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Flooding the Israeli press: October 7 could have been much worse. This war could be far from over. And we might be alone.
Almost everywhere you turn in the Hebrew press, there are signs of ongoing Israeli vulnerability that it's hard to pick up from abroad.
 • Daniel Gordis
43:53
Did the Ayatollahs hasten their own demise by destroying the water system Israel built for them?
No one knows water better than Seth Siegel, author of the best-selling LET THERE BE WATER. He explains a mostly unknown side of Israel's former…
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45:12
Israelis living in America who want their kids to feel Israeli face a challenge. Scouts has a solution.
Tzofim, the Israeli scout movement, has established scout branches across the world. We hear from Shira Argov and Tomer Malamoud, two high school…
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4:40
"Ema, stop it with all your bullsh*t about innocent Gazans. They don't exist." A polite (I hope) but brutally honest discussion with…
J-Street's Jeremy Ben Ami & Ilan Goldenberg invited me to be interviewed on J-Street's podcast. They graciously agreed to allow us to share the…
 • Daniel Gordis
0:46
The last hostage is found and brought home; a nation sighs in relief, but with abiding sadness
Watch now | Many, far too many, did not come home to their families. Despite the deep relief at the return of Ran Gvili to Israel for burial, the pain…
 • Daniel Gordis
52:07
What happens when post-army Israelis take their proverbial trip to India, but then have a PTSD crisis far from home?
Tamar Friedman, a military mental health officer, and Hezi Shohat, a trauma social worker, knew someone needed to be there for those people. They went…
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These Israelis are desperately begging for help, while Haredim chuckle at the mere thought they'll ever lend a hand.
Hanoch Daum on a meeting he attended—a group of mothers with sons who suffered grievous brain injuries in the war. While another woman, at the Knesset…
 • Daniel Gordis
56:56
What's "patrimonialism"? It's what you end up with when democracy withers—and what we already have, to some degree.
It's not "authoritarianism" we should fear, argues Professor Jeffrey Kopstein. "Patrimonialism" is both more subtle and perhaps more dangerous. And, he…
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Back to the desert, so they can build the future
A seemingly innocuous meeting of a group of young couples speaks volumes about the resilience of Israel's society, and how its future is being written…
 • Daniel Gordis
56:46
Is Democracy in Israel in Retreat? Two leading Israeli jurists explain why they believe it is.
Prof. Yaniv Roznai is Vice-Dean of the Law School at Reichman University. He discusses his new book and his deep for the future of Israeli democracy.
 • Daniel Gordis
"Today, at your wife's wedding..."
Hagai Lober pens a "note" to his son, Yehonatan, z'l, killed in Gaza in 2023, on the day that his widow remarried.
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A field trip to a shiva, because "grief is the price we pay for love."
In what kind of a country do you take fifth graders to a shiva? In a country where the goal is not to shield them, but to teach them.
 • Daniel Gordis
54:12
The US may not renew the MOU guaranteeing Israel's $3.8B / year military support. But does Israel even need it anymore?
Jordan Hirsch and Eyal Hulata in conversation about Hirsch's dramatic call for a wholesale rethinking of American Judaism's major institutions—and what…
 • Daniel Gordis
2:50
"What I do now as a commander is to make sure that the soldiers don't kill themselves."
It's mostly quiet on the fronts, so Haredi draft and this government's willingness to abandon those willing to serve, is, at least in my circles, the…
 • Daniel Gordis
Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis
Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis
Israel from the Inside is for people who want to understand Israel with nuance, who believe that Israel is neither hopelessly flawed and illegitimate, nor beyond critique. If thoughtful analysis of Israel and its people interests you, welcome!
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