Ronit Heyd: 'If Israel becomes less democratic, it will become less Jewish'
You cannot separate Israel’s democratic and Jewish identity, Ronit says. The two are interdependent in the Jewish state.Ronit Heyd is an Israeli social leader and activist who spent over 20 years lead...
5 Aug 202456min
Yehoshua Pfeffer: 'The army is not ready for real Haredi participation'
The Israeli government’s draft of Haredi men is no simple matter—but Yehoshua Pfeffer has some ideas for moving forward.Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer is a Haredi social thinker and activist intimately involv...
29 Jul 202455min
Anita Shapira: 'You cannot wipe out Hamas'
After Auschwitz, Anita Shapira says, Jews understood the necessity of power—and the necessity of statehood.A leading Israeli historian and author, she is professor emerita of Jewish History at Tel Avi...
22 Jul 202445min
David Horovitz: 'We need this state to survive'
No news outlet is utterly reliable these days, David Horovitz says. You always need one eyebrow raised.The founding editor of Time of Israel — with tens of millions of monthly readers, and ranked as t...
15 Jul 202448min
Sivan Rahav-Meir: 'When it comes to terrorism, you can't compromise'
Israel's fight against Hamas, Sivan Rahav-Meir says, is preventing another Oct. 7—and another Sept. 11.The Israeli religious journalist — voted Israel’s most popular media personality — grew up secula...
8 Jul 202445min
Yakov Nagen: 'Jewish Messianism is a vision for all of humanity'
To Rabbi Yakov Nagen, the Jewish-Muslim fraternity will be the major breakthrough of the 21st century.This Religious Zionist rabbi is at the forefront of interfaith dialogue and peace work in Israel b...
1 Jul 20241h 2min
Benny Morris: 'We should have taken Rafah at the start'
If you want to understand Israel, then you need to know Benny Morris.Prof. Benny Morris is a leading Israeli historian who revolutionized the field of Israeli history by digging into the government’s ...
24 Jun 202435min
Coming Soon: 18 Questions, 40 Israeli Thinkers
18 Questions, 40 Israeli Thinkers is a new podcast by 18Forty interviewing Israel's leading voices to explore critical questions on Zionism, the Israel-Hamas War, democracy, morality, Judaism, peace, ...
18 Jun 20241min
