State of Tel Aviv, Israel Podcast

Feb 02 2025 141 ep. 32 mins 13

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State of Tel Aviv, and Beyond: the podcast that tells the story. Unfiltered. We work it hard so that you will understand what’s really going down in Israel.

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S3 E7. Release of 18 Hostages from Hamas Hell

Feb 02 2025 37 mins

We were fortunate to catch up with State of Tel Aviv regular and now a globally recognized A+ commentator and analyst on the Israel-Hamas conflict and more—Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus (Res.). He spoke to us on Saturday evening—after a very busy day doing media in Israel and abroad. The hostage release has been a spectacle unlike any other—when an Islamist terror group commands

S3 E6. Four Israeli Soldiers Held Hostage by Hamas are Free

Jan 27 2025 49 mins

Israelis watched the video on October 7, 2023 in shock. A teenage girl, bloodied and terrified, was being pulled by her long hair from the trunk of a jeep by a heavily armed Hamas terrorist. Naama Levy, a newly conscripted IDF soldier, had been brutalized, and the short clip of her went viral globally. When they first saw it even her parents did not recognize their daughter. In a d

S3 E5. Israel’s Wartime Economy: How Bad is it?

Jan 24 2025 43 mins

This interview with Karnit Flug was on January 2, shortly after the Government of Israel released all manner of economic statistics and announced some rather significant tax tweaks. Based on my anecdotal conversations with people in the professional, VC and tech sectors, there is growing concern that the new tax measures will have the most deleterious—and disproportionate—impac

S3 E4. Israel’s Bad but Critical Hostage Deal

Jan 23 2025 31 mins

Ya’akov Katz is back to discuss the wild week we’ve had here. I caught up with him on Wednesday evening, Israel time, and had intended to focus on the resignation the day before of IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi. But, of course, we spent more than half our time discussing the terrible hostage deal that we agree was absolutely necessary. And we get into how the deal might unfol

S3 E3. Hostage Deal with Hamas: Will Israel Approve or is it DOA?

Jan 16 2025 26 mins

We begin with a clip of the Hamas chief in Gaza—Khalil al-Hayya, speaking Wednesday night in Doha after Hamas signed off on the proposed hostage deal. We have included a link to the video with English subtitles in the Podcast Notes, below. What he is saying, in short, is that October 7 was a glorious beginning and that Hamas will continue the struggle until all occupied lands and

S3 E2. Will Pres.-elect Trump’s Threats Help to Free Hamas' Hostages?

Jan 08 2025 44 mins

President-elect Donald Trump threatens that if the 100 hostages held by Hamas since October 7 aren’t freed by January 20, there will be “all hell to pay!” What does that actually mean? Jonathan Conricus and I get into the political and military complexities embedded in the issue, which also enrage us. Because we both feel that the hostages should never have been seized in the

S3 E1. Antisemitism in Justin Trudeau's Canada - Part II

Jan 05 2025 64 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.stateoftelaviv.comToday we continue to deconstruct the rise and spread of antisemitism in Canada during the tenure of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. We concentrate on the environment from October 7, 2023, when things really spiraled out of control. And there is good reason for that. Institutional foundations that sup

S3 E1. Antisemitism in Justin Trudeau's Canada - Part I

Jan 03 2025 80 mins

This two-part podcast is long and intense. It has been in-the-making now since early November. Initially, I wasn’t sure about how to approach it. Because the reality is overwhelming. But the “how” happened organically, as events unfolded. When Ezra Levant—a well-known Canadian journalist/lawyer/provocateur—was arrested by Toronto police on Sunday, November 24, 2024, for a

S2 E84. An IDF Reservist Gets Candid About His Time in Gaza

Jan 01 2025 14 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.stateoftelaviv.comMichael Starr has served more than 200 days of reserve duty with the IDF since October 7, 2023. Within hours of the Hamas attack, he was summoned to join his colleagues and begin preparations for war. Michael recently wrote about his experiences in The Jerusalem Post, where he is the Diaspora Affair

S2 E83. One Man's Obsession with Theodor Herzl

Dec 29 2024 58 mins

Theodor Herzl is the father of the modern political Zionist movement, but the centrality of his vision to the founding of the state of Israel is less understood than it might be. Herzl was living an assimilated life in late 19th-century Vienna but continually came up against brick walls blocking his professional advancement. Because he was Jewish. He quickly formed the view that th