The Benjamin Anthony Show from the MirYam Institute

Join Benjamin with Yaakov on the balcony in Rishon Letzion for their most strikingly informal yet serious conversation to date.  Following a report that President Biden called for an immediate ceasefire during his recent phone call with Prime Minister Netanyahu, Benjamin sat down to discuss the implications of such a demand with Yaakov Lappin, In-House Analyst at The MirYam Institute.  Gaza, Leban...

This is Benjamin's own narration of an op-ed published in the Jerusalem Post on Sunday, February 18th 2024. Originally titled "Egypt and Gazans Must Reap What They Sowed," it was penned shortly after Israel's heroic rescue of two of our hostages and as the prospect of an IDF incursion into the city of Rafah in southern Gaza continues to gather steam and momentum.  The written v...

In this episode of the podcast, I'm joined by Aviram Meir, uncle of Almog Meir-Jan. Almog was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7th. He's a 21 year old civilian. Aviram and I discuss how he sees the current stage of the negotiations for the release of the hostages and he expresses the guilt he carries as the relative of a hostage in the pursuit of whose freedom and return, soldiers of the ID...

In this episode of the briefing, I'm joined by Avi Bell, professor of law at Bar Ilan University and University of San Diego, Yaakov Lappin, In-House Analyst at The MirYam Institute and David Hacham, former Advisor on Arab Affairs to successive Israeli Ministers of Defense and a retired Colonel in the IDF. Prof. Bell and I began by discussing the ICJ ruling in response to the case brought by...

In this episode, I'm joined by Yaakov Lappin, In-House Analyst at The MirYam Institute.  He and I discuss the different visions for the day after the war, as outlined by the US President and Prime Minister Netanyahu, what's taking place in Judea and Samaria and whether or not Israel should be acting more decisively and directly against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and against Iran itsel...

In this episode of the podcast, I sit down to interview Iris Haim, mother of Yotam Haim Z"L, who was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7th, 2023, and killed by IDF soldiers on December 15th, 2023, as the result of a horrific operational miscalculation.  On October 7th, 2023, during the murderous massacre against Israel launched by Hamas, Iris's son, Yotam, was kidnapped from his home in Kibb...

Amir Tibon moved with his wife Miri to the pastoral Kibbutz Nahal Oz, right on the Gaza border, after the 2014 Israel-Gaza war. The couple, then without children, wanted to support the small community. They fell in love with the place and stayed. A year ago, they bought a house there. On the morning of October 7, the sounds of falling mortars drove the couple into the reinforced “safe room” in whi...

In this episode of the podcast, you'll hear my conversation with New York Times Opinion Columnist Bret Stephens.  Recorded in front of a live audience in Manhattan on November 7th, 2023, to commemorate a month since the Hamas terror attack against Israel, Bret discusses the alarming rise of overt antisemitism on American campuses and in the American public square, including marches and demons...

On November 20th, 2023, we brought Orit and Aviram Meir, mother and uncle of Almog Meir-Jan respectively, to the British House of Commons to tell their story. Almog was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7th and remains in captivity to this day.     They were joined by Iris Haim, a palliative care nurse whose son Yotam was also kidnapped and remains a hostage to this day.     Doron Libshtein’s brother,...

Israel is engaged in a war it doesn't want and not of its making. A quiet Shabbat morning, also the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah where Jews celebrate finishing reading the Torah and then start to read it again, “In the Beginning”, was shattered by a mass invasion of Hamas terrorists, smashing through the concrete border wall, paragliding into Israel, before rampaging through a music festiv...

MirYam Institute Co-Founder Benjamin Anthony is joined by former Israeli Deputy National Security Advisor Chuck Freilich for an emergency briefing and analysis on the horrific attacks on Israel by Hamas.  Enjoy. Subscribe. Leave a Review.  The MirYam Institute. Israel's Future in Israel's Hands. Follow Chuck: https://www. ChuckFreilich.com Follow The MirYam Institute Twitter: https://bit...

“Israel Defense and Diplomacy Forum” (IDDF), Est. 2022 - A  Biweekly Podcast with Chuck Freilich and Benjamin Anthony Episode 36 of the Israel Defense and Diplomacy Forum (IDDF) – with Prof. Chuck Freilich, former Israeli Deputy National Security Advisor, and Benjamin Anthony, Co-Founder of the Miryam Institute.  Chuck and Benjamin begin by discussing the Oslo Accords. Chuck explains that Oslo was...

In this episode, Benjamin and Yaakov sat down to discuss a recent speech presented by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at the annual ICT conference at Reichman University in which he outlined four national priorities for the state of Israel - none of which were judicial reform.  Given Gallant's status as Defense Minister in a Likud led government, the two pondered whether or not Gallant's p...

