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Israel’s Innovation Minister Farkash-Hacohen: Israel-US technology cooperation needs to be improved
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - October 03, 2022 16:16 - 28 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Israel’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology Orit Farkash-Hacohen. Israel and the United States started this week a strategic dialogue focused on technological cooperation. The minister explains that "climate change, the covid pandemic, the de...
Likud lawmaker Nir Barkat: Iran will continue race towards bomb, with or without deal
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - September 19, 2022 16:15 - 31 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Knesset member for the Likud party Nir Barkat. The legislator just came back from a tour in the United States, where he campaigned against the Iranian nuclear program. Barkat argues that the Iranians do not hide their desire to annihilate Israel, and thu...
Political analyst Attila Somfalvi: Netanyahu threatens Israel’s democracy
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - September 12, 2022 16:05 - 34 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Attila Somfalvi, chief anchor at the Israeli Ynet news site and tv channel. Israel is preparing now for its fifth round of elections in less than four years. Somfalvi, a senior political analyst, says Israeli politics and society have deeply changed in t...
Senior Haaretz editor Amir Tibon: Israel doesn’t have the power to kill Iran deal
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - September 05, 2022 17:01 - 37 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Amir Tibon, who serves as deputy editor for Haaretz’ English edition. Tibon, an expert on Israel-US relations, believes that a nuclear deal with Iran is bound to be eventually reached, as it is in the interest of all the world powers involved in the nego...
Geologist Yossi Langotsky: No additional giant gas discoveries to be expected near Israel
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - August 22, 2022 16:45 - 27 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with veteran geologist Yossi Langostsky, considered the founding father of natural gas discoveries off the Israeli coast. Langotsky recounts that the first discovery took place in 1999, when he himself asked for an exploration-drilling permit for gas and oil,...
Israeli media adviser Keren Hajioff: Gaza operation also a media battlefield for IDF
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - August 15, 2022 15:54 - 32 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Maj. Keren Hajioff, the international spokesperson of Prime Minister Yair Lapid. Haijaoff has been managing relations with foreign media during the recent IDF operation in Gaza. Alongside the exchange of fire on the ground, Israel and Islamic Jihad also ...
Former Israel ambassador to Russia Arkady Mil-Man: Root of Israel-Russia crisis predates Ukraine war
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - August 01, 2022 17:48 - 28 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week to Arkady Mil-man, the head of the Russia program at the Israel National Institute for Security Studies and previously Israel's ambassador to Russia and Azerbaijan. Over the past three weeks, tensions have increased between Moscow and Jerusalem. The reason fo...
Former IDF intelligence chief Tamir Hayman: Israel, Saudi Arabia satisfied with Biden's regional visit
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - July 25, 2022 16:24 - 36 minutesBen Caspit hosts this week Maj. Gen. (res.) Tamir Hayman, the managing director of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). Hayman previously held a number of senior positions within the IDF, including chief of Military Intelligence. Referring to President Joe Biden’s recent ...
J Street's Nadav Tamir: Biden’s engagement with Saudis good for Israel
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - July 18, 2022 15:53 - 37 minutesBen Caspit hosts this week Nadav Tamir, the executive director of J Street Israel. Commenting on US President Joe Biden's visit to the region last week, Tamir welcomed Washington's renewed interest in the Middle East. "I believe the current engagement of Biden with the Saudis is good fo...
Ambassador Mark Regev: Biden’s visit to boost Lapid's image as statesman
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - July 11, 2022 16:05 - 33 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Ambassador Mark Regev. Having served under several governments, Regev says that US President Joe Biden's upcoming visit to Israel will politically serve both the American and the Israeli leaders. "Lapid obviously wants to be seen as a world statesman. Me...
Former Mossad intelligence chief Tomer: IDF, Mossad don’t see eye-to-eye on possible Iran deal
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - July 04, 2022 17:34 - 45 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with the former head of the Israel Mossad's Intelligence division, Haim Tomer. Contrary to the IDF, the Mossad holds the view that Israel should not commit to stopping its activities against Iran. Tomer explains that according to the Mossad’s estimate, clande...
Check Point’s Gil Messing recounts battling sophisticated Iranian hackers
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - June 20, 2022 16:30 - 34 minutesBen Caspit talks this week with Gil Messing, the Chief of Staff and Head of Global Corporate Communications at the Israeli software technologies company Check Point. Messing recounts how his company recently stopped a sophisticated fishing campaign by Iranian hackers, which targeted sen...
Dr. Shivi Greenfield: Orthodox Judaism shies away from the world, modernity
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - June 13, 2022 16:10 - 33 minutesBen Caspit talks this week with Dr. Shivi Greenfield, Deputy Director General at The Jewish Agency and author of the recently-published Hebrew-language book “Judaism and Liberalism.” Addressing the cleavage in Israel between secular and religious, Orthodox and Liberals, extremists and m...
Peace Now’s Hagit Ofran: Settlers holding Israel’s government hostage
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - May 30, 2022 16:26 - 34 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Hagit Ofran, co-director of the Settlement Watch Project at the anti-occupation NGO Peace Now. Police recently detained three Peace Now activists who allegedly intended to reach the West Bank outpost of Homesh with a bulldozer in order to demolish the il...
Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Roll: government not about to fall
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - May 23, 2022 16:22 - 38 minutesBen Caspit hosts this week on his podcast Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Idan Roll. The coalition Roll is part of is fragile, with only 60 parliamentarians supporting it at the Knesset, compared with 60 parliamentarians for the opposition. Still, the deputy minister strongly believes ...
Strategic adviser Yarden Vatikay: Israel now smarter at reacting to PR crises
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - May 16, 2022 16:09 - 45 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Yarden Vatikay, the former director of the national information directorate in the prime minister’s office. The senior strategic adviser speaks about the killing of Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh and the ensuing media storm Israel found itsel...
Israel's Holocaust memorial chairman Dani Dayan: Lavrov's Hitler remark 'classic antisemitism'
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - May 09, 2022 15:13 - 34 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Dani Dayan, the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov caused a diplomatic incident with Israel, Ukraine and the Jewish world last week when he claimed that Hitler had Jewish roots. For Dayan, the cons...
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz: Keeping IRGC on terror list essential
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - May 01, 2022 21:43 - 35 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week to Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz. He notes that his mother survived the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, while Gantz's father fought in Israel’s 1948 Independence War. Gantz, who himself has lost many friends and comrades in the battlefield, says, "We...
Israeli cyber master Nadav Zafrir: Big data, artificial intelligence keys to thwarting terror attacks
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - April 11, 2022 15:17 - 39 minutesBen Caspit hosts this week Brig. Gen. (res) Nadav Zafrir, the former commander of the elite IDF 8200 intelligence unit and currently the founder and managing partner of the cyber company Team8. Israel has suffered three terror attacks within the span of only three weeks. Zafrir notes th...
Counter-terrorism expert Boaz Ganor: Intelligence is key to thwarting terror attacks
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - April 04, 2022 17:52 - 41 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Boaz Ganor, the executive director of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism and the Ronald S. Lauder Chair for Counter-Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. Israel has suffered in the past ten days three terror attacks of dif...
Drone expert Col. Ofer Haruvi: UAVs to revolutionize future battlefield
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - March 28, 2022 15:05 - 34 minutesBen Caspit hosts this week Col. (res.) Ofer Haruvi. After 20 years as a pilot in Israel’s air force, Haruvi co-founded FlightOps, a startup which develops operation systems for drones. Haruvi argues that Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are changing modern battlefields. "Each conflict, we see m...
Ambassador Liel: Zelenskyy’s Knesset speech exposes gaps in perception over the conflict
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - March 21, 2022 16:10 - 37 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Dr. Alon Liel, former Director General of Israel’s Foreign Ministry and former Israeli ambassador to Ankara. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy just finished addressing the Israeli parliament via Zoom, calling on the Jewish state to help his country...
Former Knesset member Svetlova: Israel must be on right side of history on Ukraine
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - March 14, 2022 15:38 - 38 minutesBen Caspit hosts this week former Knesset member Ksenia Svetlova, who grew up in Russia and later made Israel her home. Noting that she still feels shock at the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Svetlova said she keeps herself busy by helping people to evacuate and by writing about what is h...
High-tech investor Erel Margalit: Despite interests in Syria, Israel must stand with Ukraine, US
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - March 07, 2022 18:32 - 39 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Israel's most prominent high-tech entrepreneur, former Knesset member Erel Margalit. Reacting on the current Ukraine crisis, Margalit warns that the dictatorial camp is also carrying out cyber attacks, which is why Israel must be a resolute partner to ot...
Consul General Yaki Dayan: Israel should take clear position on Ukraine
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - February 28, 2022 16:11 - 33 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Yaki Dayan, Israel’s former Consul General in Los Angeles and an expert on Israel-US relations. Dayan comments on reports about Prime Minister Naftali Bennett talking Sunday with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone, offering for Israel to mediate t...
Mideast researcher Jonathan Halevi: Israeli-Islamist movement guided by pragmatism, religion
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - February 21, 2022 16:08 - 37 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Lt. Col. (res.) Jonathan D. Halevi, who currently serves as senior Middle East researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Commenting on the unprecedented decision by the head of the Islamic Ra’am party Mansour Abbas last May to join the rulin...
Police use of Pegasus endangers Israel’s democracy, says communication expert Anat Ben David
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - February 14, 2022 16:14 - 38 minutesBen Caspit hosts this week Anat Ben David, a specialist in communication and professor at the Open University of Israel. Talking about the internal-Israel Pegasus scandal, Ben David says that "cyber-attack tools like NSO’s Pegasus software are in fact unconventional weapons. Their use d...
Security expert Assaf Orion: Israel becoming important security asset for Gulf allies
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - February 07, 2022 16:13 - 39 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Brig. Gen. (res.) Assaf Orion. The senior research fellow at Israel's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) explains that the US is not responding strongly to attacks against the Emirates by Iran and its proxies. It does not make them pay. "And ...
Former Minister Ephraim Sneh warns Israeli, Palestinian extremists generating ethnic conflict
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - January 31, 2022 17:22 - 42 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Gen. (ret.) Ephraim Sneh, a geopolitical expert and former minister. While the current government did change some of its approach to the Palestinians, it is not really presenting any new policies on the issue, argues Sneh. Only one third of the coalition...
Attorney Amit Becher: Netanyahu must decide this week on plea bargain
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - January 24, 2022 18:43 - 36 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with veteran attorney Amit Becher about the possibility of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signing a plea bargain in order to escape prison time. The chairman of the Tel Aviv District of the Israeli Bar Association argues that even though Attorney Ge...
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