The Defense and Tech Podcast

Former NSA Director and US Cyber Command chief Admiral Mike Rogers warns that the Iran ceasefire has resolved none of the underlying threats — missiles, proxies, or the nuclear program — and that Iran's Revolutionary Guard is now more powerful and more aggressive than before the conflict began. Admiral Rogers, who led both the NSA and US Cyber Command as a four-star Navy admiral before moving to t...

Hilla Haddad Chmelnik certified the Iron Dome for combat, led Israel's national innovation policy, and now aims to make cargo delivery to orbit as routine as a courier shipment, at a few hundred dollars per kilo. In this wide-ranging conversation, Chmelnik reveals that the Iron Dome was built on what we now call machine learning long before the term existed, and that she would not redesign a singl...

Iran has struck 37 commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, and ships are now going dark at a rate 600% higher than before. Windward CEO Ami Daniel, who nearly died when Hezbollah hit his Navy ship in 2006, explains what's really happening at sea.

In the latest Defense and Tech by the Jerusalem Post podcast, host Anna Ahronheim sits down with Ghil Hardy, VP of Business Development at Cando and the ROM360 initiative. Cando, whose tagline is "You dream it, we drone it," delivers a 360-degree turnkey solution combining  products , services, and AI analytics, built by founders who include former  IDF  leaders who helped establish Israel's UAV u...

Host Anna Ahronheim sits down with Tomer Malchi, founder and CEO of ASIO Technologies, whose Orion handheld system has been in the hands of IDF troops for nearly a decade, to unpack the rapid transformation of ground warfare. From GPS spoofing during the Iran campaign, to "ground dominance" as a new operational doctrine, to the uncomfortable truth that "a nice chunk" of Israeli combat casualties h...

This Defense & Tech episode features an in-depth conversation with Menahem Landau, a defense tech expert and managing partner at Coverlet Ventures. He discusses the evolving landscape of Israeli defense technology, particularly drones, and how innovation is shaping military strategies in conflicts such as the war in Ukraine and tensions in the Middle East. Landau also explores the growing coll...

What was India doing just before the Iran war began, and why does it matter more than you think? In this episode of the Defense and Tech podcast, host Anna Ahronheim sits down with Dr. Lauren Dagan Amoss to unpack one of the most overlooked dimensions of the conflict: India’s strategic position between Israel, Iran, and the Gulf. Dr. Dagan Amoss explains how India balances competing interests, fro...

In this special episode of the Defense and Tech podcast, host Anna Ahronheim sits down with journalist, author and analyst Yaakov Katz to discuss the ongoing war with Iran and the dramatic evolution of military technology. They examine how Israel and the United States are using AI, intelligence fusion and faster sensor-to-shooter cycles on today’s battlefield, and what that means for target genera...

Retired Maj Gen Tal Kelman, a former Israel Air Force pilot and head of the IDF Strategic Planning and Cooperation Directorate, warned that the Middle East is undergoing a fundamental realignment following the October 7 war, with risks and opportunities that the public has yet to fully grasp. Speaking on the Jerusalem Post Defense and Tech podcast, Kelman compared the region to a house of cards th...

Israel’s defense technology ecosystem risks prioritizing flashy demonstrations over deployable battlefield capabilities unless startups adopt a broader, system level approach, Col. (res.) Merav Davidovits said in an interview on The Jerusalem Post’s Defense & Tech podcast. Davidovits, a former senior officer with 25 years of experience in elite Israel Air Force units who now works in venture c...

An Israeli cybersecurity company has shed new light on how artificial intelligence is reshaping both cyber defense and cyber espionage, following its discovery of a sophisticated AI-driven spy campaign targeting Russian defense technology firms. Speaking on the Defense and Tech podcast, Itai Tevet, CEO of Tel Aviv-based Intezer, described how the company uncovered a campaign that used AI-generated...

From the battlefield to the boardroom, Israel’s defense innovation ecosystem is undergoing a fundamental shift. In this episode of Defense & Tech by The Jerusalem Post, host Anna Aharon-Haim speaks with Alon Lifshitz, partner and founder of Aurelius Capital, about how October 7 reshaped Israel’s defense tech landscape, accelerated military adoption of AI, and opened unprecedented opportunities...

Col. (Res.) Ryan Gity, who helped develop Iron Dome and shaped Israel's national AI strategy, reveals how adversaries can plant "zero-day triggers" in open-source AI models used by militaries worldwide—including the IDF and U.S. government. In this wide-ranging conversation, Gity explains why "AI is the next nuclear arms race" and shares a striking anecdote from a Geneva ethics conference where a...

Israel has flown drones for 50 years, but the battlefield is changing fast. On this episode of The Jerusalem Post’s Defense and Tech Podcast, host Anna Ahronheim sits down with Alon Unger, founder and chairman of UVID, one of the world’s leading UAV conferences, to break down the future of unmanned warfare and the race for drone dominance. Unger explains why engineers still underestimate the human...

Welcome to the second episode of The Defense and Tech Podcast, where host Anna Ahronheim sits down with Dr. Lauren Dagan Amoss, a researcher at the Begin Sadat Center and a member of Forum Dvora. At this crucial moment in diplomatic history, strengthening ties between Israel and international partners has never been so important. This episode was recorded just days after a deadly bombing in the In...

In the first episode of The Defense and Tech Podcast, host Anna Ahronheim sits down with Lt. Col. (Ret.) Sarit Zehavi, founder and CEO of ALMA Research Center, to examine Israel's northern security landscape in the aftermath of the war with Hezbollah. Sarit breaks down how Iran has doubled down on its support for Hezbollah despite the proxy's devastating losses, including increased boots on the gr...