“Israel Defense and Diplomacy Forum” (IDDF), Est. 2022 - A  Biweekly Podcast with Chuck Freilich and Benjamin Anthony Episode 35 of the Israel Defense and Diplomacy Forum (IDDF) – with Prof. Chuck Freilich, former Israeli Deputy National Security Advisor, and Benjamin Anthony, Co-Founder of The Miryam Institute.  In this episode, Chuck and Benjamin discuss the passing of former Director of the Mos...

In this episode, Benjamin Anthony sits down to talk with Former Deputy Head of Mossad, Naftali Granot to discuss the likelihood of a multi-front attack on The State of Israel. They also briefly touch on Iran's role in recent terror attacks against Israelis, and the recent diplomatic debacle between Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen & the Foreign Minister of Libya.  To read the recent op-...

Episode 34 of the Israel Defense and Diplomacy Forum (IDDF) – with Prof. Chuck Freilich, former Israeli Deputy National Security Advisor, and Benjamin Anthony, Co-Founder & CEO of the Miryam Institute.  In this episode, Chuck and Benjamin discuss the pros and cons of a possible US-Israeli defense treaty, a potential side product of the US-Israeli-Saudi normalization deal now under discussion....

In this episode Benjamin and Yaakov begin with the heavy topic of recent terror attacks in Judea & Samaria, the latest of which was the murder of a mother of three children near the city of Hebron. They discussed the broader phenomenon surrounding these attacks before moving on to discuss the mooted Saudi-Israel normalization agreements, sparring a little bit about the terms the Saudis are sai...

“Israel Defense and Diplomacy Forum” (IDDF), Est. 2022 - A  Biweekly Podcast with Chuck Freilich and Benjamin Anthony Episode 33 of the Israel Defense and Diplomacy Forum (IDDF) – with Prof. Chuck Freilich, former Israeli Deputy National Security Advisor, and Benjamin Anthony, Co-chair of the Miryam Institute.  In this episode, Chuck and Benjamin conduct an in-depth discussion of a possible Israel...

“Israel Defense and Diplomacy Forum” (IDDF), Est. 2022 - A  Biweekly Podcast with Chuck Freilich and Benjamin Anthony Episode 32 of the Israel Defense and Diplomacy Forum (IDDF) – with Prof. Chuck Freilich, former Israeli Deputy National Security Advisor, and Benjamin Anthony, Co-Founder of the Miryam Institute.  In this episode, Chuck and Benjamin continue their discussion of the ongoing crisis i...

In this episode of the briefing, Yaakov Lappin and I sat down to discuss the impact of the ongoing effort to bring about judicial reform, with a particular focus upon the increasing declarations by some IDF reservists of their refusal to carry out future military service and their decision to no longer obey the draft.  We also spoke about the impending speech by President Isaac Herzog to a joint s...

In June, 2023, The MirYam Institute brought close to fifty U.S. and Canadian Military Cadets to Poland and to Israel for the annual Israel Strategy & Policy Tour (I-SAP). All of the participants will go on to serve as officers in their respective militaries and to deploy throughout the world. After a three day tour of the Nazi Death Camps in Poland, the delegation traveled on for a twelve day...

Episode 31 of the Israel Defense and Diplomacy Forum (IDDF) – with Prof. Chuck Freilich, former Israeli Deputy National Security Advisor, and Benjamin Anthony, Co-Founder of the Miryam Institute.  In this episode, in which Benjamin succeeds Danny Ayalon as Chuck’s interlocutor, they begin by extending their deep appreciation to Danny for his participation to date. Danny is moving on to new and bet...

In June, 2023 The MirYam Institute brought close to fifty U.S. and Canadian Military Cadets to Poland and to Israel for the annual Israel Strategy & Policy Tour (I-SAP). All of the participants will go on to serve as officers in their respective militaries and to deploy throughout the world. After a three day tour of the Nazi Death Camps in Poland, the delegation traveled on for a twelve day t...

Former Head of Mossad, Yossi Cohen and Lt. Gen. (Ret.) H.R. McMaster, former National Security Advisor of The United States, headlined The Annual MirYam Institute International Security Briefing, 2023.  In front of a live Manhattan audience, during a particularly candid exchange, the two sharply disagreed on the policy of arming Ukraine. While both experts strongly condemned the actions of Vladimi...

In this episode of the briefing, I was joined by Yaakov Lappin to discuss the aftermath of Operation Shield and Arrow - both strategically and personally.  Yaakov described his feelings as a father to young children, particularly in the aftermath of a direct strike by Palestinian Islamic Jihad on his hometown of Rehovot in central Israel - a strike that killed an 87 year old woman and injured othe...