Israel Policy Pod

Is American aid to the Palestinians over? Israel Policy Pod host Evan Gottesman asks Dave Harden, former assistant administrator for USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance. Harden has managed USAID's work in the Palestinian territories, where he led the the agency's mission for over a decade, as well as in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Haiti.Support the showFollow us on Instagram and Twitter/X, and subscribe to our email list here.

Hosts Eli Kowaz and Evan Gottesman discuss the nation-state law with IDF Brig. Gen. (res.) Amal Asad. Special thanks to Shanie Reichman for English-language voice-over. Support the showFollow us on Instagram and Twitter/X, and subscribe to our email list here.

Israel Policy Pod host Evan Gottesman speaks with Tania Hary, executive director of Gisha, an Israeli NGO working to improve Palestinian freedom of movement in and out of Gaza. Support the showFollow us on Instagram and Twitter/X, and subscribe to our email list here.

Eli and Evan discuss the nation-state law passed by the Knesset and Birthright walkouts by American Jews with Israeli journalist Allison Kaplan Sommer.Support the showFollow us on Instagram and Twitter/X, and subscribe to our email list here.

Hosts Eli Kowaz and Evan Gottesman are joined by Israel Policy Forum's Israel Fellow Nimrod Novik to discuss the Trump administration peace plan and debate whether the administration has a Plan B. Israel Policy Forum Executive Director David A. Halperin joins at the end to discuss the new 50 Steps Before the Deal Initiative.Support the showFollow us on Instagram and Twitter/X, and subscribe to our email list here.

Israel Policy Forum Executive Director David A. Halperin returns from the organization's leadership delegation to Israel and the West Bank and shares his impressions abut conditions on the ground and the launch of the 50 Steps Before The Deal initiative.Support the showFollow us on Instagram and Twitter/X, and subscribe to our email list here.

Oxford University's Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn, author of "City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement," joins the podcast to share her expertise on the state of the settlement enterprise in the occupied territories, the American role there, and changing Diaspora Jewish demographics that promise to reshape Israel's external relations.Support the showFollow us on Instagram and Twitter/X, and subscribe to our email list here.

Eli and Evan are joined by Elizabeth Tsurkov, a research fellow at Israel's Forum for Regional Thinking, to talk about developments with Israel, Russia, Iran, and the Assad regime in southern Syria.Support the showFollow us on Instagram and Twitter/X, and subscribe to our email list here.

Lior Schillat of the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research joins Eli and Evan to talk about the new development plan for East Jerusalem, recently approved by the Israeli cabinet.Support the showFollow us on Instagram and Twitter/X, and subscribe to our email list here.

Pnina Sharvit Baruch joins Eli and Evan to talk about the IDF's conduct responding to the Gaza demonstrations.Support the showFollow us on Instagram and Twitter/X, and subscribe to our email list here.

Executive Director David A. Halperin and Evan Gottesman are joined by former Israeli deputy defense minister and retired IDF Brigadier General Ephraim Sneh to discuss how the United States exit from the Iran nuclear deal will play out in the global arena, and on Israel's doorstep.Support the showFollow us on Instagram and Twitter/X, and subscribe to our email list here.

Dr. Shira Efron, special adviser on Israel at the RAND Corporation's Center for Middle East Public Policy, joins hosts Eli Kowaz and Evan Gottesman to discuss the festering humanitarian crisis in Gaza, touching on major issues in the Strip's public health, governance, and relations with Israel.Support the showFollow us on Instagram and Twitter/X, and subscribe to our email list here.

Neri Zilber joins Eli and Evan to break down misconceptions about the Palestinian Authority Security Force (PASF).Read Neri Zilber and Ghaith Al-Omari's full report "State with No Army, Army with No State:" LINK: ipf.li/pasfreportSupport the showFollow us on Instagram and Twitter/X, and subscribe to our email list here.

This week's episode features Israel Policy Forum’s 2018 Joseph Forum - a distinguished panel on Israel leadership held this past week at the Harmonie Club in New York City featuring Dr. Anita Shapira, Ambassador Itamar Rabinovich, and Rabbi Daniel Gordis. Each has written a biography of a different Israeli prime minister - David Ben-Gurion, Yitzhak Rabin, and Menachem Begin, respectively. They are joined by moderator Natan Sachs, an Israel expert from the Brookings Institution.Support the showFollow us on Instagram and Twitter/X, and subscribe to our email list here.

Former Israeli National Security Adviser Chuck Freilich joins Eli Kowaz and Evan Gottesman Israel's security strategy or lack thereof.Support the showFollow us on Instagram and Twitter/X, and subscribe to our email list here.

Israel Policy Forum's Eli Kowaz and Evan Gottesman talk about Benjamin Netanyahu's future after the Israel Police's indictment recommendation with Ben Caspit, a senior journalist for Ma'ariv and Al-Monitor and author of the new book The Netanyahu Years.Support the showFollow us on Instagram and Twitter/X, and subscribe to our email list here.

Eli Kowaz and Noa Shusterman talk with Hussein Ibish, Senior Resident Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, about Israel's emerging relationships with the Arab world and the impact of Trump's Jerusalem announcement.Support the showFollow us on Instagram and Twitter/X, and subscribe to our email list here.

Dr. Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez of the Hebrew University's Truman Institute join Israel Policy Forum's Eli Kowaz and Evan Gottesman to discuss their new book, "The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967-1973: The U.S.S.R.'s Military Intervention In The Egyptian-Israeli Conflict" (Oxford University Press), examining what lessons from the Israeli experience in the Cold War can be applied to present-day Russian military intervention on the Jewish state's borders in Syria and Egypt.Support the showFollow us on Instagram and Twitter/X, and subscribe to our email list here.

IPF's Noa Shusterman and Adam Basciano speak with Michael Davies, a British high-school history teacher, about the Balfour Declaration's role in modern British society and the challenge of tackling this controversial issue in the classroom.Support the showFollow us on Instagram and Twitter/X, and subscribe to our email list here.

IPF's Noa Shusterman and Adam Basciano talk with Ghaith al-Omari, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute and the former executive director of the American Task Force on Palestine, about the nature of the Palestinian reconciliation process and how it affects the regional politics.Support the showFollow us on Instagram and Twitter/X, and subscribe to our email list here.