Prof. Yaacov Ro’i, author of “The Jewish Movement in the Soviet Union,” discusses the specific features of the movement and what distinguished it from other dissident movements in the Communist bloc.
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“I was deceived by the stars. / There was a dream; it passed. / I have nothing at all in the world, / nothing but a vast waste.”
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As a CIA intelligence analyst in the 1960s, Sovietologist Galia Golan predicted the Prague Spring. She later moved to Israel and became a successful academic and activist.
Read MoreDr Michael Gilmont of King’s College, London, who has studied the policy of water management in Israel over the years. This winter is the driest Israel has known in its recorded history – should we be thankful to consecutive governments for their forward planning that left us with a sufficient amount of fresh water despite the severe drought?
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Distinguished Israeli journalist David Landau joins Gilad Halpern in the studio to discuss his recently published book ‘Arik: The Life of Ariel Sharon.’
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Rachel Bluwstein-Sela (aka “Rahel the Poet”) was one of the first female poets in the Hebrew language since the biblical Deborah.
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Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian Territories just doesn’t make financial sense, says entrepreneur and financier Tal Keinan.
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