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A year after a settler shot Awdah Hathaleen, his village still can't mourn in peace
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- A year after a settler shot Awdah Hathaleen, his village still can't mourn in peace
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- 2:25
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- 1 day ago
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- One year after Awdah Hathaleen was killed by an Israeli settler in his hometown of Umm al-Khair in the West Bank, residents gathered to remember him. Minutes into the memorial, Israeli army and police forces declared the area a closed military zone and shut down the ceremony. For his family and community, the struggle to mourn continues | Abby Seitz, Nagham Zbeedat and Shira Shechter
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Credit: Shira Shechter
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- Could a Jewish politician joining an Islamist party shake up Israel's elections?
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- 36:56
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- 3 days ago
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- Gadi Eisenkot "hasn't finished his rise" in the polls after his party, Yashar, has overtaken Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party for several weeks in a row, while the potential coalition of opposition parties is soaring past that of the current government, said Haaretz columnist Dahlia Scheindlin, speaking on the Haaretz Podcast.
Scheindlin, a veteran political strategist and analyst, noted that even the right-wing pollsters, who are heavily biased in favor of Netanyahu's coalition, are showing numbers that point to "a decline ever since the ceasefire and the war with Iran," reflecting perceptions among supporters who once "saw him as a great global statesperson."
The podcast panel, including Haaretz correspondent Nagham Zbeedat and host Allison Kaplan Sommer, reviewed the noteworthy political events of the past week, most prominently the intriguing news that could shake up the coalition mathematics: the Arab Islamist Ra'am Party's plans to invite ...
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- In Michigan, Jews Ponder Their Place in the Democratic Party
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- 1:10
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- 3 days ago
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- Michigan – home to a sizable Jewish population and the largest Arab American community in the U.S. – is seeing a primary in which Israel has become the focal issue. While Michigan’s Jews are rallying behind Haley Stevens, many fear the increasing likelihood that Abdul El-Sayed will come out on top on Tuesday | Etan Nechin
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- In Dearborn, Beating AIPAC May Be the Real Prize
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- 1:32
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- 4 days ago
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- Haaretz In Dearborn, Michigan:
In America's largest Arab community, excitement was palpable ahead of the Michigan primary, where Abdul El-Sayed is leading Rep. Haley Stevens for the Democratic Party's Senate nomination, in a primary elections that concern more than only a nominee for the upcoming midterms | Etan Nechin
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- This Israeli ultra-Orthodox feminist activist has a warning for U.S. Jews
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- 0:56
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- 4 days ago
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- On this week's Haaretz Podcast, guest host Joshua Leifer talks to Pnina Pfeuffer, a liberal, feminist ultra-Orthodox social activist. The Jerusalem-based Pfeuff https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/podcasts/2026-07-31/ty-article-podcast/.premium/this-israeli-ultra-orthodox-feminist-activist-has-a-warning-for-u-s-jews/0000019f-b789-d3fa-a19f-bf9917ea0000?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=youtube
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- This Israeli ultra-Orthodox feminist activist has a warning for U.S. Jews
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- 36:41
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- 6 days ago
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- On this week’s Haaretz Podcast, guest host Joshua Leifer talks to Pnina Pfeuffer, a liberal, feminist ultra-Orthodox social activist. The Jerusalem-based Pfeuffer, CEO of the New Haredim, recently petitioned against a Knesset bill that would permit gender-segregated study tracks for master's and doctoral degrees in Israeli academic institutions.
Pfeuffer represents a growing minority inside the Israeli ultra-Orthodox public that is interested in “full citizenship, with full obligations and rights” in the Jewish State. This is a public that wants the Israeli government to enforce the military draft on Haredim and teach math and English in Haredi schools, instead of continuing the de facto Haredi autonomy in which many Israeli rules and norms are absent.
According to Pfeuffer, the Haredi community reflects Israel as a whole, and younger Haredim - like their secular and religious Zionist counterparts - are radicalizing, and are more right wing than the...
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- Three months to Israel's elections: why is Netanyahu really going to Washington?
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- 33:03
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- 10 days ago
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- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence on traveling to the White House three months before the Israeli election signals his desperation to boost his sinking fortunes at the polls, Haaretz senior columnist Esther Solomon told the Haaretz Election Podcast.
