


Recent Episodes
“Hamas Is Not Going Anywhere”
Dr Michael Milstein analyzes what Israeli military leaders and political decision-makers got - and are still getting - wrong about Hamas
Hope. Yes, Hope
Many see Hamas' Oct. 7th attack as having delivered a tremendous blow to the hope of a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In Dr Oded Adomi Leshem's new book, the facts and figures paint a more complex picture
Special Podcast Series
About the Hosts

Gilad Halpern
Gilad is a journalist, broadcaster and media historian. He is also a founding co-editor of the Tel Aviv Review of Books magazine, an English-language online quarterly, and an Idit Fellow at the University of Haifa, researching the history of the Jewish press in Mandatory Palestine. Previously he was Managing Editor for Ynetnews and Assignments Editor for Haaretz English Edition. His work appeared on the BBC, Al Jazeera, Al Monitor, Time Out magazine, the Jewish Quarterly and the Jewish Chronicle.

Dr. Yael Berda
Dr. Yael Berda is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Hebrew University, and a fellow at Middle East initiative at Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She received her PhD from Princeton University; her MA from Tel Aviv University, and her LLB from Hebrew University faculty of Law. Previously a practicing Human Rights lawyer, representing clients in Military, District and Supreme courts in Israel, her most recent books are Living Emergency: Israel's Permit Regime in the West Bank and Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergencies in the Former British Empire.
Before and After 1948: Gaza, a Prehistory
How did Gaza come to encapsulate 1948, and the essence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Dr. Dotan Halevy discusses the history of Gaza from the mid-19th century until today