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Why the film world quietly stopped showing Israeli movies
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- Why the film world quietly stopped showing Israeli movies
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- 21:35
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- This week on The Jerusalem Playlist, Ezra Taylor and Hannah Brown talk about three stories in Israeli and Jewish culture.
Avi Nesher's October 7 drama Our Loves just landed a slot at the Toronto Film Festival. Last year, Toronto disinvited an Israeli October 7 documentary. This year they gave one of the biggest platforms to Nesher's film about seven strangers who thought October 6 was the worst day of their lives. Fox Entertainment and Access Entertainment signed on as co-producers.
Then, they discussed the upcoming film Just an Illusion. The directors of The Intouchables made their most personal film. A Mizrachi Jewish boy growing up in 1985 Paris, getting ready for his bar mitzvah while his parents fight and his dad loses his job. Two million tickets were sold in France, and both directors lost their fathers during filming.
And Hannah talks about something close to home. Feelings In Between is a new exhibition at the Jerusalem Theatre featuring ...
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- Likud holds its primaries to shape Netanyahu's team
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- 1:13
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party is holding its primaries, one of the only Israeli parties to do so. Ministers describe an unusually competitive race with strong turnout ahead of the October 27 vote. They say a stronger team could win Likud more seats in the next election.
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- 'Just don't mention you're Israeli' — he refused | DJ Raphi
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- 1:28
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- DJ Raphi was told to hide that he's Israeli. He refused. When his agent warned that keeping Shabbat would cost him the industry's biggest earning nights, he didn't budge, and then learned the only other Shomer Shabbat artist WME had ever signed was Matisyahu.
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- Sponder: 'They cancelled my sold-out show'
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- 0:49
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Israeli comedian Yohay Sponder had a sold-out show cancelled due to antisemitism and anti-Zionism. Here's how it happened.
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- Transnistria, the country that doesn't exist
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- 1:02:36
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- We draw back the curtain on the mysterious land locals call Pridnestrovie – better known to the world as The Transnistrian Region or Transnistria.Join Mark, David and special guest JC as they explore this beautiful and little-understood corner of southeastern Moldova.
This time on the podcast:
• Crossing three borders in 100 metres
• Learning how not to take a shower
• Hotel beds: hard, soft, and everything in between
• A mystical Hasidic burial site
• Exploring Bender Fortress – ghosts included
• Vodka at 11 a.m.
• Lunch in a Soviet-era canteen
• "I do love a nice bit of gefilte fish"
• Going native: honey, pickles and herbal remedies
• Fun with Flags in Tiraspol
• Kosher, yes kosher brandy from KvintA fascinating journey into one of Europe's most intriguing and least-visited destinations.
Mark and David were assisted by Visit Pridnestrovie (https://pridnestrovie-tou...
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- How does an Israeli kids' star sell out Denver's Red Rocks? | DJ Raphi
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- 42:40
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- A talent agency advised DJ Raphi to hide that he's Israeli. He refused, then told WME he wouldn't perform a single Friday night or Saturday. They signed him anyway.
Raphael Nathan, the Israeli entertainer known to more than a billion YouTube viewers as DJ Raphi, sits down with Chani Kaplan for the Jerusalem Report podcast. He describes the Zoom call where a WME agent warned him that weekends are where kids' shows make their money, and his answer: "You've never seen a harder working Jew between Sunday and Thursday." The agent's reply revealed that only one shomer Shabbat artist had signed with the agency before him. Raphi also tells the story of a six-year-old boy who danced to his cleaning song between surgeries, and of a mother at Red Rocks who grabbed both his hands and told him her daughter had watched his videos through a fourth round of chemotherapy. "It's not entertainment. It's not dancing," she told him. "You're changing people's lives."
What makes thi...
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- Gaza students plead with Putin to reach Russia
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- 0:30
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Palestinian students in Gaza have appealed directly to President Vladimir Putin and Russia's foreign ministry for help traveling to Russia, where they hold university admission offers. With borders closed, they say they cannot leave as the academic year approaches. The students describe their situation as urgent.