Despite his unpopularity with major portions of both American political parties and his turbulent relationship with President Donald Trump regarding the ongoing conflict with Iran, the Israeli leader “does still think that a photo op with Trump is going to play well for him, even though it's not entirely clear if Trump is going to provide exactly the kind of celebratory hugs” he wishes for, Solomon said.
But in his current political situation, the Israeli leader “has to pull out every single stop, and he is doing that across the board. Whether it's in terms of military operations, every kind of political manipulation or strategy that he has, in order to pull every last possible vote for the...
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- The West Bank Settlers Drifting Away From Israel's Far Right
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- 1:03
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- 10 days ago
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- Situated in the Gush Etzion bloc outside Jerusalem, Alon Shvut is considered a moderate settlement. Still, opinions on the current government are split, with some applauding its most radical-right ministers for blocking any chance of a Palestinian state | Judy Maltz
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- Could This Ex-IDF Chief Replace Netanyahu?
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- 1:50
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- 13 days ago
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- Several polls put Gadi Eisenkot in a leading position to become Israel's next prime minister. Could he defeat Benjamin Netanyahu? | Linda Dayan Explains
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- 'An extreme right-wing Israel can't just pour billions into PR and expect its U.S. image to improve'
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- 31:16
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- 14 days ago
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- Both Israeli leaders and the Israeli public – lulled by both President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden’s backing of Israel – are utterly unprepared for the generational tsunami taking place when it comes to American support for the Jewish state, Haaretz’s opinions editor Amir Tibon told the Haaretz Podcast
"Approximately 60 percent of Americans have a negative view of Israel, and the younger you go, the worse it gets – we're close to 80 percent," said Tibon, who previously served as Haaretz’s Washington and diplomatic correspondent. "Israelis are looking at the top line, which is what does Trump have to say about us? And they're ignoring the iceberg, which is hidden underneath the daily Trump noise, of negative views of the country."
"We’re going to have a lot of problems once this older generation leaves the American political scene, and most Israelis don't understand it yet," he said.
In his conversation with podcas...
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- The Settlers Marching to Reoccupy Gaza
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- 1:29
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- 16 days ago
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- Thousands march in the Zikim dunes, bear the Gaza border, calling to establish settlements deep in northern Gaza “even before the elections” | Yair Foldes
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- ‘What if there aren't free and fair elections in Israel in October? What are we going to do?’
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- 36:47
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- 17 days ago
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- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be even more unpopular than the current polling demonstrates, Haaretz columnist Joshua Leifer said on this week’s edition of the Haaretz Election Podcast.
“I have begun to think the polling is not telling the whole story,” he said, in a discussion on how voters who believe Netanyahu is causing irreversible damage to Israeli democracy and want him removed are currently ping-ponging between “optimism and apocalyptic thinking.”
The “apocalyptic thinking,” Leifer said, involves speculation as to whether Netanyahu, anticipating defeat, somehow uses the precarious security situation to prevent free and fair elections on the scheduled date.
"After everything we've experienced over the last four years, can we rule out that apocalyptic scenario? We can't rule it out, sadly," he said.
Haaretz correspondent Judy Maltz, who joined Leifer and host Allison Kaplan Sommer on the weekly podcast pane...
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- The Mossad Plan To Collapse The Iranian Regime
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- 2:34
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- 18 days ago
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- A Haaretz investigation reveals how Mossad agents brought former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on board, the shock within Netanyahu's cabinet and the recruitment of collaborators inside Iran - Michael Hauser Tov
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- Rep. Ro Khanna: "To See the Cruelty of Humanity, Go to the West Bank"
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- 1:13
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- 22 days ago
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- 🎧In his first interview with an Israeli media outlet since his confrontation with armed settlers and Israeli soldiers in the southern West Bank last week, Representative Ro Khanna spoke with Haaretz Podcast about the incident, the “cruelty” he witnessed in his visit to the West Bank, and how Israel’s “disproportionate and inhumane” behavior in the Gaza war has changed his policy positions and the way that both he – and Americans at large – view Israel.
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- Rep. Ro Khanna to Haaretz: ‘I’m more disturbed by Israel’s lies’ than being detained in West Bank
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- 28:54
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- 22 days ago
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- In his first interview with an Israeli media outlet since his confrontation with armed settlers and Israeli soldiers in the southern West Bank last week, Representative Ro Khanna spoke with Haaretz Podcast host Allison Kaplan Sommer in a wide-ranging conversation about the now-famous incident, the "cruelty" he witnessed in his visit to the West Bank, and how Israel's "disproportionate and inhumane" behavior in the Gaza war has changed his policy positions and the way that both he – and Americans at large – view the Jewish state.
