Israel Policy Pod

Hosts Evan Gottesman and Eli Kowaz speak with Dan Rothem, CEO of Commander's for Israel's Security, about how the movement of high-ranking ex-generals is confronting the imminent threat of West Bank annexation.For a follow-up to the discussion, join Israel Policy Forum for a video briefing with Israeli pollster Gilad Hirschberger on the Israeli public's reaction to annexation. The program will take place on Tuesday, May 5 at 2pm ET/11am PT. Click here to register.To read Commanders for Israel's Security's West Bank annexation study, click here.To read the recent op-ed by Commanders for Israel's Security members in Foreign Policy, click here.Support the showFollow us on Instagram, Twitter/X, and Bluesky, and subscribe to our email list here.

Host Evan Gottesman speaks with Association for Civil Rights in Israel Executive Director Sharon Abraham-Weiss and Abir Joubran-Dakwar, Director for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories at ACRI about access to healthcare services in East Jerusalem, an area whose residents have long been locked in political and legal limbo.Support the showFollow us on Instagram, Twitter/X, and Bluesky, and subscribe to our email list here.

Evan Gottesman and Eli Kowaz discuss the Netanyahu-Gantz coalition agreement, which calls for annexation deliberations to begin July 1.Support the showFollow us on Instagram, Twitter/X, and Bluesky, and subscribe to our email list here.

Hosts Evan Gottesman and Eli Kowaz discuss the unthinkable: a fourth Israeli Knesset election in the span of just over a year (and in the middle of a pandemic, no less).Support the showFollow us on Instagram, Twitter/X, and Bluesky, and subscribe to our email list here.

Hosts Evan Gottesman and Eli Kowaz speak with former Member of Knesset and Green Movement leader Stav Shaffir about the collapse of the Labor Party and how the Israeli left can rebuild.Support the showFollow us on Instagram, Twitter/X, and Bluesky, and subscribe to our email list here.

Host Evan Gottesman speaks with Ilan Goldenberg, Israel Policy Forum policy advisor and senior fellow and director at the Center for a New American Security Middle East Security Program, about the new world being shaped by coronavirus, and where Israelis and Palestinians fit into a conversation dominated by fear of pandemics and a global public health crisis.Support the showFollow us on Instagram, Twitter/X, and Bluesky, and subscribe to our email list here.

Hosts Evan Gottesman and Eli Kowaz discuss shake-ups and breakups on the Israeli center-left, as Kachol Lavan and Labor-Gesher-Meretz fragment over the question of an emergency unity government.Support the showFollow us on Instagram, Twitter/X, and Bluesky, and subscribe to our email list here.

Dr. Shira Efron joins hosts Evan Gottesman and Margaux Nijkerk to discuss the spread of the novel coronavirus to the Gaza Strip and why the Palestinian coastal enclave could be especially hard hit by the public health crisis. Dr. Efron co-authored the RAND Corporation study "The Public Health Impacts of Gaza's Water Crisis." To read the study, click here.Support the showFollow us on Instagram, Twitter/X, and Bluesky, and subscribe to our email list here.

Israel Policy Forum's new study, "In Search of a Viable Option," evaluates seven potential outcomes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this episode, hosts Evan Gottesman and Eli Kowaz explore two of those approaches, one Jewish state, and the Trump plan, with Dr. Shaul Arieli, a retired colonel in the IDF and an expert on the geography of the West Bank and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Map link: ipf.li/wbmapSupport the showFollow us on Instagram, Twitter/X, and Bluesky, and subscribe to our email list here.

From tracking cell phones to curbing the activities of the Knesset, recent actions undertaken by Israel's caretaker government have critics alleging that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and allies like Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein are using the coronavirus as a pretext to consolidate authoritarian rule. Israeli officials counter that extreme circumstances are a legitimate basis for extreme measures. To better understand the legitimacy (or lack thereof) of these policies, host Evan Gottesman and former Israeli Deputy Attorney General Joshua Schoffman break down the question: is that legal?Support the showFollow us on Instagram, Twitter/X, and Bluesky, and subscribe to our email list here.