Episode 206 | Budget, Draft Bill, and Judicial Reform: A Political Update
In this episode, Richard Pater speaks to Tal Shalev, political correspondent at Walla News, about the latest political developments in Israel. They discuss the internal dynamics within the coalition and their achievements in securing concessions in the recently passed budget. They also explore the government’s chances of passing a new Draft Bill reaffirming ultra-Orthodox exclusion […]
Episode 205 | Operation Shield and Arrow
In this podcast, Richard Pater, Director of BICOM speaks to Brigadier general (Res.) Assaf Orion, Senior Researcher at the INSS and Director of The Diane & Guilford Glazer Israel-China Policy Center. They discuss the recent conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), assess Operation Shield and Arrow’s success in degrading PIJ’s terror capabilities, explore […]
Episode 204 | Post Ramadan regional update
In this episode, Richard Pater speaks to Professor Efraim Inbar, President of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security. They discuss what the Ramadan period showed us about Israel’s current security challenges, the state of its deterrence, and the level of Iranian influence in the region. They also consider Israeli relations with Saudi Arabia, the […]
Episode 203 | Ehud Yaari
In this live podcast, Richard Pater, Director of BICOM speaks to Ehud Yaari, the veteran Middle East commentator for Israel’s Channel 12 News. They discussed the latest regional dynamics including Iran and Saudi Arabia’s recent positioning. Yaari also shares his view on the current situation in the West Bank and domestic Israeli politics. Ehud Yaari […]
Episode 202 | The Iran-Saudi deal and the Middle East
In this episode, Jack Omer-Jackaman speaks to Sir John Jenkins. Sir John was British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from June 2012 to January 2015. He previously served as the ambassador to Libya, Iraq, and Syria, and as the British Consul General in Jerusalem. They discuss the recent China-brokered normalisation deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia, its […]
Episode 201 | Understanding Hezbollah
In this episode, Richard Pater speaks to Sarit Zehavi, a Lt. Col. in the IDF reserves who specialises in intelligence and holds an MA in Middle East Studies from Ben-Gurion University. She is the founder and CEO of ALMA, an organisation specialising in research and analysis of Israel’s security challenges on the northern border. In […]
Episode 200 | Violence in the West Bank
In this episode, BICOM Director Richard Pater talks to Dr Michael Milshtein, an expert on the Palestinian Arena and the Head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel-Aviv University. He serves as a senior analyst at the Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS) at […]
Episode 199 | The State of Iran
In this episode, Richard Pater speaks to Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) where he focuses on Iranian security and political issues. They discuss the current state of Iran’s nuclear programme, Iran’s links with Russia, and where the US and the EU stand on Iran. Leveraging his […]
Episode 198 | Understanding Judicial Reform
In this episode, Jack Omer-Jackman, Research Associate at BICOM speaks to Professor Amichai Cohen senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. They explore details of the proposed reforms, how Israel’s system compares internationally and what to expect next. Cohen also comments on the distinction between populist and conservative potential reforms, and on the relationship between […]
Episode 197 | What does Israel’s political future look like?
In this episode, Jack Omer-Jackaman, BICOM Research Associate speaks to Professor Jonathan Rynhold, head of the department of Political Studies at Bar Ilan University. Rynhold’s research focuses on US-Israeli relations, Israeli foreign policy and the role of political culture in foreign policy. They discuss the internal dynamics of the coalition government, the state of proposed […]