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- Syrian army soldiers chant death threats against Jews
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- 0:30
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Footage published Sunday shows Syrian Arab Army soldiers chanting "I will make your blood flow in rivers" outside the Damascus Citadel on Saturday. The protest followed Israel's rejection of the Board of Peace's 15-point Gaza plan.
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- Smotrich: '1.8 million Nazis will not live on our borders'
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- 0:44
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Smotrich says Netanyahu should have told Trump early on that "after October 7, 1.8 million Nazis will not live on our borders," and credits the president with putting "voluntary migration" and the "Gaza Riviera" idea on the table.
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- Smotrich: I pulled the handbrake on Netanyahu's Gaza plan
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- 20:02
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Israel's finance minister says he grabbed the wheel from his own prime minister. In a wide-ranging Jerusalem Post interview, Bezalel Smotrich lays out his red lines on Gaza, the Haredi draft, and the coming election.
Speaking with Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Zvika Klein and Political correspondent Keshet Neev, Smotrich argues he is the coalition's "responsible adult," the one Netanyahu partner who never resigned, and claims he pulled a "very serious handbrake" to stop a 15-point plan he says would have left Hamas ruling Gaza through a puppet. He defends voting against the hostage deal that freed convicted terrorists, reveals he stayed in government partly because he knew a strike on Iran was coming, a secret he says he kept even from his wife, and insists that "when the future existence of the Jewish people rests on my shoulders, I have no other consideration."
The conversation ranges across his vision of encouraged emigration from Gaza, the fight over ultr...
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- Cancelled over one email: Yohay Sponder on comedy after Oct 7
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- 28:52
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Israeli comedian Yohay Sponder had a sold-out Amsterdam show cancelled because one person sent the venue a threatening email. His answer: "You got an email and you're scared?"
Sponder has spent more than 20 years doing stand-up, but since October 7 his English-language act has become something else entirely, part comedy, part argument.
In this interview with Ruth Marks Eglash, the Report editor-in-chief, he describes promoters who suddenly have no dates available six months out, protests in Europe, and a rescheduled Amsterdam show that sold a thousand tickets in about a minute once the story broke.
What makes this conversation unusual is how personal it gets. Sponder lost a cousin at a kibbutz on October 7, buried his father four months later, and became a father himself, the trilogy of losses and beginnings behind his new show "Genesis," which followed his sold-out "Self Loving Jew" world tour.
Chapters:
00:00 - The email th...
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- Seven Persian Jewish families make aliyah together
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- 1:27
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Seven families from the Persian Jewish community of Great Neck, New York - including some 26 children - arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport last week to begin new lives in Israel. The families made aliyah with Nefesh B'Nefesh and settled in Ra'anana. One father said the community "decided it's time to come home."
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- Moti Leitner: 'Israel is doing Satmar's work for it'
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- 16:53
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- An ultra-Orthodox who went from below the poverty line to high-tech, then enlisted after October 7, Moti Leitner now wants to break Haredi politics open.
Deputy Mayor of Beit Shemesh Moti Leitner sits down with The Jerusalem Post's political correspondent, Keshet Neev, to explain why he founded HaTzibbur HaCharedi ("The Haredi Public"), a new party built on one claim: hundreds of thousands of working Haredim, immigrants, and ba'alei teshuva have no real representation in the Knesset.
He argues the decades-long draft standoff was sustained by a mutual fiction — that the IDF never genuinely wanted Haredi recruits, and the establishment preferred the status quo — until October 7 "blew up in all our faces." His thesis, in his own words: "A strong, thriving and prosperous Haredi society does not contradict the state's success."
Leitner makes the case for enlistment through incentives rather than sanctions, defends a protected "Torah-study corps" ...
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- Smotrich: 'The haredim don't refuse to serve in the IDF because they're lazy'
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- 31:10
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich defends the ultra-Orthodox draft deal splitting his own base, even as two of his sons served in combat and one was seriously wounded.
In this Jerusalem Post interview, Smotrich answers the question his own voters keep asking: why side with the haredim on military service when the religious-Zionist public pays the price in blood? His answer is personal. He speaks about two sons in combat units , one still in rehabilitation, and a cousin, IDF Major (res.) Amishar Ben David, killed early in the war. Yet he insists coercion is the wrong tool: "I am convinced that it will not succeed through force." His bet is on a five-year, consent-based path to Haredi enlistment, a wager his political future may ride on.
