Tel Aviv Review
654 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsShowcasing the latest developments in the realm of academic and professional research and literature, about the Middle East and global affairs. We discuss Israeli, Arab and Palestinian society, the Jewish world, the Middle East and its conflicts, and issues of global and public affairs with scholars, writers and deep-thinkers.
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On Hell and Other People: The Enduring Relevance of Existentialism
August 13, 2018 05:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBDr. Dror Yinon of the Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies at Bar-Ilan University reviews a series of lectures on Existentialism that recently took place at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. He lays out the fundamentals of this philosophical tradition and analyzes its ongoing relevance in the age of populism and post-truth. This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the socia...
Living in Denial: A 21st-Century Story
August 06, 2018 05:00 - 32 minutes - 22 MBDr. Keith Kahn-Harris, a British sociologist and commentator, discusses his new book Denial: The Unspeakable Truth. It attempts to analyze the emergence and growing prevalence of denialism - a quasi-nihilist reflex that subsumed healthy skepticism and fact-based debate. This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel. Tel Aviv Review is also supported by th...
A Road to Forgiveness: How Societies Cope with Collective Trauma
July 30, 2018 05:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBHow do societies recover from major violence and terrible injustice? How do they cope with collective trauma, perpetrators, guilt, and is there a road to forgiveness? Professor Ruti Teitel was among the pioneering scholars to probe the complex mechanisms societies use to exorcise the demons of conflict. Transitional justice is now central to understanding conflict and integral to resolution, largely due to her work. Teitel discusses her latest book, and the role of transitional justice in ...
On the Media: Public Broadcasting, Regulation and Press Freedom in Israel
July 23, 2018 05:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBDr. Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Democratic Values and Institutions, the head of the Media Reform Program and the Open Government Program at the Israel Democracy Institute. She joins hosts Dahlia Scheindlin and Gilad Halpern to discuss media policy in Israel and the way government interference may infringe on the country's relatively robust freedom of the press. This episode of the Tel Aviv Review was brought to you by the Israel Democracy Institute, an in...
My Kingdom for a Constitution
July 20, 2018 05:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBYedidia Stern is worried about disturbing the balance of a Jewish and democratic state, as the nation-state law threatens to do. He believes that Israel must be a Jewish state, but without a legal anchor for equality, society is in trouble. Religious life is being dominated by the ultra-orthodox; diaspora Jews, especially Americans, should have a say in public life but not too much. Legal scholar and Vice President of the Israel Democracy Institute speaks to us about the fundamental nature o...
Business and Human Rights: A Contradiction in Terms?
July 16, 2018 05:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBCan we reconcile between business development and safeguarding human rights? David Bilchitz, professor of law at the University of Johannesburg, proposes a legal framework to do just that in his new book, “Building a Treaty on Business and Human Rights: Contexts and Contours” (Cambridge University Press). This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel. Tel...
Live from the 2018 AIS Conference: The ‘Berkeley School’ Approach to Hebrew Literature
July 09, 2018 09:43 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MBOn this plenary session at the 2018 annual conference of the Association for Israel Studies, recorded at the University of California at Berkeley, Tel Aviv Review host Gilad Halpern, Prof. Chana Kronfeld and Dr Yael Segalovitz discuss the attempts to "de-ghettoize" Hebrew literature and study it in a broader and richer context, as well as the intercultural exchanges with other types of literature, Jewish and non-Jewish. This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Je...
The Survival of the Sentient: The Evolution of the Soul
July 02, 2018 05:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBProf. Eva Jablonka, a philosopher of science at Tel Aviv University, discusses her forthcoming book The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul. Can we establish the development of conscience within the evolution process? And if so, how? This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.
Quo Vadis, IDF?
June 25, 2018 05:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBThe role of the IDF in Israeli life cannot be overstated, past and present. But the country, and the army, are changing. So are the missions Israel undertakes and the nature of warfare. Why is the famous people's army seeing fewer and fewer Israelis turn up for the draft? What are the demographic characteristics of those who do serve, is the army a melting pot or a social hierarchy and what about the "P" word - a professional army? Yuval Shany & Amichai Cohen of the Israel Democracy Instit...
