6
Never Again? East German and Radical Left West German Attitudes to Israel
Never Again? East German and Radical Left West German Attitudes to Israel
Jeffrey Herf, a distinguished professor of history at the University of Maryland, talks to host Gilad Halpern about the ... Read more
15 Jun 2018
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19mins
Ranked #7
Democracy in Crisis? Israeli Survey Respondents Agree to Disagree
Democracy in Crisis? Israeli Survey Respondents Agree to Disagree
Israel's 2018 Democracy Index, an annual survey of the health of Israeli democracy, shows off the deepest contradictions... Read more
11 Dec 2018
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38mins
Ranked #8
Who Lost Russia?
Who Lost Russia?
Who lost Russia? In The Future is History, acclaimed author Masha Gessen dove into the heart of the Soviet Union and cam... Read more
6 May 2019
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42mins
Ranked #9
Live in London: Ian Black on One Hundred Years of Conflict
Live in London: Ian Black on One Hundred Years of Conflict
Ian Black, former Middle East editor of The Guardian newspaper, joins us live to discuss his new book Enemies and Neighb... Read more
15 Dec 2017
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1hr 7mins
Ranked #10
Not So Separate, Certainly Not Equal: A History of Partitions
Not So Separate, Certainly Not Equal: A History of Partitions
Arie Dubnov, professor of History and Israel Studies at the George Washington University, discusses his new book Partiti... Read more
22 Oct 2018
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33mins
Ranked #11
Are We Living in an Unprecedented Age of People Power?
Are We Living in an Unprecedented Age of People Power?
Professor Erica Chenoweth, a scholar of international relations says that there has been a dramatic increase in the numb... Read more
20 Aug 2018
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33mins
Ranked #12
Left-Handed Compliments: Anti-Semitic Discourse Among 'Progressives'
Left-Handed Compliments: Anti-Semitic Discourse Among 'Progressives'
Dr. David Hirsh, a sociologist at Goldsmith's, University of London, discusses his new book Contemporary Left Antisemiti... Read more
17 Nov 2017
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32mins
Ranked #13
What Do Haredi Voters Really Want?
What Do Haredi Voters Really Want?
Gilad Malach of the Israel Democracy Institute gives the latest electoral trends among Israel's insular ultra-orthodox J... Read more
1 Apr 2019
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33mins
Ranked #14
The Right to Culture: A Right in Its Own Right?
The Right to Culture: A Right in Its Own Right?
Edna Harel-Fisher, a research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute and a former legal adviser to several government ... Read more
9 Dec 2019
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33mins
Ranked #15
Corruption: A Very Glocal Problem
Corruption: A Very Glocal Problem
Transparency International is among the most prominent global organizations fighting corruption through exposure, docume... Read more
14 Jan 2019
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39mins
Ranked #16
Liberalism and Nationalism: Friends or Enemies?
Liberalism and Nationalism: Friends or Enemies?
“Liberal” and “nationalist” sound like mutually exclusive forces that cannot coexist. Yet Yuli Tamir, scholar, peace act... Read more
8 Jul 2019
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35mins
Ranked #17
On the Media: Public Broadcasting, Regulation and Press Freedom in Israel
On the Media: Public Broadcasting, Regulation and Press Freedom in Israel
Dr. Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Democratic Values and Institutions, the head of the M... Read more
23 Jul 2018
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36mins
Ranked #18
Brava Gente: Debunking the Myth of Jew-Loving Italians
Brava Gente: Debunking the Myth of Jew-Loving Italians
Dr Shira Klein, professor of modern history at Chapman University, discusses her book Italy's Jews from Emancipation to ... Read more
29 Oct 2018
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32mins
Ranked #19
Protecting Jews in Interwar Europe: How International Law Tried and Failed
Protecting Jews in Interwar Europe: How International Law Tried and Failed
Prof. Carole Fink, a scholar specializing in international European history at Ohio State University in the US, tells ho... Read more
6 Apr 2018
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24mins
Ranked #20
Body Politics: Bioethics and Medical Sociology, Revisited
Body Politics: Bioethics and Medical Sociology, Revisited
Dr Hagai Boas, head of the Science, Technology and Civilization Program at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, discusses h... Read more
24 Dec 2018
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33mins