The conversation ranges well beyond the draft. Smotrich lays out an ambitious aliyah push, a million immigrants over a decade, five-year tax breaks for newcomers, and 1,600 North American doctors arriving this summer, arguing th...
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- Iran-born Israel advocate faces deportation despite family ties
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Ramin Parsa converted from Islam to Christianity as a teenager and fled Iran, later becoming a vocal supporter of Israel. The Interior Ministry has rejected his residency twice, even after a court overturned the first denial as disproportionate, citing his Jewish wife and son. Restrictions now bar him from working or traveling.
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- Settlers clash with IDF near West Bank outpost
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- 0:22
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Dozens of settlers clashed with Israeli forces near Kusra in the northern West Bank on Wednesday after the military dismantled an outpost in a closed military zone. Extremists blocked roads, tore down fences, and besieged the area. Border Police removed a tent housing civilians, and no arrests have been made.
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- Europe criticizes Israel in public, buys its tech in private
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- 42:33
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- European governments condemn Israel publicly, then send purchase orders to Israeli defense tech firms. IL Ventures' Yoni Heilbronn explains why.
In this episode of the Defense and Tech Podcast, host Anna Ahronheim sits down with Yoni Heilbronn, co-founder and managing partner of IL Ventures, the Tel Aviv fund backing disruptive technology for legacy industries; logistics, smart manufacturing, robotics and supply chain. Heilbronn argues the post-WWII order is finished: "Globalization as we knew it is pretty much dead," he says, and what replaced it is real-politik at the extreme, where "it's every man for himself." That shift, he explains, is precisely why Israeli technology commands a premium, and why the gap between public statements and private procurement has never been wider.
Heilbronn is candid about the limits of the defense tech gold rush, warning that long sales cycles and a thin pool of acquirers may not match venture capital timelines even as Germany...
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- Iran releases rare video of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei
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- 0:23
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Iran's semi-official Mehr News Agency released undated footage Sunday, under 15 seconds, showing Khamenei speaking with a group of men. No location was given. Khamenei has not appeared publicly since succeeding his father Ali Khamenei, killed in the February 28 US-Israeli strike. State media reported a late July meeting with President Pezeshkian.
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- '55% of new olim don't feel welcome in Israel' | Alex Rif, Yashar
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- 44:22
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Alex Rif spent her childhood trying to erase her Russian accent. Now she's running for Knesset on Gadi Eisenkot's list to make sure no immigrant has to.
Rif is a poet, founder of the One Million Lobby, and architect of Yashar's immigration absorption platform, brings numbers that rarely make headlines: of olim who arrived in 2025, only 18% studied in ulpan and 17% found work in their field.
"55% feel that they're not welcomed in Israel," she says. She lays out the plan for the 30,000 Holocaust survivors living in poverty, the scams targeting elderly Russian speakers, and a bureaucracy that sends new arrivals to ten offices for one answer.
The conversation turns personal on what Israeli politics avoids: why she has three children with a partner she can't legally call her husband, why families of October 7 victims discovered their children would be buried in separate plots, and why she defends the Law of Return's grandchild clause.
Sh...
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- Fight erupts at Manila airport over antisemitic insults
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- 0:31
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- An Israeli and an American fought at a Manila airport on Saturday after the American allegedly called the Israeli a "baby killer" and said it was "too bad Hitler didn't finish the job," per footage published by activist Hen Mazzig. Bystanders and airport staff broke it up. The clash follows an August 3 antisemitic attack on an IDF reservist in Siargao.
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- ‘The IDF was fighting Hamas on the right hand and feeding them with the left’
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- 0:35
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Israel's failure to end the Gaza war sooner was a military failure, not just a political one, according to IDF Brig.-Gen. (res.) Erez Winner.
Winner spent roughly a year as head of operational planning for the IDF's Southern Command, a role covering operations from Protective Edge in 2014 onward. In this clip, he argues that winning required controlling the resource that actually matters in Gaza, which is the humanitarian aid, and that the IDF instead spent all of 2024 fighting Hamas with, in his words, the wrong hand.
