Untangling Israeli Politics - with Amit Segal

You may recognize journalist Amit Segal from Dan Senor’s “Call Me Back” podcast, or his contributions to The Free Press. Israelis know him as Channel 12’s Chief Political Correspondent, co-host of our local version of “Meet the Press”, and author of the newly-translated bestseller: “A Call at 4 AM: Thirteen Prime Ministers and the Crucial Decisions that Shaped Israeli Politics”. He also publishes the wildly succesful and very useful daily newsletter “It’s Noon in Israel”.

We discuss the madness of the Israeli political system, why Israeli media has no choice but to try and be objective, where Americans should get their news, the ultra-orthodox question, and what it was like to be stuck on a broken plane filled with Knesset members and holocaust survivors.

This episode NOT sponsored by Chaya Leah’s brother’s laundromat Super Clean in Jerusalem.

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