Babel in Zion: The Inculcation of Hebrew in Pre-State Israel
June 22, 2018 05:00 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MBDr. Liora Halperin, assistant professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, author of Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism and Language Diversity in Palestine 1920-1948, tells host Gilad Halpern about the ideological as well as the practical aspects of the inculcation of the Hebrew language in pre-state Israel. This episode originally aired June 26, 2015.
Bibi: The King is Alive, Long Live the King
June 18, 2018 05:00 - 39 minutes - 26.8 MBBenjamin Netanyahu's endurance as Prime Minister is matched only by his mystique: what lies behind his grip on Israeli society? How did he climb to the top, and what is the price of his long stay at the summit? Anshel Pfeffer, of Haaretz and the Economist, has a new biography of Netanyahu following his strange brew of intellect and populism, poor taste and fine legal lines, fierce family loyalty and shameless political-self-promotion. This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by ...
Never Again? East German and Radical Left West German Attitudes to Israel
June 15, 2018 05:00 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MBJeffrey Herf, a distinguished professor of history at the University of Maryland, talks to host Gilad Halpern about the attitude of East Germany and the West German radical left towards Israel between 1967-1989, against the backdrop of the memory of the Holocaust as well as the Cold War. This episode originally aired on June 23, 2015.
Occupation: The Law Gives and the Law Takes Away
June 11, 2018 05:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBMichael Sfard, one of Israel’s leading human rights lawyers, chronicles the evolution of the legal pillars of Israel’s military occupation of Palestinians, including deportation, settlements, torture policies and more. But his brand-new book The Wall and the Gate, Sfard also tells of the lives and legal struggles of people who fight the policy with its very own tools: in Israeli courts. For each emerging body of law assisting occupation, there is a relentless human rights lawyer campaigning ...
Shifting Attitudes Towards Israel and Zionism
June 08, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBFor South African Jews, support for Israel has ceased to be the one thing they can all agree upon. Three distinguished panelists debate the meaning, old and new, of engaging with Israel as South African Jews. Panelists: Michael Bagraim, an attorney and member of parliament for the Democratic Alliance, the opposition party, as well as a member and formerly the president of the South African Board of Jewish Deputies Dr Sally Frankental, a retired lecturer in anthropology at the University...
Private Eyes: Data, Metadata and Civil Rights
June 04, 2018 05:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBHow did a country with the world's most advanced surveillance technology and minimal restrictions on using it end up with a citizenry that hardly minds? Israelis have displayed almost none of the data-squeamishness of their American and European counterparts, as long as it adds to national security. But the nature of data is changing. Professor Yuval Shany of the Israel Democracy Institute explains why it may be time to rein in the authorities, for the sake of the citizens. This episode of...
Portrait of an Artist as a Feisty Activist
May 28, 2018 05:00 - 32 minutes - 22 MBIsn’t art always political, and when it is not, is it just bad art? And what is the role of art in shaping our political outlook, when the Israeli reality offers little escape from politics? Joshua Simon, a writer, editor and curator, will moderate a round-table discussion dedicated to those issues and more, with leading artists, thinkers and cultural critics. He offers hosts Gilad Halpern and Dahlia Scheindlin a glimpse. This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Lee...
Ignorance is Bliss? Black Africans' Attitudes Towards Jews
May 25, 2018 05:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBDr Adam Mendelson, a historian and the director of the Kaplan Center for Jewish Studies and Research at the University of Cape Town, discusses his recently completed and trailblazing study that seeks to map out the attitudes and perceptions of Black South Africans towards Jewish people in three major urban areas in the country. This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social dis...
How Did a Palestinian Terrorist Become Israel's National Heart-Throb?
May 21, 2018 05:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBHow do you fight a war by becoming the enemy and still keep your identity? Who are the good guys who are the bad guys? What's the best action series on television today, why is it a psychological drama as much as a shoot 'em up, and is it real, fake, fair? As Season 2 hits Netflix, Avi Issacharoff, the co-creator of hit TV series “Fauda,” tells all. This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal va...
Looking Back: Memories of an Anti-Apartheid Activist
May 18, 2018 05:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MB“I never thought I'd go back to live in South Africa,” says Lorna Levy, a trade unionist and anti-Apartheid activist who spent decades in exile after being banned from her native South Africa. In her memoir, Radical Engagements: A Life in Exile, she reflects on her almost accidental activism, starting in her student days in 1950s Johannesburg. This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values i...