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- Red-painted hands at Religious Zionist party headquarters
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- 0:30
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- The Religious Zionist Party says Standing Together activists tried to force their way into its Shoham offices Wednesday, banging on doors and chanting "Arabs want to live." Standing Together says the doors were unlocked and members could leave freely. Police said the protesters had dispersed before officers arrived and are reviewing the incident.
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- Erdan says government abandoned Israel's global image battle
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- New right-wing party leader and former UN ambassador Gilad Erdan told the Post that Israel needs an "army of hasbara" led by a public diplomacy "chief of staff." He said his UN public diplomacy budget began at $10,000 for activities in New York, and warned that Israel is losing support among American Democrats and younger Republicans.
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- Herzl's grandparents laid to rest on Mount Herzl
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- 0:53
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- The remains of Shimon Leib and Rivka Herzl were reinterred beside their grandson on Wednesday, 77 Hebrew-calendar years after Theodor Herzl's own reburial. President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Serbian dignitaries attended the state ceremony. The World Zionist Organization led the years-long effort to bring the couple from Zemun, Serbia.
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- Gilad Erdan launches new right-wing party in Israel
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Former Israeli ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan has launched a party built on right-wing politics, universal IDF conscription and unity. Erdan says he wants a broad government of right-wing parties and won't rule out Bennett or Eisenkot, but calls sitting with Yair Golan a red line. He says security experts will join within days.
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- Why Iranians are urging more strikes on their own regime
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- 37:48
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Iran's regime slaughtered its own people in January and the world moved on. British-Iranian journalist Jonathan Harounoff speaks on the people nobody is negotiating for.
More than a month and a half after the US–Iran memorandum of understanding was signed, talks remain frozen in what Harounoff calls a Groundhog Day cycle of revived and denied negotiations. The Iranian people were never on the agenda in the first place. Speaking to Deep Dive host Jacob Laznik, he describes a "tale of two Irans": A regime with a bottomless reserve for missiles and cutting-edge military technology, and a population facing blackouts, water shortages and inflation it cannot survive. His sharpest point cuts against Western assumptions entirely: the Islamic Republic's single greatest strategic asset is that it isn't a democracy. It doesn't answer to polls, petrol prices or public fury, so its strategy is not to defeat Washington and Jerusalem militarily but to out-suffer them in a war of attrit...
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- Reservists who fought the war now want to lead
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- 1:50
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- The Zionist Home-The Reservists launched its campaign on a single claim: the people who carried the war should run the country.
Yoaz Hendel said the government failed in recruiting all Israelis, and reservists paid the price.
Roy Frank, who served 450 days, said Israel got into this through politics and will get out through politics.
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- Haredi, Zionist, Palestinian: three Israelis, one conversation
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- 51:07
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- A Haredi writer, a religious Zionist philosopher and a Palestinian Israeli from Nazareth sit in one room and talk about the conflict, without pretending to agree.
They are part of TEMA, a cross-sector Israeli leadership network that deliberately has no solution to sell. Its method is unusual: participants first meet in homogeneous groups, Haredi with Haredi, Palestinian Israeli with Palestinian Israeli, and only later cross over.
Kholoud Abu Ahmad, who grew up in Nazareth, describes how engaging with politics became an obligation rather than a choice from childhood.
Prof. Benjamin Ish-Shalom draws a hard distinction between diplomatic agreements and human contact, pointing to more than fifty years of peace with Egypt that produced almost no ordinary traffic between the two societies.
Tzippy Diskind describes a Haredi upbringing in which contact with non-Jews was bounded by halakhic norms, and recalls Rav Shach's position during the...
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- Miles, memories, and microphones: The fifth anniversary special
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- 59:22
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Welcome to a very special edition of The Jerusalem Post Podcast – Travel Edition, coming to you live from Netanya in front of a wonderful audience as we celebrate five years of journeys, discoveries, and unforgettable conversations.
Over the past half-decade we’ve travelled far beyond the departure board – exploring the Jewish and Israeli story across the globe, and meeting the people who make every destination come alive.
In this anniversary episode we look back at some of our most remarkable stops: from the soaring skylines of the United Arab Emirates to the layered history of Poland, from vibrant Panama to the crossroads of Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan, and of course the endlessly surprising landscapes of Israel and Europe.
