Latest Tel aviv Podcast Episodes
Peace-maker Yossi Beilin: Israeli government clear on refusing to meet Palestinian side
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - January 10, 2022 15:00 - 45 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with former Justice Minister Yossi Beilin, who was one of the main architects of the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians. Beilin is pessimistic about the government of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett launching any sort of talks with the Palestinians. “Since 201...
Tel Aviv media chief says city is ‘the New York of Israel’
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - January 03, 2022 17:00 - 38 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Eytan Schwartz, who heads the Tel Aviv Municipality Media and Communications Department. Schwartz and his colleagues at the municipality dissociate themselves from the term “The State of Tel Aviv,” which implies that Tel Aviv residents allegedly do not c...
General Kuperwasser: Israel must hope for the collapse of Vienna Iran talks
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - December 27, 2021 16:09 - 35 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, currently the director of the Project on Regional Middle East Developments at the Jerusalem Center. Kuperwasser, who previously headed the strategic affairs ministry and also the IDF research division, is considered a...
Israeli journalist Barak Ravid tells how the Abraham Accords came about
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - December 20, 2021 17:10 - 40 minutesBen Caspit hosts this week on his podcast Israeli diplomatic correspondent Barak Ravid of Channel 13 News and Axios. Ravid just published his first book, which is about the Trump and Netanyahu era and the Abraham Accords. "For me, the Abraham Accords were really the biggest break-throug...
Former Israeli national security adviser: US is playing into Iran’s hands in Vienna
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - December 13, 2021 11:00 - 38 minutesOn his podcast this week, Ben Caspit hosts Brig. Gen. (res) Prof. Jacob Nagel, the former Israeli acting National Security Advisor. The ups and downs in the talks conducted these days in Vienna, says Nagel, are not real drama. These are well-orchestrated stories that the Iranians are ru...
Raz Zimmt: Trump-Netanyahu’s Iran strategy pushed Tehran in the wrong direction
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - December 06, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Dr. Raz Zimmt, an expert on Iran at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). Zimmt says that the strategy espoused at the time by then-President Donald Trump and then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against Iran was obviously flawed, as it d...
Digital entrepreneur Yonatan Adiri: Israel could double GDP with startup advancement
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - November 29, 2021 16:50 - 37 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Yonatan Adiri, a leading Israeli digital healthcare entrepreneur. Adiri, a former adviser of late President Shimon Peres, explains that most of Israel’s startup leadership is avantgarde, pushing forward visions for the next internet wave. "Companies like...
Israeli environment minister: Country at high risk over climate change
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - November 22, 2021 16:12 - 36 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg. The minister explains that while Israel is a small country in terms of population and its contribution to global pollution, it is also very fragile in terms of the effects of climate change such as bush f...
International media expert Peter Lerner: Ignoring BDS is an ineffective strategy for Israel
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - November 15, 2021 16:11 - 37 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Lt. Col. (res.) Peter Lerner, the former director of international media at the IDF's spokesperson’s office. Commenting on Israel’s repeated failures in the field of public diplomacy, Lerner says that “In Israel, we are very good at improvising, we are f...
Washington Institute’s Makovsky: Biden & Bennett prefer to keep disagreements discrete
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - November 08, 2021 16:12 - 41 minutesBen Caspit hosts this week on his podcast David Makovsky, the Ziegler distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Commenting on recent signs of tensions between Washington and Jerusalem on the Palestinian issue and other topics, Makovsky says that “We have a s...
Geneva Initiative Director Baltiansky: No real crisis in Biden-Bennett relations
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - November 01, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Geneva Initiative-Israel Director General Gadi Baltiansky. Commenting on the recent decision by Israeli authorities to advance construction of homes in West Bank settlements, Baltiansky says that "the Americans don’t want a confrontation with the Israeli...
Military correspondent Alon Ben David: Israel cannot destroy Iranian nuclear know-how
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - October 25, 2021 07:00 - 32 minutesBen Caspit hosts this week Alon Ben David, the senior military analyst for Channel 13 news. Ben David says that "in 2012 Israel abandoned practicing and preparing for a viable military option [to attack Iran]. Netanyahu was responding to requests made by the American administration at t...
Geopolitical expert Eyal Zisser: A Lebanese civil war won’t really threaten Israel
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - October 18, 2021 15:12 - 35 minutesBen Caspit talks this week to Dr. Eyal Zisser of Tel Aviv University. Zisser, an expert on Syria and Lebanon, reacts to recent incidents in Beirut, noting that while Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah is strong, he also has his own constraints and sources of weakness — parti...
International security expert Eviatar Matania: 40% of global cyber investments reach Israel
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - October 11, 2021 16:50 - 39 minutesBen Caspit hosts this week on his podcast Professor Eviatar Matania of Tel-Aviv University, who has played a key role in turning Israel into a world cyber power. The book he coauthored recently with Amir Rapaport, titled Cybermania, has created a stir in Israel and elsewhere. Matania ex...
Analyst Shmuel Rosner: With Israel’s Bennett, American Jews hoping for a fresh start
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - October 04, 2021 15:28 - 35 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Shmuel Rosner, the political editor of the Jewish Journal and a long-time contributor to the New York Times. Rosner says that the recent meeting in New York of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett with leaders of the American Jewish community was successful, f...
