The Good Kind of Viral: Corona Diplomacy:
Two years ago, Israel & the world were taken by storm with the spread of a new & dangerous virus known today as COVID 19. While the virus continues to spread (this time with variants like Delta and Om...
9 Feb 202238min
Normalization is the new norm: Israel-UAE ties
On August 16, Israel and the United Arab Emirates made history with the announcement that the two countries would establish diplomatic ties. This episode of Persona Grata gives our listeners a sneak p...
7 Jun 202117min
"Corona Non Grata" : How Israel’s curbing the Coronavirus and spreading diplomacy
10,000 young Israelis stranded abroad, dozens of countries and airports locked down, hundreds of embassies shuttered, 90 repatriation flights and one major epidemic. On this episode of Persona Grata w...
1 Nov 202023min
Israel's Humanitarian Assistance Efforts Around the Globe
On this episode of Persona Grata, we’ll meet the people behind Israel's humanitarian missions which have come to the aid of more than 140 countries and thousands of people since Israel's founding. Fro...
19 Aug 201929min
חוויה פוגשת שליחות - קורס הצוערים מבפנים
(This episode of Persona Grata is a special edition in Hebrew, which discusses the Israel MFA's elite Cadets Course, which trains future Israeli diplomats.) רילוקיישין או מעבר למדינה אחרת, מחייב אותך ...
11 Jun 201918min
Does Digital Make the Diplomat? On Game of Thrones, Memes, and Twitter Wars.
From the Arab Spring in 2011, to the US Presidential election in 2016, to clap backs on Twitter between countries like Israel and Iran in 2018, world leaders, MFAs and diplomats have realized that wha...
22 Mai 201924min
Israel is Coming Back to Africa: Israel's First Resident Ambassador to Rwanda
Israel's relationship with the African continent began in the years following Israel's independence. When many African countries including Rwanda established independence in the early 1960s, Israel wh...
5 Apr 201916min