Pack your bags – this is a journey through five years of travel, culture, and connection.
Our podcast is also available on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jpost-podcast-trav...
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- Tel Aviv vice mayor challenges Mamdani to box
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- 0:25
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Guy Avner posted a video Monday inviting New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani into the ring for a charity event, with all proceeds going to a charity of Mamdani's choosing. Avner accused the mayor of anti-Israel rhetoric that fuels hatred toward Jews. He told the Jerusalem Post he picked boxing because it means facing your opponent directly.
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- Jewish and Arab teens finish first Cooking Peace camp
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- 1:24
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- About 40 teens, mostly 15 to 17, completed the first Cooking Peace camp at Ben Shemen Youth Village on Friday.
Each group had two instructors, one Jewish and one Arab, one speaking Hebrew and one Arabic.
Participants expressed their love for the camp, saying that they came away with a new understanding and appreciation for one another.
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- Israel's next threat is already inside its borders | IDF general
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- 45:31
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Israel is winning on every front, and Brig. Gen. (res.) Erez Winner says the next war is already being armed inside Israel's own borders.
In his first weeks as chairman of the Israel Defense and Security Forum (IDSF–HaBithonistim), Winner sits down with Anna Ahronheim to argue that Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas have all been militarily defeated, and that the threat Israel is least prepared for is domestic: smuggled illegal weapons, organized crime in Arab society, and an armed Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria that could turn its guns the day Mahmoud Abbas dies.
On Gaza, the former head of Southern Command operational planning is blunt about why the war dragged on: "The failure of not ending this war long ago is a military failure." Israel, he says, spent 2024 fighting Hamas with one hand and feeding it with the other.
Winner spent over a decade drawing the IDF's operational plans in the Southern Command, from Protective Edge through the c...
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- He fought a year in Gaza, now he could be Israel's youngest MK | Yonatan Shalev
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- 51:46
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- At 23, Yonatan Shalev could become the youngest lawmaker in Israel's history. He fought a year in Gaza, buried his best friend, and now wants the Knesset.
Shalev founded the reservists' movement Shoulder to Shoulder weeks after his closest friend from Maglan, Yonatan Deutsch, was murdered in a Hamas terror attack in the Jordan Valley.
He explains why he left advocacy for Naftali Bennett's Together list, and what he wants from a seat: a state commission of inquiry into October 7 in the coalition's "first hour," a NIS 1 million benefits package for those who serve, and an end to stipends for those who don't. "We're going to tilt the pyramid."
Shalev also calls Israel "a country in trauma," says the current government is "flaming" Judea and Samaria, backs declaring Qatar an enemy state, and rules out any coalition with parties that reject mandatory service.
His argument is generational: hundreds of thousands of Israelis aged 18 to 30 c...
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- Is Israel written out of the new Middle East order?
- Runtime
- 38:09
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Netanyahu got his eighth Trump meeting, but no South Portico welcome, no cameras, no one-on-one. Former Jerusalem Post editor-in-chief Yaakov Katz asks what that silence means.
Three months before Israelis vote on October 27, Yaakov Katz argues the more urgent question isn't who won the room, it's whether Israel is still in it. Turkey may get F-35s, Saudi Arabia is moving on a nuclear agreement, and the presidents of Lebanon and Iraq received the White House embrace and Oval Office cameras Netanyahu did not. "Is it possible that there's a new regional order that's being written here, that Israel just might not be one of the coauthors for?" Katz asks. On the anti-Iran coalition forming without Israel: "Israel is not being invited to sit at the table."
Host Jacob presses Katz on two reports that landed this week: unreleased documentary footage of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, in which Graham questions whether Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are suited to Midd...
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- Sderot's population grows 20% since October 7 attack
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- The southern Israeli city has grown from 35,000 residents at the start of the war to more than 42,000 today. It has built five new neighborhoods, with officials projecting 70,000 residents within a decade. A summer initiative aims to bring visitors to meet the community.
