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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 202531min
Episode 32: Hunger and the Gaza war
There is now hunger in Gaza, widespread and dangerous. It's less dire than Western media claims, but could reach those proportions if it isn't reversed through an aid surge.How did we get to this poin...
31 Jul 202545min
Episode 31: The century-old harbinger of October 7, a conversation with Yardena Schwartz
Welcome to a special episode of Ask Haviv Anything. This episode was a live conversation with author Yardena Schwartz taped last week at Martha's Vineyard and hosted by Chabad on the Vineyard.Please n...
27 Jul 20251h
Episode 30: How the Middle East broke, a conversation with Hussein Aboubakr Mansour
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour was born and raised in Egypt before fleeing to the United States and dedicating his life to understanding how the Arab world came to be defined by state failure, religious ext...
21 Jul 20251h 19min
Episode 29: After the Druze massacre, can Israel make peace with Joulani? A conversation with Druze activist Rania Fadel Dean
The clashes in Sweida in southern Syria this week focused world attention on the plight of the Druze and questions about the nature of the new Syrian government. Videos and claims of atrocities drove ...
17 Jul 202555min
