Leading Conversations - the Begin Center Podcast

This episode continues our series of conversations about the men - and one woman – who served as Prime Minister of Israel. Michael Oren is a historian, author, diplomat, and former Israeli Ambassador to the United States. Dr. Oren is the bestselling author of several books on Middle Eastern history and international affairs, including "Six Days of War" and "Ally". *We apologize for some problems w...

This episode continues our series of conversations about the men - and one woman – who served as Prime Minister of Israel. Prof. Meron Medzini, who worked as Golda Meir’s spokesperson and wrote an acclaimed biography of her, discusses Israel’s iconic fourth Prime Minister – one of the country’s most popular leaders abroad, but under-appreciated at home. *We apologize for some problems with the sou...

This episode continues our series of conversations about the men - and one woman – who served as Prime Minister ofIsrael. Prof. Yoav Gelber, professor emeritus of history at the University of Haifa discusses Moshe Sharett; Israel’s first foreign minister and second prime minister, who tirelessly pursued diplomacy and the possibilities of peace. *We apologise for some problems with the sound qualit...

This episode marks the first in a new series of conversations about the men - and one woman – who served as Prime Minister of Israel. Prof. Michael Bar Zohar discusses David Ben Gurion, whose leadership and decisions in Israel’s early years set the agenda for so much that followed. Prof. Bar Zohar is a former member of Knesset, journalist and writer of several books; including biographies of both...

This episode is a recording of a live webinar, part of a series in collaboration with the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy & Security (JISS), one of Israel's leading think tanks. Qatar has an outsize influence in the Middle East and beyond because of its vast wealth from oil and natural gas, and because of the reach of its Al Jazeera news network. As the principal funder of Hamas and as a...

This episode is a recording of a live webinar, part of a series in collaboration with the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy & Security (JISS), one of Israel's leading think tanks. Prof. Gabi Siboni is a long-time military expert who serves as a consultant to the IDF and is the former director of the military and strategic affairs program of the Institute for National Security Studies. He is...

This episode is a recording of a live webinar, the third in our series in collaboration with the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy & Security (JISS), one of Israel's leading think tanks. The Trump plan which ended the war holds out the conditional offer to the Palestinian Authority of resuming governance of Gaza in the future, the condition being “reform”. In such a scenario, the Trump prop...

This episode is a recording of a live webinar, the second in a series of eight, in collaboration with the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy & Security (JISS), one of Israel's leading think tanks. Begin Center Senior Fellow Paul Gross was joined by the Vice-President of the JISS, Eran Lerman, who shared his assessment of the current situation in Gaza and the possible developments, as Preside...

This episode is a recording of a live webinar, the first in a series of eight, in collaboration with the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy & Security (JISS), one of Israel's leading think tanks. Begin Center Senior Fellow was joined by the Head of the JISS, Yossi Kuperwasser, who gives a wide-ranging assessment of Israel’s strategic options as it surveys the much-changed, post-war Middle Ea...

This episode is a recording of a live webinar that took place in November. In his new book Benjamin Kerstein issues a powerful call to action for American Jews confronting the rising tide of antisemitism. He challenges Jews to break free from long-standing patterns of passivity and embrace the Jewish legacy of physical self-defense, in the spirit of Zionist thinkers like Ze’ev Jabotinsky. In conve...

In this fourth episode of the Begin Center's new podcast series on the idea of "liberal nationalism", the political philosophy underlying the worldviews of Ze'ev Jabotinsky and Menachem Begin, Senior Fellow Paul Gross talks to Professor Steven B. Smith, the Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science at Yale University and author of "Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extre...

In this third episode of the Begin Center's new podcast series on the idea of "liberal nationalism", the political philosophy underlying the worldviews of Ze'ev Jabotinsky and Menachem Begin, Senior Fellow Paul Gross talks to Polly Bronstein, CEO and founder of the One-Hundred initiative and author of the book: “How I became a moderate - a journey from left to center”. Polly expl...

In this second episode of the Begin Center's new podcast series on the idea of "liberal nationalism", the political philosophy underlying the worldviews of Ze'ev Jabotinsky and Menachem Begin, Senior Fellow Paul Gross talks to former MK and former Special Envoy for Combatting Antisemitism, Michal Cotler-Wunsh. Cotler-Wunsh was recently appointed CEO of the International Legal For...

The Menachem Begin Heritage Center's new podcast in English begins with a series of conversations about the idea of "liberal nationalism", the political philosophy underlying theworldviews of Ze'ev Jabotinsky and Menachem Begin. In this first episode, Begin Center Senior Fellow Paul Gross talks to former Justice Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Dan Meridor. Meridor served as c...