"Israel has lost Americans under 50 – not just Democrats but Republicans," he said. "It is one of the most foolish strategies to have antagonized an entire American generation, and that's what Bibi Netanyahu has accomplished."
In the interview, Khanna recounted how Israeli settlers mocked and antagonized his delegation, and parked their vehicle in front of his to block the road to Khirbet Zanuta, a Bedouin village in the South He...
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- A digital 'forever war' on democracy: Iran and Netanyahu both sow chaos ahead of Israeli elections
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- 36:43
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- 24 days ago
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- With Israeli elections set for October 27, Iran is increasingly pairing its military actions with aggressive online campaigns designed to sow chaos and conflict – alongside ongoing efforts to recruit Israelis as spies, Haaretz cyber and disinformation correspondent Omer Benjakob warned on the Haaretz Election Podcast, in a roundtable with podcast host Allison Kaplan Sommer and correspondent Linda Dayan.
“We’ve let the digital arena fester,” Benjakob said, in a stinging critique of the way in which Israel’s vaunted security services have dropped the ball in online foreign influence that has now been “supercharged” by AI.
One of the reasons the phenomenon has been difficult to combat is because “nine times out of 10, you can’t differentiate between a pro‑Iranian campaign and a pro‑Netanyahu campaign,” he added, noting that Israel’s prime minister and his far-right ruling coalition and the country’s enemies, he noted, have a stake in...
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- Lindsey Graham's Death Leaves Israel Without a Clear Voice in Trump's Ear
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- 1:26
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- 24 days ago
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- Lindsey Graham knew how to speak Trump's language like few others, and there is no obvious successor among Republican hawks with his charisma and access. His death leaves an open question: Who will take up the mantle as the most effective conduit for Netanyahu's messages to Trump? | Ben Samuels
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- "Israel's Opposition Must Join With Arab Parties to Beat Netanyahu"
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- 1:03
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- 27 days ago
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- 🗳️Listen to Haaretz Election Podcast and stay updated on the most important elections in Israel's history
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- 'We need allies': Reform movement head Rick Jacobs on the growing isolation of U.S. Jews
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- 38:35
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- 28 days ago
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- The far-right religious Netanyahu government is doing its best to “push away” liberal non-Orthodox American Jews from Israel, said Rabbi Rick Jacobs, leader of the U.S. Reform movement, on the Haaretz Podcast.
“We’re not going away. We’re actually leaning in,” he said. “You can’t trade in non‑Orthodox Jews for evangelical Christians. We’re stuck, you’re stuck with us, we’re stuck with you – we’re the Jewish people.”
During the era of negotiations over the 2016 historic compromise between non-Orthodox movements and the Israeli government over an egalitarian plaza at the Western Wall for mixed-gender prayer, Jacobs said he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – and the premier’s close advisers – were in regular contact.
Today, he said, “it has been years” since there has been a phone call – let alone a meeting – between the leader of the largest American Jewish membership organization and the Israeli le...
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- "Behind Every Story in This Book Is A Real Gazan Who Struggled to Stay Alive"
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- 1:12
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- 29 days ago
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- Qusai Tariq Abu Tebah, a 24-year-old student from Khan Yunis, documented his family's survival through 12 displacements, the loss of two siblings and the destruction of his home. He tells Haaretz: 'I wanted the book to be the witness that does not die' | Nagham Zbeedat
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Editing: Tal Elkayam
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- "Tactic to Cause Fear": Why did Israel Arrest this Arab Lawmaker?
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- 2:08
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- 1 month ago
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- Last month, police arrested Arab-Israeli lawmaker Mohammad Barakeh for inciting terrorism at a 2022 political rally. But why did it take Israeli police four years to make the arrest? | Linda Dayan explains
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- 'Israel’s opposition must join with Arab parties to beat Netanyahu. It's the right thing to do'
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- 31:38
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- 1 month ago
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- Unless something dramatic changes, the upcoming Israeli election will either end in a deadlock or a bold move to “get rid of the foolish self‑imposed arbitrary constraint of not forming coalitions with Arab parties,” political strategist and Haaretz columnist Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin said on the Haaretz Podcast.