Everything You Knew about Israel's Economy is Wrong
May 14, 2018 05:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBWhat does economic history have to do with a country's national identity? In Israel's case, a great deal. The myth of a socialist ideal morphing into a neo-liberal global powerhouse is captivating but contains far more complex processes, and many run contrary to the national self-image. Follow the gestation and birth of Israel's economy under the shadow of war, peace and privatization in a discussion with Dr Arie Krampf about his book “The Israeli Path to Neo-Liberalism: The State, Continuit...
Black Lives Matter: Identity Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa
May 11, 2018 05:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBProf. Deborah Posel, a sociologist at the Institute for Humanities in Africa at the University of Cape Town, analyzes how racial tensions have played out in South Africa since the end of Apartheid in 1994. This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.
Why Hast Thou Forsaken Us: Shas' Post-Revolutionary Crisis
May 07, 2018 05:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBYair Ettinger, a journalist and researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute's "Ultra-Orthodox in Israel" program as well as a fellow at the Hartman Institute in New York, is the co-author, together with Nissim Leon, of the recently published book A Flock With No Shepherd: Shas Leadership The Day After Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. It analyzes the causes of the movement's identity, leadership and popularity woes, some resulting from and others coinciding with the death of its towering founder and sp...
The Other Goldene Medina: The History of South African Jewry
May 04, 2018 05:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBMilton Shain, emeritus professor of history at the University of Cape Town, specializing in the history of Jews and anti-Semitism in South Africa, tells the very different story of a Jewish settlement in the New World. This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.
Moral Equivalency of Hate
April 30, 2018 05:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBWhat does radical Islam have in common with right wing extremism? Much, it turns out. From the perception of existential, apocalyptic threat to the sense of historic mission as saviors of their people, the two sides have more in common than either want to admit. Julia Ebner's book “The Rage: The Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far Right Extremism” shows why each side exists in a world of obsession with the other; and proposes how to mitigate the pull of extremism that preys on the young. Th...
The Prince: The Emergence of Elites in Early 20th-Century Saudi Arabia
April 27, 2018 05:00 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MBIn our minds, Saudi Arabia, to this day, has been an ultraconservative, almost medieval society, with a clear hierarchy and a coercive leadership. But it turns out that is not exactly the case. Nachum Shiloh discusses his research that focuses on the history of Saudi elites in the first half of the 20th century. This episode originally aired June 6, 2015.
Malka Marom's Great Canadian Songbook: Joni, Leonard and I
April 23, 2018 05:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBWhen Malka Marom, a Canadian-Israeli musician and broadcaster, walked into a destitute Toronto night club in 1966, she was swept off her feet. The music, played by Joni Mitchell, mousy-looking and still unknown, was unlike anything she had heard before. Soon thereafter, they became lifelong friends; Marom's book Joni Mitchell in Her Own Words is a compilation of conversations they had over a 40-year period. She is now working on another book, featuring conversations with another great Canadi...
The Myth of the Cultural Jew
April 20, 2018 05:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBProf. Roberta Ronsethal Kwall, a legal scholar and the founding director of the DePaul University College of Law, has just authored a new book entitled The Myth of the Cultural Jew – Culture and Law in Jewish Tradition. She explains to host Gilad Halpern why even the most secular Jews have imbibed the halakha, whether they like it or not. This episode originally aired June 5, 2015.
Israel and Hezbollah Get MAD
April 16, 2018 05:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBIf another war breaks out between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, it could "turn Lebanon into a car park," and take down wholesale targets in Tel Aviv, says longtime journalist and author, the Lebanon expert Nicholas Blanford. He argues that one of the only hopes for avoiding war is that each side is fully aware that a new round could mean mutually assured destruction, or at least severe devastation. Yet it might only take some damned foolish thing in the desert to spark that war. This se...
How Jews in the Jim Crow South Labored to be White
April 13, 2018 05:00 - 18 minutes - 12.8 MBDr. Caroline Light of the Program in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Harvard University talks with host Gilad Halpern about her recent book, That Pride of Race and Character: The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South. It analyses the circumstances that led to the establishment of a sizable Jewish charity network in the American South in the post-Reconstruction period. This episode originally aired April 18, 2015.