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- Haskel calls Yair Golan's remarks dangerous and anti-Zionist
- Runtime
- 0:46
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Speaking to the Post, Sharren Haskel said she had to deal with the results of Yair Golan's actions and lies, calling them anti-Zionist and dangerous. She is pushing for a six-mandate bloc that would deny Netanyahu a coalition with the ultra-Orthodox and Eisenkot one with Arab parties, saying she is in neither's pocket.
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- Herzl's grandparents to be reburied on Mount Herzl
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- 0:23
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- The remains of Shimon and Rivka Herzl will arrive from Belgrade for reinterment beside their grandson's grave in Jerusalem. The state ceremony is set for August 5, marking 77 years since Theodor Herzl's own reburial. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog will attend. World Zionist Organization Chairman Yaakov Hagoel is leading the effort.
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- Title
- 'It's an immoral law': Why Sharren Haskel quit the government
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- 35:29
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- She spent a year and a half blocking the haredi draft exemption from inside Netanyahu's coalition. The night it slipped through, Sharren Haskel resigned.
In her first extended sit-down since walking out of the Foreign Ministry, Haskel tells the Jerusalem Post what the final week of the Knesset actually looked like from inside the coalition, including her claim that the anti-exemption bloc was holding at exactly 60 votes, and that her own resignation from the Knesset would have handed the haredi parties their majority. On the law that froze arrests of draft evaders, she is blunt: "We are legislators. We cannot be above the law." Her anger, she says, isn't personal. "I'm not angry for myself. I'm angry for those who have really paid that price. And I know how much they feel betrayed."
Haskel is a rare figure in Israeli politics: hawkish on security, classically liberal on economics, and now homeless on a map that has hardened into two blocs. She explains why the...
- Title
- Why Israeli defense startups deploy faster than US rivals
- Runtime
- 1:24
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- The most-repeated claim about Israeli defense tech is wrong, says the deep tech investor Zack Fagan. Israel's real advantage is something far less glamorous.
In this clip, [Guest] takes apart the idea that Israel is uniquely populated by founders who have "deployed in the field," pointing out that a large share of US defense tech founders have combat experience too.
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- Title
- Space is already a battlefield, says Israeli venture capitalist Zach Fagan
- Runtime
- 40:46
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Quantum computing has no dominant player yet, and that, argues deep tech investor Zack Fagan, is exactly why Israel's next category-defining company may come from it.
Zack Fagan is a partner at Earth & Beyond Ventures, one of the only early-stage funds in Israel dedicated entirely to deep tech. In this conversation with Jerusalem Post defense correspondent Anna Ahronheim, he argues that the constraint on AI progress is no longer the processor: the trouble is delivering power to the chips, dissipating the heat, and moving data across the interconnect. His analogy is blunt: a GPU that can handle a thousand data points is worthless if the wire between components only moves a hundred at a time. On quantum, he is equally direct: no one has succeeded in deploying a full-stack, end-to-end quantum computer that does something genuinely useful, and unlike the SaaS era, more capital does not reliably produce better outcomes in deep tech.
Fagan also pushes back on a stor...
- Title
- Smotrich lays out his party's case to voters
- Runtime
- 0:53
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Religious Zionist Party chair Bezalel Smotrich says his party introduced tax exemptions, foreign diploma recognition and rental assistance for new immigrants, and expanded the Aliyah Ministry. He cites judicial reform, opposition to dividing the land, and an economy with a strong shekel and record-breaking high-tech sector.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-903730
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- Title
- 'Only Likud can', did they? Netanyahu's four-year record
- Runtime
- 8:09
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Netanyahu just became the first Israeli PM since 1988 to finish a full four-year term. So what did his coalition actually do with the time?
The 2022 campaign ran on "only Likud can," restore deterrence, crack down on crime, cut the cost of living, deliver free daycare for every child under three. Four years later the record splits hard.
Roughly 31,000 rockets and missiles were fired at Israel across the term, including some 5,000 on October 7 alone by IDF estimates.
Murders in Arab communities rose from 116 in 2022 to a record 252 in 2025, with firearms used in 85–90% of killings, and by late 2025 around 65% of Israelis reported little or no faith in the police. As the video puts it: "Inflation did cool, but the cost of living didn't."
There are real wins in here too, rail, light rail, ports, broadband and energy generation all improved measurably, and inflation is on track to stay inside the Bank of Israel's 1–3% target after hit...
