Breaking: Who Won Israel's Election?
Who really won Israel’s election? is the Netanyahu era coming to an end or has he survived another day? Noam Weissman and political analyst...
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Unpacking Israeli History
Go behind the scenes of Israeli history with self-confessed history nerd Noam Weissman. Each week, he offers a fresh perspective on some of the most controversial and interesting events in t...
Episodes
20 of 205 episodesIs Israel Solving the Wrong Problems?
What makes Israel a startup nation, and what could take it to the next level? Venture capitalist and author Judah Taub joins Noam Weissman i...
8 Elections That Shocked Israel
Israel votes on October 27th, and Noam couldn’t think of a better way to count down than by ranking Israel’s eight biggest political earthqu...
Blood and Honey: The Incredible Story of Kibbutz Yad Mordechai
Named for a hero of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Kibbutz Yad Mordechai embodies the story of Jewish resistance and renewal. From its desperat...
Can Israel Have All the Land and Still Have Peace?
What do Israelis who live in the West Bank really believe, and what do outsiders misunderstand about them? Noam Weissman sits down with Rabb...
After the Massacre: Remembering October 7
Three years after October 7, Noam Weissman visits the Tkuma car graveyard, Kibbutz Be’eri, and Netiv Ha’Asara to ask how Israelis remember t...
What Would Rav Kook Think of Religious Zionism Today?
In the third and final episode of our series on religious Zionism, Noam Weissman explores how every major debate within religious Zionism, f...
The Fight for the Soul of Religious Zionism
UPDATED: In part 2 of his series on Religious Zionism, Noam traces a movement as it moves from the sidelines to the center of Israeli life,...
What Actually is Religious Zionism?
In Part 1 of our series on Religious Zionism, Noam Weissman traces how Jewish longing for Zion evolved into a religious movement that reshap...
Don’t Leave Zionism to the Extremists – with Yossi Klein Halevi
What does it mean to be a Zionist? Yossi Klein Halevi has asked, and lived that question in radically different ways. He tells Noam Weissman...
Tel Hai: Rethinking Israel's Founding Myth
Tel Hai is a small historic site in the Galilee where, in 1920, a tense standoff between Jewish farmers and Arab fighters erupted into a dea...
Special Crossover: Can Israelis And Palestinians Ever Live In Peace? With Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
Will the war ever truly come to an end? Can two populations with so much pain find common ground? Or is the hurt too deep, too vast to overc...
Good Jews Only? Confronting New York Magazine's Habibi City Story
Noam Weissman unpacks the firestorm around New York Magazine’s "Habibi City" issue and traces the deeper historical pattern behind it: the d...
Durban 2001: How Zionism Became a Dirty Word
In August 2001, Jewish delegates arrived at the UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban expecting to fight bigotry. Instead they walked...
Why Israeli Elections Never Produce a Clear Winner
How do Israeli elections actually work? Israelis don't vote directly for prime minister, no party has ever won a majority, and a party with...
Live from Camp Tel Yehudah: Teens Talk Antisemitism, Identity, and Israel
What do Jewish teens really think about Israel? Noam Weissman takes the podcast to Camp Tel Yehudah for a special live episode, exploring Is...
Israel's Eurovision story: Boos, ballads, and breaking up with Europe (Part 2)
A little Israeli boy from a poor Yemenite family grew up, transitioned, and became the most scandalous, fabulous Eurovision winner in histor...
Israel's Eurovision story: How a Middle Eastern country crashed Europe's biggest party (Part 1)
Why does Israel compete in Eurovision if it's not even in Europe? In Part 1, Noam Weissman unpacks how Israel went from Eurovision newcomer...
Live from Camp Lavi: Teens Take on Israel's Toughest Moments
It's summer. Where else do you want to be? Sleepaway camp, obviously. Unpacking Israeli History packed its bags and went to camp. Noam Weiss...
Israel Open Mic: Is the Palestinian flag Illegal in Israel?
A man is detained over a kippah bearing both the Israeli and Palestinian flags. Was it legal? Noam unpacks the surprising history of the Pal...