With neither the pro-Netanyahu bloc nor the opposition parties coming close to the 61 Knesset seats they would need to take power, Scheindlin said that the Jewish Zionist Israeli parties – likely in the opposition – will be pushed to do what she believes is the right thing.
"Of course, there should be Arab parties in a governing coalition. They are 20 percent of the population. There should be no ban on parties that represent citizens of this country," Scheindlin said.
In the roundtable discussion with Haaretz correspondent Linda Dayan and host Allison Kaplan Sommer, Scheindlin discussed the new iterations of veteran parties on the ...
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- Palestinian reports: Israeli settlers set fire to café at university entrance south of Nabulus
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- 0:36
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- 1 month ago
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- Israeli settlers set fire to a café at the entrance to Al-Zaytouna University in the village of Luban al-Sharqiya, south of Nablus, in the West Bank, according to Palestinian media reports.
The head of the village’s council and owner of the restaurant, Yaqub Owais, told the Palestinian state news agency WAFA that settlers broke into the restaurant, smashed its doors and stole money before setting fire to the building, while the IDF did not intervene | Jack Khoury
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- Ahead of a Pivotal Election, What Concerns Voters In Israel’s Largest Mixed City?
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- 5:29
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- 1 month ago
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- Haaretz's Judy Maltz visits Haifa, Israel's largest mixed Jewish-Arab city, where coexistence has been put under severe strain in recent years. How could this affect the inclination of Arab citizens to vote in the upcoming election? And could a new wave of Russian and Ukrainian immigrants affect the final outcome?
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- Brad Lander on Haaretz Podcast
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- 1:39
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- 1 month ago
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- The following video is a part of Haaretz news coverage. For the newspaper website: https://www.haaretz.com/
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- ‘I promise I haven’t joined the Israel haters’: Brad Lander sits down with Haaretz
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- 34:28
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- 1 month ago
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- Brad Lander said on the Haaretz Podcast that his resounding victory in the race for the Democratic nomination for Congress in a New York City district reflected a desire for a "reset in the U.S. relationship with Israel in the Democratic Party voting base – including in one of the most Jewish districts in the country."
Lander won by more than 30 points in New York's 10th District, covering downtown Manhattan and western Brooklyn. His win over AIPAC-endorsed incumbent Dan Goldman was part of the primaries sweep by candidates backed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Like the other Mamdani-backed candidates, Lander campaigned on a platform opposing additional U.S. military aid to Israel and condemning AIPAC as being "dangerous." Lander said on the podcast that, once he is in Congress, he will support "steps I think will help shift away from what I see as a catastrophic 'hug Bibi' policy, which both Joe Biden and Donald Trump essentially adopted."
A...
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- Haaretz Election Podcast Kickoff: How far will Netanyahu go to stay in power?
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- 33:56
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- 1 month ago
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- In the inaugural episode of Haaretz’s new Election Podcast, host Allison Kaplan Sommer welcomes the first weekly panel of Haaretz analysts who will be examining and explaining developments in the intensifying countdown to the fateful elections this fall.
This week, senior analyst Esther Solomon and Palestinian affairs correspondent Nagham Zbeedat assess the state of a race in which neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his opposition currently have a path to victory according to the polls.
At the moment, “Netanyahu is more or less maxed out on however many people will still be loyal to him,” Solomon said. “He cannot crack the numbers to get anywhere near a majority to form a coalition.”
She discussed the ways in which Netanyahu visibly battled for political survival in a hastily called press conference Saturday night – from his reframing of the ongoing bloodshed in Lebanon to an invitation to his opponents to join him in ...
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- Haaretz Election Podcast Kickoff: How far will Netanyahu go to stay in power?
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- 34:24
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- 1 month ago
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- In the inaugural episode of Haaretz’s new Election Podcast, host Allison Kaplan Sommer welcomes the first weekly panel of Haaretz analysts who will be examining and explaining developments in the intensifying countdown to the fateful elections this fall.
This week, senior analyst Esther Solomon and Palestinian affairs correspondent Nagham Zbeedat assess the state of a race in which neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his opposition currently have a path to victory according to the polls.
At the moment, “Netanyahu is more or less maxed out on however many people will still be loyal to him,” Solomon said. “He cannot crack the numbers to get anywhere near a majority to form a coalition.”