- Title
- Massive fire hits Sderot factories, no injuries reported
- Runtime
- 0:20
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- A blaze engulfing Strauss and Tapugan factories in Sderot drew 25 fire crews and two planes on Monday morning. Authorities ruled out a feared ammonia leak, and no injuries were reported. Residents in the nearby neighborhood were told to stay indoors with windows shut. Strauss says snack production continues as usual.
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- Title
- The general who built Israel's cyber arm on what comes next
- Runtime
- 40:18
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- The pagers, the strike on Iran's leadership, the alerts that reach Israelis five minutes before the sirens, one man's fingerprints are on the system behind all of it.
Prof. Itzchak Ben-Israel initiated the IDF's first offensive cyber unit in 1992, later led Israel's National Cyber Initiative, and now warns that the entire edifice of digital secrecy is on a ten-year clock.
Speaking to Jerusalem Post senior military analyst Yonah Jeremy Bob, he explains how cyber and AI shaped the war with Iran, from identifying mobile missile launchers across a country too vast for human analysts, to the intelligence that made precision timing possible, and why quantum computing will render today's encryption worthless: "No matter what password you use, in a fraction of a second I will break it."
What follows is not only a warning. Ben-Israel lays out the two escape routes, post-quantum algorithms that are secure but slow, and quantum encryption, where a message p...
- Title
- Ohad Tal pitches Religious Zionist vision for Israel
- Runtime
- 0:51
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- MK Ohad Tal says the Religious Zionist Party will make Israel "stronger and more democratic" through winning current wars, applying sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, and completing judicial reform. The former head of World Bnei Akiva, a Jewish youth movement operating in 34 countries, says fixing the judicial system will ensure voter choices are honored at the ballot box.
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- Title
- 'Never grow up': Inside Israel's new Peter Pan musical
- Runtime
- 4:54
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Peter Pan: a flying, music-filled staging built on one deceptively simple idea: some of us are never meant to grow up.
Filmed in the final month of rehearsals, this behind-the-scenes look goes inside a production that reads Peter Pan less as a children's adventure and more as a story about the people left waiting at home.
As Ofir Weil (Mr. Smee) puts it, "the story is about parents who wait for their kids to come back home." Meshi Kleinstein (Wendy), insists: "I myself am a little girl and I'll never grow up, and it's fun for me." Between the choreography run-throughs and the songs still being pieced together, a shared conviction emerges, that "all of us need to keep our Peter Pan alive."
What sets this staging apart is the ambition behind it: the director Hanoch Rosen, who was once Peter Pan, drawing on large-scale international productions, from Las Vegas to festivals around the world, applied to Barrie's most enduring legend.
The...
- Title
- Thousands gather at Western Wall for Tisha B'Av lamentations
- Runtime
- 1:24
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Title
- Gender segregation on Israeli streets?
- Runtime
- 0:41
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Jerusalem Post political correspondent Keshet Neev breaks down the flagship laws passed in the final weeks of the Netanyahu government: weakening the attorney general, overhauling the broadcasting sector, and enacting gender segregation in higher education.
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- Title
- What does Eisenkot's lead in the polls really tell us about the shift in Israeli political mindset?
- Runtime
- 0:50
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Title
- Israel heads to elections, and no one trusts the process
- Runtime
- 32:31
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Israeli elections have barely been called and already the Shin Bet is warning of threats to their integrity, AI-generated attack ads are flooding the campaign, and Bibi's own coalition is turning on itself in public.
The Jerusalem Post political correspondent Keshet Neev joins host Jacob Laznik on The Deep Dive to unpack the most volatile opening to an Israeli election season in years. They break down President Herzog's warning about election interference, the Likud AI ad depicting Eisenkot embracing Mansour Abbas, and why Eisenkot overtaking Netanyahu in the polls could shift the entire opposition bloc's momentum.
As Keshet puts it, "the second that Likud isn't the biggest party anymore… it kind of shifts the sense" of the whole race.
They also dig into the internal Likud primary fight over Netanyahu's demand to hand-pick the top eight slots, Rabbi Dov Landau's remarks against the IDF and Netanyahu's rare public pushback, Ben-Gvir's condition ...
