Latma episode 3 – Coalition talks in the time of corona
Here’s episode 3 of our season of Latma on Israel Channel 20 with English subtitles. Enjoy and share with your friends!
Here’s episode 3 of our season of Latma on Israel Channel 20 with English subtitles. Enjoy and share with your friends!
We are living through a grave crisis. And crises have a knack for clarifying fundamental truths. The coronavirus pandemic has exposed several of them. First, our ability to control our world is limited. An unknown number of months ago, through unclear means, the coronavirus broke out in China and landed in the rest of the world shortly thereafter. Over the…
After a 7 year absence, Latma, the greatest Israeli satire series ever, (and the one I founded and run), is back. Two weeks ago we ran our first episode of Latma2020 on Israel Channel 20. Last night we broadcast Episode 3. Below are the English subtitled version of Episode 1 and the musical clip from Episode 2. We hope to…
On April 25, the Im Tirtzu Zionist student organization hosted a web symposium to mark the centennial of the San Remo Conference where the world powers recognized Israel’s national rights to the Land of Israel. The asked me to speak about the long-term lessons and consequences of the conference for the Jewish people in Israel and throughout the world.
The coalition talks between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz are being held behind closed doors. A lot of contradictory information is being leaked about the issues on the table and about the form of the deal for a unity government being hammered out. But all the leaks are consistent about one aspect of…
In the face of the steeply rising number of coronavirus patients and the breakneck speed of political changes in Israel, few people have stopped to notice that the world we have grown accustomed to living in for the past generation is falling apart. The global village is collapsing under the weight of the pandemic. How Israel deals with this dramatic…
Earlier today I gave a web lecture to the Tikvah Fund on the rise of the anti-Zionist Joint Arab list and the tribalization of Israeli politics. Enjoy and share. Tikvah Live with Caroline Glick: The New Arab Bloc and the Future of Israeli Sovereignty Two things seem clear from the recent series of elections in Israel: the anti-Zionist Joint Arab…
If Blue and White Party leader MK Benny Gantz forms a minority government with Avigdor Liberman’s Israel Beitenu Party and the Labor-Meretz party, based on the outside support of the Joint Arab List, Gantz’s success will torpedo Israel’s relations with the United States. This week, a senior official who was present during Gantz’s meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in…
MK Ofer Shelah from the Blue and White party is the architect of his party’s current efforts to form a government with the support of Joint Arab List. If Shelah succeeds, he will have formed a radical, post-Zionist minority government entirely dependent on 15 Arab lawmakers, who reject Israel’s right to exist, just to stay afloat. As Shelah blazed forward…
Last week I was honored to speak on the main stage at CPAC along with Gov. Scott Walker, Cong. Lee Zeldin and Yishai Fleischer about what Israel’s map ought to look like. Here is the video of our presentation.