Dana Weiss: Bennett’s government here to stay
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - September 20, 2021 15:13 - 34 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Channel 12’s diplomatic correspondent Dana Weiss. The senior analyst comments about Prime Minister Naftali Bennett appearing on Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of 2021. What is amazing, she notes, is not that Bennett was included ...
Michael Oren: Israel must build case legitimizing possible action against Iran
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - September 13, 2021 15:00 - 34 minutesBen Caspit hosts this week Israel’s former ambassador to the United States Michael Oren. Ambassador Oren explains that while former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approach made the Iranian threat an Israeli issue, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is trying to internationalize it agai...
Knesset member Yossi Shain: US needs to work with Israel on new regional alliances, Iran
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - September 06, 2021 07:00 - 39 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Professor Yossi Shain, an international expert on political science who recently left the academic world to join Israeli politics. The new member of the Knesset from Yisrael Beitenu says that after the United States' painful withdrawal from Afghanistan, ...
NEST CEO Moty Cristal hails Bennett's first meeting with Biden
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - August 30, 2021 15:10 - 35 minutesBen Caspit talks this week with Moty Cristal, CEO and founder of NEST Consulting. Lt. Col. (res) Cristal, who served in the past as a negotiator and adviser in the prime minister’s office, comments on the Aug. 27 meeting between US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali ...
Environmentalist Maya Jacobs: Israel's new government not interested in climate change
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - August 16, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Maya Jacobs, who heads Israeli NGO Zalul Environmental Association. For Jacobs, even though the new cabinet calls itself the government of change, no real change has been seen on environmental issues and no real commitment was made to addressing the dang...
Danny Citrinowicz: Hezbollah’s political position in Lebanon is weakening
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - August 09, 2021 15:08 - 36 minutesBen speaks this week with Maj. (res.) Danny Citrinowicz, one of Israel’s most notable experts on Iran, its proxies in the region and its nuclear ambitions. Citrinowicz refers to the barrage of 19 rockets fired by Hezbollah against Israel last Friday. He explains that Hezbollah’s main co...
Meretz legislator Gaby Lasky: Israel's ruling coalition divided ideologically, but united on bettering citizens’ lives
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - August 02, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutesBen hosts this week legislator Gaby Lasky of the leftwing Meretz party. Lasky, a human rights activist who had served as head of anti-occupation NGO Peace Now, is now member of the new ruling coalition, headed by pro-settler Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. Lasky says that five months ag...
NSO officials comment on Pegasus spyware affair: We are self-regulated on right for privacy, transparency
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - July 26, 2021 15:17 - 41 minutesFollowing recent revelations that governments were spying on journalists, opposition politicians, activists and others using Pegasus spyware, Ben speaks this week with two representatives of NSO Group, the company that developed Pegasus. Brig. Gen. (res.) Ariella Ben Avraham currently s...
Major General Noam Tibon: IDF needs more boots on the ground
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - July 19, 2021 15:00 - 39 minutesThis week Ben speaks with retired Israeli Major General Noam Tibon, who is specialized in counter-terrorism and homeland security. The former Commander of the Northern Formation commented on statements made last week by outgoing IDF Deputy Chief Yoav Zamir about the IDF becoming too sma...
Ambassador Haim Koren: Bennett seeks to boost Israel’s ties with Jordan
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - July 12, 2021 15:21 - 43 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with former ambassador Dr. Haim Koren. The former envoy to Egypt and South Sudan says that all Israeli governments, including the new government under the leadership of Naftali Bennett, have been and are interested in preserving and developing strategic relat...
Israel’s Diaspora Minister Nachman Shai calls for renewing dialogue with American Jews
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - July 05, 2021 16:40 - 35 minutesBen Caspit speaks with Minister of Diaspora Affairs Dr. Nachman Shai, who came back this week from a mission to Miami. The minister had accompanied an Israeli rescue team sent there to assist recovery efforts at the site of the collapsed building. Referring to the deterioration in Israe...
World Zionist Organization’s Yizhar Hess: Israel’s new government must mend rift with American Jews
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - June 21, 2021 15:06 - 36 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with Yizhar Hess, vice chairman of the World Zionist Organization. Discussing the crisis created by the former government vis-à-vis the Jewish diaspora in general — and American Jews in particular — Hess says he is now pinning his hopes on the new government ...
Former PM Olmert calls Netanyahu’s behavior at swearing-in of new PM 'shameful’
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - June 14, 2021 15:11 - 38 minutesBen Caspit hosts this week former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Speaking just minutes after the swearing-in ceremony of the new government, Olmert says former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his "thugs" in the Knesset behaved shamefully, yelling and shouting at Israel’s new PM Nafta...
Netanyahu fears Israel could manage without him, says strategic adviser Oren Magnezy
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - June 07, 2021 15:00 - 39 minutesOn the backdrop of an especially turbulent week in Israeli politics, Ben Caspit speaks with Oren Magnezy, co-founder of a business accelerator that helps Israeli start-ups work with the US Department of Defense. The former strategic adviser to prime ministers Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmer...
Former MK Ruth Wasserman Lande: riots in mixed cities caused significant damage, trauma
On Israel with Ben Caspit, an Al-Monitor podcast - May 31, 2021 16:57 - 38 minutesBen Caspit speaks this week with former Blue and White Knesset member Ruth Wasserman Lande. Wasserman, a strategic expert, public speaker and Middle East affairs’ commentator, talks about recent clashes in Jewish-Arab mixed cities, arguing there was no symmetry between attacks on Jews a...
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