She discussed the ways in which Netanyahu visibly battled for political survival in a hastily called press conference Saturday night – from his reframing of the ongoing bloodshed in Lebanon to an invitation to his o...
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- 'December 14 was our October 7': How the Bondi massacre destroyed the Australian safe haven for Jews
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- 30:38
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- 1 month ago
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- For the Australian Jewish community, the date of December 14 carries as much gut-wrenching trauma as October 7 and September 11 does for Israelis and Americans, Daniel Hochberg, co-chair of the Union for Progressive Judaism's board, told the Haaretz Podcast.
On the six-month anniversary of the terrorist shooting attack on 1,000 Jews celebrating Hanukkah on Bondi Beach that killed 15 members of the tight-knit community, Hochberg and Haaretz editor Noa Levin reviewed the aftermath of the second most deadly attack in Australian history and its ongoing effect on the country’s politics and daily life for Australian Jews.
“We don't feel safe as we did before,” Hochberg said, describing an increased “closing of spaces” to Jews who once felt part of progressive circles. “It has affected our sense of self-worth, our belief in our contribution to Australia is in question, and we are struggling with that. Our walls are being built higher and...
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- 'December 14 was our October 7': How the Bondi massacre destroyed the Australian safe haven for Jews
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- 30:11
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- 1 month ago
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- For the Australian Jewish community, the date of December 14 carries as much gut-wrenching trauma as October 7 and September 11 does for Israelis and Americans, Daniel Hochberg, an Australian Jewish leader, told the Haaretz Podcast.
On the six-month anniversary of the terrorist shooting attack on 1,000 Jews celebrating Hanukkah on Bondi Beach that killed 15 members of the tight-knit community, Hochberg and Haaretz editor Noa Levin reviewed the aftermath of the second most deadly attack in Australian history and its ongoing effect on the country’s politics and daily life for Australian Jews.
The event “had a profound impact,” Hochberg said, adding to the overall sense of insecurity Australian Jewry has felt since the events of October 7 and the political backlash linking local Jews to anger over Israel’s actions, in a country where, until now, Jewish life thrived in an atmosphere of acceptance and security.
“We don't feel safe as we did...
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- Haaretz investigation: The Israeli far-right’s West Bank land grab and why it's a ticking time bomb
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- 34:27
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- 1 month ago
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- In a special investigation on a "revolution" that has taken place over the past three years, Haaretz reporters Yarden Michaeli, Matan Golan and Yaniv Kubovich detailed the push to restore and drastically expand Israeli presence in the northern West Bank that was part of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza disengagement plan in 2005.
On the Haaretz Podcast, Michaeli discusses how the settler movement and far-right politicians have spent the 20 years since the disengagement took place planning how to execute their "return" to four West Bank settlements located in the largest contiguous area of Palestinian population in the area.
With the ascent of the most far-right government in history in 2022, members of the movement have used their power and influence in what is essentially "the settlers' government" to "return big time," Michaeli said.
In the newly published Haaretz investigation, "Undoing History," Michaeli and hi...
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- Haaretz investigation: Israel’s far-right makes a massive land grab in the West Bank
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- 34:06
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- 1 month ago
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- In a special investigation on a "revolution" that has taken place over the past three years, Haaretz reporters Yarden Michaeli, Matan Golan and Yaniv Kubovich detailed the push to restore and drastically expand Israeli presence in the northern West Bank that was part of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza disengagement plan in 2005.
On the Haaretz Podcast, Michaeli discusses how the settler movement and far-right politicians have spent the 20 years since the disengagement took place planning how to execute their "return" to four West Bank settlements located in the largest contiguous area of Palestinian population in the area.
With the ascent of the most far-right government in history in 2022, members of the movement have used their power and influence in what is essentially "the settlers' government" to "return big time," Michaeli said.
In the newly published Haaretz investigation, "Undoing History," Michaeli and his team reveal how 18 new...
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- Inside Israel’s other war: fighting the quiet dismantling of democracy
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- 38:36
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- As Israelis focused on the life-and-death issues around conflicts with Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas, the Netanyahu government has slowly but steadily progressed in its campaign to eliminate the gatekeepers of liberal democracy in order to consolidate the power of elected politicians, constitutional law expert Prof. Adam Shinar told the Haaretz Podcast.
The steps it has taken were “not exactly the package” of radical reforms it proposed in 2023 that brought hundreds of thousands of Israelis into the streets, Shinar said, but they are firmly marching Israel in the direction of a weakened judiciary, civil service and media, by putting more power in the hands of the ruling parties.
