The JPost Podcast

Lahav Harkov and Yaakov Katz discuss the Omicronvariant and Israel‘s efforts to stop its spread.

In a special edition of the Jerusalem Post Podcast - Health & Wellness Edition, Senior Health Analyst Maayan Hoffman talks with Prof. Cyrille Cohen, head of the Immunology Lab at Bar-Ilan University, explains what is concerning health experts. The burning question: How did the world get a COVID variant with more than 50 mutations, including over 30 on the virus’ spike protein? According to Coh...

Is terrorism on the rise in Israel? This is a question that Diplomatic Correspondent Lahav Harkov and Editor-in-chief Yaakov Katz tackle on this week’s Jerusalem Post Podcast. They reflect on the recent murder by a Hamas terrorist of a young South African immigrant right outside the Western Wall plaza. “It was a real tragedy, and it raises some questions, like is terrorism on the rise in Jerusalem...

This week on The Jerusalem Post Podcast, Editor-in-Chief Yaakov Katz and Diplomatic Correspondent Lahav Harkov take a moment to discuss the shifting sands in the Middle East as Israeli generals have recently been photographed chatting alongside their Arab counterparts - scenes typically described as a rarity within the geopolitical landscape. While the details of their conversations are left up to...

In this week's edition of The Jerusalem Post Health & Wellness podcast, Senior Health Analyst Maayan Hoffman and Health Correspondent Rossella Tercatin gather 'round the mics to take on the latest coronavirus news from Israel and beyond. The Jerusalem Post got access to new data on the country's Brilife vaccine and it is looking very promising. The duo breaks down how the Israeli vaccine is ma...

This week on The Jerusalem Post Podcast, Editor-in-Chief Yaakov Katz and Diplomatic Correspondent Lahav Harkov talk about the State Budget. The team discusses the highlights of the budget and how ministries across the state now have more money to do the things that they are supposed to. Later on in the episode, Katz and Harkov talk with Jonathan Schanzer, senior vice president for research at the...

Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Yaakov Katz and Diplomatic Correspondent Lahav Harkov put on their climatology hat, following Harkov's trip to Glasgow where she took part in the international COP26 climate conference, alongside Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. The duo breakdown Israel's role in combatting climate change, as well as the technologies and renewable energy sources Israel is currently fo...

In this next edition of the Jerusalem Post Health & Wellness podcast, Senior Health Analyst Maayan Hoffman and Health Correspondent Rossella Tercatin tackle travel once again. Israel rolled out new travel rules and there is a lot of chaos and confusion and tourists aim to enter the country. They celebrate the decreasing number of COVID cases in Israel, but take a detailed look at who actually...

Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Yaakov Katz and Diplomatic Correspondent Lahav Harkov sit down this week to discuss the upcoming international 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and two other minutes will attend. In the build-up to the conference, Katz and Harkov take a moment to reflect on the importance of discussing climate change a...

Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Yaakov Katz and Diplomatic Correspondent Lahav Harkov take a moment to reflect this week on the events of The Jerusalem Post's 10th Annual Conference that took place just last week. In reflection, an interesting discussion arises surrounding the parallels between the effectiveness of a politician and their ability, or inability, to speak English, after Interior Minis...

The Jerusalem Post's Head of Strategy and Senior Health Analyst Maayan Hoffman together with Health and Archeology Correspondent Rossella Tercatin are back again this week for another edition of The Jerusalem Post Health and Wellness Podcast. In this week's edition, the duo dive into the state of the Delta variant as Israeli health officials believe that the country is wrapping up its fourth wave....

The Jerusalem Post held its 10th Annual Conference on Tuesday with around 500 public figures, diplomats, investors, entrepreneurs from the country and aborad. On this week's edition of The Jerusalem Post Podcast, the Post's Editor-in-Chief Yaakov Katz and Diplomatic Correspondent Lahav Harkov break down all the highlights, takeaways and some of the behind-the-scenes action that took place during t...

Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Yaakov Katz and Diplomatic Correspondent Lahav Harkov sit down this week to discuss the latest news around Israel in the Jewish world on this week's edition of The Jerusalem Post Podcast. On this week's episode, Katz and Harkov discuss the bombshell Prime Minister Naftali Bennett dropped on the Knesset floor earlier this week, claiming that the Mossad carried out an...

Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Yaakov Katz and Diplomatic Correspondent Lahav Harkov sit down this week for a Sukkot edition of The Jerusalem Post Podcast. While Israelis and Jews across the world are celebrating the Sukkot holiday, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is preparing for his first-ever appearance in front of the UN General Assembly. Join Katz and Harkov this week as they discuss what they...

Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Yaakov Katz and Diplomatic Correspondent Lahav Harkov sit down this week for a Yom Kippur edition of The Jerusalem Post Podcast. As Israelis and Jews across the world prepare for the day-long fast to atone and repent for their sins of the year, Katz and Harkov discuss apologies in Israeli politics - or lack thereof - and the different ways Israel and its politicians...

Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Yaakov Katz and Diplomatic Correspondent Lahav Harkov sit down this week for a New Year's edition of The Jerusalem Post Podcast. Families around Israel are preparing for Rosh Hashanah. They speak to Religious Affairs Correspondent Jeremy Sharon to discuss how the coronavirus pandemic has shaped religious life in Israel and how religious sects in Israel are coping wit...

Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Yaakov Katz and Diplomatic Correspondent Lahav Harkov discuss the first meeting between Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and US President Joe Biden. Harkov is on the ground in Washington. Later in the episode, Katz sits down with Israel's former ambassador to the United States Michael Oren to discuss the meeting, too. They talk about what it means for both Israel and t...

Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Yaakov Katz and Diplomatic Correspondent Lahav Harkov sit down with Nazi hunter Ephraim Zuroff to discuss Poland's new anti-restitution law that sets limits on the ability of Jews to recover property seized by Nazi German occupiers and retained by post-war communist rulers. They discussed what it means with regard to the how the events of the Holocaust are projected...

In this week's episode:   A year after US president Donald Trump tweeted the announcement that Israel and the United Arab Emirates were making peace and establishing diplomatic relations, former assistant to the president and special representative for international negotiations Avi Berkowitz looks back with satisfaction of a job well done.   “I’m really, really proud of the Abraham Accords and th...

Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Yaakov Katz and Diplomatic Correspondent Lahav Harkov sit down for a discussion on all things coronavirus, Judaism and the Olympics, and how they interconnect in Israeli society as Israel stares down the barrel of a third lockdown amid the ongoing 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. What you'll get: Israeli artistic gymnast Artem Dolgopyat's gold medal routine at the Toky...

In this week's episode we talk: > Olympics > Bennett-Biden relations > Iran > and more!   Photo credit: Niv Beili as seen on jpost.com

In this week's episode, diplomatic correspondent Lahav Harkov talks: >Temple Mount > Ben & Jerry's ice cream > Cannes Film Festival > Cybersecurity and the NSO's Pegasus product   Photo credit: REUTERS, as seen on jpost.com

In this special episode in honor of the Tisha B'Av (the Ninth of Av), Lahav Harkov discusses the demolition of a Palestinian home against US wishes; a flurry of meeting between Jordanian and Israeli officials; and the meaning of the Temple Mount in honor of the Jewish day of mourning. Special guests: Tovah Lazaroff, Deputy Managing Editor of the Jerusalem Post Ofir Dayan, head of Students for the...

This week on The Jerusalem Post podcast: Is coronavirus back in Israel? Can the country expect new restrictions? What's happening at the airport? Yaakov Katz and Lahav Harkov talk to coronavirus analyst Maayan Hoffman and health reporter Rossella Tercatin. Plus: An in-depth interview with former deputy commander of the Israel Air Force Amos Yadlin on Israel's full-court diplomatic press on the Uni...

Israel has a narrow window to try and influence the United States before it returns to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, Shaul Chorev, former director of Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission, has told The Jerusalem Post.  The nuclear talks in Vienna, he said, have “paused” for two weeks and that is a window that Israel needs to try and use to make its case in Washington.  Speaking to the Post’s weekly...