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How Israel’s Olympic hero challenged a nation’s identity
Haaretz Podcast
English - August 02, 2021 17:19 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MB - ★★★★ - 129 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: The cost of kosher: How Israel plans to end the rabbis’ stranglehold
Host Simon Spungin is joined by Noa Landau and Anshel Pfeffer to discuss Artem Dolgopyat’s historic Olympic gold medal in gymnastics – his country’s second ever and its first in one of the core Olympic disciplines. Will Dolgopyat, who is not halakhically Jewish and cannot marry in the country, lead to a national rethink on the relationship between religion and state? PLUS: What’s behind the government’s rush to give citizens a third COVID vaccine shot?
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