Initially, after October 7, the push for a judicial coup ground to a halt. But as the war continued, explained Shinar, a professor at Reichman University, changes were still made – if not directly through legislation, then by the appointment of Netanyahu loyalists...
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- Inside Israel’s other war: fighting the quiet dismantling of democracy
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- 38:14
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- As Israelis focused on the life-and-death issues around conflicts with Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas, the Netanyahu government has slowly but steadily progressed in its campaign to eliminate the gatekeepers of liberal democracy in order to consolidate the power of elected politicians, constitutional law expert Prof. Adam Shinar told the Haaretz Podcast.
The steps it has taken were “not exactly the package” of radical reforms it proposed in 2023 that brought hundreds of thousands of Israelis into the streets, Shinar said, but they are firmly marching Israel in the direction of a weakened judiciary, civil service and media, by putting more power in the hands of the ruling parties.
Initially, after October 7, the push for a judicial coup ground to a halt. But as the war continued, explained Shinar, a professor at Reichman University, changes were still made – if not directly through legislation, then by the appointment of Netanyahu loyalists in key position...
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- Trump made a deal with Iran. What will Netanyahu do?
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- 20:24
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- 2 months ago
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- Israel is in a strategically weakened position – and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will take a hard political hit if reports on the details of U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding are accurate, Haaretz columnist Joshua Leifer said on the Haaretz Podcast.
Netanyahu had been “riding high,” planning to face Israel’s upcoming elections in the fall having compensated for his failures that led to October 7 by boldly “reconfiguring the map of the Middle East, and disassembling Iran's proxy network of Hezbollah and Hamas, and taking on the Iranian regime itself,” Leifer said.
The Israeli leader thought “his legacy [would] be rehabilitated by those wars. Fast forward to where we are now, and that's not the case, and he’s having to confront that,” Leifer added. “Strategically, Israel's in a terrible place, where the Iranian regime is stronger than it was, and it is now able to enforce a new kind of equation where Israeli free...
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- Trump made a deal with Iran. What will Netanyahu do?
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- 19:48
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Israel is in a strategically weakened position – and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will take a hard political hit if reports on the details of U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding are accurate, Haaretz columnist Joshua Leifer said on the Haaretz Podcast.
Netanyahu had been “riding high,” planning to face Israel’s upcoming elections in the fall having compensated for his failures that led to October 7 by boldly “reconfiguring the map of the Middle East, and disassembling Iran's proxy network of Hezbollah and Hamas, and taking on the Iranian regime itself,” Leifer said.
The Israeli leader thought “his legacy [would] be rehabilitated by those wars. Fast forward to where we are now, and that's not the case, and he’s having to confront that,” Leifer added. “Strategically, Israel's in a terrible place, where the Iranian regime is stronger than it was, and it is now able to enforce a new kind of equation where Israeli freedom of movement ...
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- NY officials decry far-right MKs presence at Israel Day parade
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- 1:53
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- An “act of defiance by the Israeli Knesset and by the Israeli government” - far right MK Betzalel Smotrich appearance at the Israel Day Parade in NY swayed public officials stance towards the event, says Etan Nechin, Haaretz NY correspondent.
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The following video is a part of Haaretz news coverage. For the newspaper website: https://www.haaretz.com/
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- Netanyahu's closest aide indicted
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- 2:17
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Netanyahu's closest aide, Yonatan Urich, was indicted on Thursday for severe espionage charges. According to the allegations, Urich leaked documents in attempt
to sway public opinion against a hostage deal.
As he faces a ban from the Prime Minister's office, one question looms over the case: Why did it take so long for him to be indicted?
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Video: Shira Shechter
The following video is a part of Haaretz news coverage. For the newspaper website: https://www.haaretz.com/
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- In Mamdani's NY, Israel's far right used Israel parade to flex their muscles
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- 28:28
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- When Mayor Zohran Mamdani refused to march in New York City’s Israel Day parade - the first mayor of the city to do so in over 60 years – “did not surprise” Rabbi Josh Weinberg, who participated in the parade. But the liberal Zionist Reform rabbi was surprised to discover that he was marching alongside far-right ministers like Bezalel Smotrich and members of the Kahanist Otzma Yehudit party.