Pride and Prejudice: The State of Israeli Democracy at 70
April 09, 2018 09:06 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBYohanan Plesner, the president of the Israel Democracy Institute, joins us to discuss the past accomplishments and future challenges of democracy in Israel. Ahead of the 70th Independence Day celebrations, the IDI will launch the Democracy Pavilion along the Independence Trail in Tel Aviv, with a view to celebrating its many achievements and educating local and international visitors about its importance. This episode of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by the Israel Democracy Institut...
Protecting Jews in Interwar Europe: How International Law Tried and Failed
April 06, 2018 05:00 - 24 minutes - 17.2 MBProf. Carole Fink, a scholar specializing in international European history at Ohio State University in the US, tells host Gilad Halpern about how Europe's Jews fit into the numerous minority protection schemes that emerged on the continent in the interwar period, and about the road to their catastrophic breakdown. This episode originally aired March 27, 2015.
Imagined Religion: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Judaism
April 02, 2018 05:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBDaniel Boyarin, Professor of Talmudic Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses his forthcoming book “Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notions”, in which he argues that Judaism, as a full-blown concept, is a modern creation. This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.
The Birth of the Cosmopolitan Jew
March 30, 2018 05:00 - 21 minutes - 14.5 MBProf. Sander Gilman, who teaches history at Emory University in the United States, is an extremely prolific academic with a vast spectrum of fields of expertise. He discusses his cleverly entitled study, “Aliens vs Predators: Cosmopolitan Jews vs Jewish Nomads.” This episode originally aired March 20, 2015.
Oh Lordy: Reza Aslan on His ‘God: A Human History’
March 26, 2018 05:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBWhy do we believe? After writing books about the god of Islam and Jesus of Nazareth, religion scholar Reza Aslan takes on the biggest question of all: What does “God” mean, anyway? Aslan comes to the surprising answer that God looks a lot like humans. Does this make him a deep believer or an atheist? Is God everywhere or nowhere? Find out in this interview about his latest book, “God: A Human History.” This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute,...
Israeli Conscientious Objectors: Torn Between Values and Struggle for Survival
March 23, 2018 06:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBDr. Erica Weiss, Tel Aviv University anthropologist and author of “Conscientious Objectors in Israel: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty”, tackles the concept of conscientious objection in Israel – a democratic society that honors the freedom of conscience while fighting for its survival. This episode originally aired March 15, 2015.
Jews, Colonialism and Whiteness: The Latin American Case
March 19, 2018 06:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBDr Martina Weisz, a research fellow at the Hebrew University's Vidal Sassoon Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism, discusses the place of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese colonial project, which started immediately after the momentous expulsion of the Jews from these countries, in the late 15th century. This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Isra...
American Zion: The Old Testament in Early American Political Thought
March 16, 2018 06:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBDr. Eran Shalev of the Department of General History at the University of Haifa, author of American Zion: The Old Testament as Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil War, traces the theological and ideological origins of the special relationship between Israel and America. This episode originally aired March 7th, 2015.
Squaring the Circle: Islamic Theologians' Encounter with Modernity
March 12, 2018 06:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBProf. Uriya Shavit, the head of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies and of the Religious Studies Program at Tel Aviv University, discusses his new book Scientific and Political Freedom in Islam: A Critical Reading of the Modernist-Apologetic School, which explores Islamic theologians' efforts to harmonize religion, science and modern systems of government. This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic...
All Her Daughters: The Story of Jerusalem’s Legendary Headmistress
March 09, 2018 06:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MBProf. Laura Schor, a historian at Hunter College in New York and author of The Best School in Jerusalem: Annie Landau’s School for Girls 1900-1960, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the extraordinary character of Annie Landau, a British ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman who was a high-profile public figure in Jerusalem during one of its most tumultuous periods. This episode originally aired March 6, 2015.
Men, Women and Children of the World: The Impact of Globalization on the Family
March 05, 2018 06:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBProf. Daphna Hacker, an associate professor of law and gender studies at Tel Aviv University, discusses her new book Legalized Families in the Era of Bordered Globalization, which explores a phenomenon that is as understudied as it is widespread. This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.
