Episode 40: You still need real life spies to win wars, with Yossi Cohen
Former Mossad director Yossi Cohen joins the podcast to talk about the war with Iran (spoiler: It isn’t over), the ayatollahs' regime (which won’t be easily felled), and his assurance that there are s...
4 Syys 20251h 1min
Episode 39: Fear and loathing in the diaspora, live in Oslo with Bjørn Gabrielsen.
During an August speaking tour in Norway, Haviv was interviewed at an event hosted by the remarkable Jewish organization Kos & Kaos - The Nordic Jewish Network. It's a unique group founded in 2016 tha...
31 Elo 20251h 59min
Episode 38: What will it take to defeat Hamas? With Prof. John Spencer
Twenty-three months after the October 7 attack, Hamas is massively degraded in Gaza. At a terrible cost to Gaza itself, and after losing hundreds of IDF soldiers on the battlefield, Israel has managed...
27 Elo 20251h 13min
Episode 37: The genocidal claim of genocide with Adam Louis-Klein
Many of our Patreon subscribers have asked us to address the campaign against Israel that accuses it of genocide, colonialism and so on. This episode is the beginning of our deep dive into examining t...
22 Elo 202558min
Episode 36: How marginalized Mizrahim became Israel's first spies
Long before the operational successes of the Mossad would become the stuff of legend in the espionage world, before the Twelve Day War, before Eli Cohen, before the Mossad itself had even come into be...
15 Elo 202556min
Episode 35: Solving hunger in Gaza with Prof. Yannay Spitzer
Professor Yannay Spitzer is an economic historian who has studied food and hunger. His efforts over the past month to get real reliable data on hunger out of Gaza and publicize it to Israelis, data th...
8 Elo 202552min
Episode 34: My life in Al-Qaeda, a conversation with Aimen Dean
Aimen Dean was once a fervent young jihadi fighter, a passionate believer in radical Sunni Islam who had memorized the Quran by 12 and was fighting in the Bosnian jihad by 16.Haviv talked to Aimen abo...
6 Elo 20252h 9min
Episode 33: Thoughts for Tisha B’Av - We live in history
Our Patreon subscribers asked for a dvar Torah, a short homily, on the Jewish fast day of Tisha B'Av, which commemorates many of the great tragedies of Jewish history, including and especially the des...
3 Elo 202531min