Had he known, said Weinberg, Vice President of the URJ for Israel and Reform Zionism, speaking on the Haaretz Podcast, he would’ve held a sign making it clear that “Smotrich’s Zionism does not reflect our ideology at all, and is in fact antithetical to who we are as Jews and Zionists, and even as Americans. His brand of racism, discrimination, xenophobia – everything that he stands for – we want to totally reject while still maintaining our love and support for Israel."
Weinberg added that a statement by Smotrich that the New York ev...
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- In Mamdani's NY, Israel's far right used Israel day parade to flex their muscles
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- 26:35
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- When Mayor Zohran Mamdani refused to march in New York City’s Israel Day parade - the first mayor of the city to do so in over 60 years – “did not surprise” Rabbi Josh Weinberg, who participated in the parade. But the liberal Zionist Reform rabbi was surprised to discover that he was marching alongside far-right ministers like Bezalel Smotrich and members of the Kahanist Otzma Yehudit party.
Had he known, said Weinberg, Vice President of the URJ for Israel and Reform Zionism, speaking on the Haaretz Podcast, he would’ve held a sign making it clear that “Smotrich’s Zionism does not reflect our ideology at all, and is in fact antithetical to who we are as Jews and Zionists, and even as Americans. His brand of racism, discrimination, xenophobia – everything that he stands for – we want to totally reject while still maintaining our love and support for Israel."
Weinberg added that a statement by Smotrich that the New York event resembled th...
- Title
- Iran and Israel exchange fire, and 'Trump is fed up': A war update from Amos Harel and Sima Shine
- Runtime
- 35:12
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- U.S. President Donald Trump has tired of the Israel-Iran conflict, but a solution remains elusive as missile fire renewed Sunday following an Israeli attack on Beirut that provoked the Iranian regime.
“I think he's had enough of us,” said Haaretz senior defense analyst Amos Harel, speaking on the Haaretz Podcast. “He's fed up with this region. This is taking a lot longer than he thought, and it was less successful than he assumed. He’s paying a huge price at home domestically because of the economic effects, and he doesn't seem that tough anymore.”
Joining Harel on the podcast is former Mossad official Sima Shine, an Iran expert at Tel Aviv’s Institute for National Security Studies, who said that Iran clearly has the advantage in negotiations with the United States towards a long-term cease-fire.
While she said she doesn’t believe that Tehran wants to prolong the war, she said, they will only end the fighting “on their terms.” <...
- Title
- Iran and Israel exchange fire, and 'Trump is fed up'
- Runtime
- 2:31
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Listen to Haaretz Podcast with host Allison Kaplan Sommer and guests Sima Shine and Haaretz senior defense analyst Amos Harel.
The following video is a part of Haaretz news coverage. For the newspaper website: https://www.haaretz.com/
- Title
- Iran and Israel exchange fire, and 'Trump is fed up': A war update from Amos Harel and Sima Shine
- Runtime
- 35:48
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- U.S. President Donald Trump has tired of the Israel-Iran conflict, but a solution remains elusive as missile fire renewed Sunday following an Israeli attack on Beirut that provoked the Iranian regime.
“I think he's had enough of us,” said Haaretz senior defense analyst Amos Harel, speaking on the Haaretz Podcast. “He's fed up with this region. This is taking a lot longer than he thought, and it was less successful than he assumed. He’s paying a huge price at home domestically because of the economic effects, and he doesn't seem that tough anymore.”
Joining Harel on the podcast is former Mossad official Sima Shine, an Iran expert at Tel Aviv’s Institute for National Security Studies, who said that Iran clearly has the advantage in negotiations with the United States towards a long-term cease-fire.
While she said she doesn’t believe that Tehran wants to prolong the war, she said, they will only end the fightin...
- Title
- National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir urges PM to ban Arab Israeli party Balad from Knesset
- Runtime
- 0:43
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- At the scene of a terror attack in central Israel where one was killed and five others were wounded, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to outlaw Arab Israeli parties like Balad, blaming them for incitement |
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- Title
- "Nations committing genocide don'trecognize it in real time"
- Runtime
- 1:03
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Yuli Novak, Executive Directorof human rights organization B'tselem, joins thisweek's edition of the Haaretz Podcast to discuss Israel's moral crisis, the government's "propaganda machine," and the hotly debated New York Times article about sexual abuse of Palestinians. Listen to the full episode by searching "Haaretz Podcast" on your preferred podcasting platform.