Israel’s Bedouin: Straddling the Line Between Tradition and Modernity
March 02, 2018 06:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MBDr. Sarab Abu Rabia-Queder, a researcher at the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research at Ben-Gurion University, specializes in the impact of higher education on Bedouin women. Herself of Bedouin origin and an activist for Bedouin rights, she talks to host Gilad Halpern about the nomadic people who live mainly in the south of Israel, and how they straddle the line between tradition and modernity, and between their Arab identity and the State of Israel. This episode originally aire...
The Only Game in Town: Navigating the Conversion Charade
February 26, 2018 06:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MBDr Michal Kravel Tovi, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at Tel Aviv University, discusses her new book When the State Winks: The Performance of Jewish Conversions in Israel, an ethnographic account of the arduous conversion process female migrants from the former USSR choose to undergo in the hope that it would accelerate their integration into Israeli society. This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanisti...
Ramle Remade: The Israelization of an Arab Town
February 23, 2018 06:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBDr. Danna Piroyansky, author of Ramle Remade: The Israelization of an Arab Town 1948-1967, discusses the very Israeli concept of ‘mixed cities’ – the result of government-sanctioned mixing of Jewish and Arab populations. How did it come about in Ramle, a town in the south-eastern coastal plain that was 100 percent Arab Palestinian up until the 1948 War of Independence, and was subsequently populated with Jewish immigrants? This episode originally aired Feb. 21, 2015.
My Halakha, Your Halakha: Between Jewish Law and Jewish Life
February 19, 2018 10:46 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBDr. Leon Wiener Dow, a fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, discusses his new book, The Going: A Meditation on Jewish Law, an autobiographical and theological exploration of the relationship between God, law prayer, practice and community in Jewish law. Check out the extra segment for this episode on patreon.com/telavivreview This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values i...
What Did the Crusaders Ever Learn from Us?
February 16, 2018 06:00 - 22 minutes - 15.5 MBThis episode originally aired on Feb. 20, 2015. Dr. Jonathan Rubin, a historian of the Medieval Levant at Tel Aviv University, specializes in the production of knowledge in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the 12th and 13th centuries. He talks to host Gilad Halpern about how the Crusaders' encounters with local societies - beyond the initial indignation - led to theological, economic, and scientific developments.
Get to Know Gaza Before the Next War
February 12, 2018 06:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBWith a severe humanitarian and economic crisis, another Gaza war could well be on its way. But Gaza is not only the packed, imprisoned and impoverished strip of misery. It is a place where high school students learn Shakespeare, whose residents have been to hell and kept their pride. Why isn't it a Singapore by the sea, and is there any hope or route to improvement? Veteran journalist Donald Macintyre brings years of firsthand reporting to his deeply informative and equally colorful book Gaz...
Middle-of-the-Road Judaism: The Emergence of Modern Orthodoxy
February 09, 2018 06:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBThis episode originally aired Feb. 13, 2015 Dr. Ephraim Chamiel, a lecturer and scholar of Jewish thought in the modern era, explains who were the Jewish philosophers who sought to harmonize modernity and tradition. His book, "The Middle Way: The Emergence of Modern Religious Trends in Nineteenth-Century Judaism," is available in English.
No Arbitration Without Representation: Alternative Court Systems in America
February 05, 2018 06:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBMichael Broyde, professor of law at Emory University and former rabbinical judge, discusses the constitutional, legal and societal implications of track two arbitration in the contemporary United States, which are the topic of his new book Sharia Tribunals, Rabbinical Courts and Christian Panels: Religious Arbitration in America and the West. This episode comes with bonus material for patrons only: www.patreon.com/telavivreview This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The V...
Portrait of the Father of a Nation
February 02, 2018 06:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBThis episode originally aired Feb. 6, 2015 Prof. Anita Shapira, one of Israel's most eminent historians of Zionism, discusses her biography of David Ben-Gurion, Israel's founding prime minister.
If Someone Comes to Kill You: Exposing Israel’s History of Targeted Assassinations
January 30, 2018 19:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBRise and Kill First reveals Israel's deadliest secrets. The history of targeted assassinations precedes the establishment of the state and continues to the present. Israel has killed terrorists, political figures, nuclear scientists, former Nazis and a UN negotiator; questions still swirl around the death of Arafat. When does Israel strike, and when does it abort a mission? Ronen Bergman's exposé obtains material never before released, and he talks with people who never talk. Here he discu...