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"Lucy" is a sex worker in Amsterdam.

Jonathan Pollard spent nearly 30 years in U.S. prisons after he was caught spying on the American government in 1985. Successive Israeli governments tried to negotiate his release until he was freed in 2015. He moved to Israel in December 2020.

Shawn Eni is the man behind the Mossad parody account on Twitter. You can follow him @TheMossadIL

Michael Fertik is the managing director and founder of Heroic Ventures , an early-stage venture capital firm investing in startups in Silicon Valley, Colorado, and Israel. He is also the executive chairman and founder of Reputation.com . Follow Michael on Twitter @MichaelFertik Find Michael on Linkedin Michael’s literary works can be found at www.fertik.com

Aleeza Ben Shalom is a dating coach and the star of the Netflix show Jewish Matchmaking. She's also authored two books: Virtual Dating: Your Guide to a Relationship in a Socially Distanced World Get Real Get Married: Get Over your Hurdles and Under the Chuppah Check out her website: https://marriagemindedmentor.com Follow her: Twitter: @aleezabenshalom Instagram: aleezabenshalom

Ehud Olmert was Israel's prime minister from January 2006 until March 2009. He was also mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 until 2003.

Dan Brahmy is the CEO and co-founder of Cyabra, an Israeli startup that uncovers threats to companies and individuals on social media. Company link: https://cyabra.com/ Follow Dan on Twitter: @danbrahmy Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danbrahmy/

Rabbi Leo Dee worked in finance in the UK before becoming a rabbi and then moving with his family to Israel. His two daughters, Maia and Rina, were killed in a terror attack on April 7, 2023. His wife, Lucy, died three days later.

Some thoughts on the recent protests and what it means for Israel.

Josh Drill is an activist and spokesman for the national protests against dictatorship in Israel.

Oren Kaniel is the co-founder and CEO of AppsFlyer.

Tomer Fekete is the director of science at brain.space. This conversation was recorded before Benjamin Netanyahu fired Israel's defense minister on March 26.

A conversation with Lahav Larkov, Senior Contributing Editor and Diplomatic Correspondent of The Jerusalem Post. Follow her @LahavHarkov.

A conversation with Dov Moran, one of the OGs of Israel's high-tech industry, a serial entrepreneur, author, and now managing partner at Grove Ventures.

A conversation with the author and journalist Matti Friedman.  We talk about his latest book, Who By Fire, which is about Leonard Cohen's time near the front lines of combat between Israeli and Egyptian forces in the Yom Kippur War. We also talk about his 2014 articles about media bias against Israel, how Israel was patient zero for wokeness in the media, the paradox of hiring journalists who...

A conversation with Neil Goldstein. Neil is super knowledgeable about all things lighting, given his work on the sets of Captain America the Winter Soldier, Eurovision 2019 and Cirque du Soleil.  We talk about how light helps tell a story, how lighting can create an illusion of shifting shapes for buildings, Cleveland's secret status as Hollywood's little brother, the evolution of film projec...

A conversation with Jonathan Geifman, CEO of Helios. The company is developing a way to extract oxygen and metals from lunar and even martian soil, with the double-barreled aim of making deep space exploration more reachable, and cutting down emissions on Earth from heavy industries like steel production. We touch on a whole bunch of topics: what's been holding up progress in space travel, how pow...

A chat about life, love, philosophy, the mind, the universe and ourselves with the neuroscientist Tomer Fekete.

A rollicking conversation with my friend Abigail Singer Bahumi. We talk and argue about 10 rules I made up to fight back against our smartphone addiction. They are: 1. Leave the kids alone! 2. If you can’t see the sun, don’t send that text 3. Online 4. Always remember that no one cares about your selfies 5. Keep food and phone separate 6. Watch where you’re going! 7. Don’t type anything you wouldn...

A conversation with Ari Harow, CEO of Itur Financial Intelligence, and former chief of staff to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  We spoke about what life was like growing up in Israel in the 80s and 90s, what seeing death does to young people, moving to the US and being a Zionist activist, starting off in the world of Likud politics, the difference between Benjamin Netanyahu and ot...

A conversation about privacy in the modern world with Yaron Rosen. He is the co-founder of a cyber security startups Toka and Illuminant Defense. Yaron served most of his +30 years in the Israel Defense Forces in the air force. His final post was as Chief of the IDF's Cyber Staff. We talk about the dividing line between selling hacking tools to autocratic and democratic regimes, the psychological...

A conversation with Tamar Liberman. She is the CEO and co-founder of It's July, a platform that connects families looking to hang out. We talk about how loneliness is plaguing families, how families decide with whom to hang out with, how she founded the company during the height of Covid, the category of "fam-tech," the challenges of being a woman startup founder, and the stigmas attached to, and...

A conversation with Rosalie Korper about dating apps like Tinder and Bumble.  We talk about how men and women experience the apps, my theory on love  at first sight, the benefits of playing hard to get, tests for long-term  compatibility men and women set for their dates, the incentives for the  app companies, what we think about how our kids will be on the apps, and even dickp...

A conversation with Sarah Ward. We talk about her experience finding out about her complications around conceiving naturally, what it's like physically and emotionally to go through IVF treatment, how the therapy cycles affected her relationship with her husband Elliot, how she approaches the possibility of never having children, what keeps her going with treatment despite the stress, the pros and...

My conversation with Yoav Reisler, whose mothers were the first lesbian couple to have biological children in Israel. We talk about what it's been like to not know your biological father, the bullying he experienced in school, coming out as a gay man, his decision to be a sperm donor, the process for gay couples to become parents and the lessons from childhood he plans to apply when he becomes a f...