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- Title
- "Nations committing genocide don’t recognize it in real time"
- Runtime
- 40:19
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- For B’Tselem executive director Yuli Novak, the firestorm around the New York Times column by Nicholas Kristof decrying sexual violence by Israelis against Palestinians in the West Bank and in Israeli prisons has had the wrong focus.
Speaking on the Haaretz Podcast, Novak said the Israeli government’s “propaganda machine” and other critics focused on challenging the facts regarding the abuse described in the piece, which she says are backed up by “dozens of testimonies” collected by her organization.
“I would say it's much less a question whether these things are happening or not happening, and much more about what it means for all of us, and first and foremost for the victims.”
In its report on prisons, based on testimonies from Palestinians detained and then released from 16 detention facilities after October 7, B’Tselem documented “ongoing torture, physical and mental” abuse and the use of starvation and denial of medica...
- Title
- 'Nations committing genocide don’t recognize it in real time': Yuli Novak on Israel’s moral crisis
- Runtime
- 40:47
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- For B'Tselem executive director Yuli Novak, the firestorm around the New York Times column by Nicholas Kristof decrying sexual violence by Israelis against Palestinians in the West Bank and in Israeli prisons has had the wrong focus.
Speaking on the Haaretz Podcast, Novak said the Israeli government’s "propaganda machine" and other critics focused on challenging the facts regarding the abuse described in the piece, which she says are backed up by "dozens of testimonies" collected by her organization.
"I would say it's much less a question whether these things [sexual abuse of Palestinians] are happening or not happening, and much more about what it means for all of us, and first and foremost for the victims."
In its report on prisons, based on testimonies from Palestinians detained and then released from 16 detention facilities after October 7, B’Tselem documented "ongoing torture, physical and mental" abuse and the...
- Title
- ‘Anger at Israel in the Gulf’: Gregg Carlstrom the cease-fire with Iran that feels like war
- Runtime
- 26:17
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Haaretz Podcast: Episode 509
June 2, 2026
The Gulf countries are spending “enormous amounts of money to try to mask the economic consequences of the Iran war from their population,” Gregg Carlstrom, The Economist’s Middle East correspondent, said on the Haaretz Podcast.
Carlstrom, speaking from Dubai, explained that with the Strait of Hormuz blocked by Iran, Gulf states are flying in consumer goods, food and medicine normally imported by ship “at a huge expense” so their citizens don’t experience shortages or empty shelves in stores.
However, he warned, by the end of the summer, if the security situation remains precarious and the Strait remains blocked – and especially if active warfare with Iran is renewed – the economic toll will be impossible to avoid, and these countries will worry about their many expat residents packing up and leaving.
In a conversation with Haaretz Podcast host Allison Kaplan Sommer, ...
- Title
- Why Gulf leaders are unlikely to join the Abraham Accords
- Runtime
- 1:47
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- The Gulf countries are spending “enormous amounts of money to try to mask the economic consequences of the Iran war from their population,” Gregg Carlstrom, The Economist’s Middle East correspondent, said on the Haaretz Podcast.
Gulf leaders are "harboring “anger at Israel” for what they see as its “major role in pushing America into this war.” As a result, he said, he is skeptical of an expansion of the Abraham Accords, as promised by Trump, in the near future.
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The following video is a part of Haaretz news coverage. For the newspaper website: https://www.haaretz.com/
- Title
- ‘There’s a lot of anger at Israel in the Gulf’: Gregg Carlstrom on Lebanon, Gaza and the cease-fi...
- Runtime
- 27:11
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- The Gulf countries are spending “enormous amounts of money to try to mask the economic consequences of the Iran war from their population,” Gregg Carlstrom, The Economist’s Middle East correspondent, said on the Haaretz Podcast.
Carlstrom, speaking from Dubai, explained that with the Strait of Hormuz blocked by Iran, Gulf states are flying in consumer goods, food and medicine normally imported by ship “at a huge expense” so their citizens don’t experience shortages or empty shelves in stores.
However, he warned, by the end of the summer, if the security situation remains precarious and the Strait remains blocked – and especially if active warfare with Iran is renewed – the economic toll will be impossible to avoid, and these countries will worry about their many expat residents packing up and leaving.
In a conversation with Haaretz Podcast host Allison Kaplan Sommer, Carlstrom described a “roller coast...
