TOI talks: The dark underbelly of the start-up nation
On this week’s episode: A soldier facing a murder charge for shooting an unarmed attacker; what Brussels can learn from terrorism in Israel; Trump at AIPAC and Sanders in the cold; and the international binary options scam run from Tel Aviv
Raoul Wootliff is a former Times of Israel political correspondent and Daily Briefing podcast producer.
The panel this week discusses the controversial video footage showing an IDF soldier shooting an unarmed Palestinian attacker in the head, after the assailant stabbed another soldier.
The deadly bombings in Brussels raise fears of a changing reality in Europe. The panel asks what the Continent can learn from Israel’s experience of regular terror attacks.
Plus, after addresses at the AIPAC pro-Israel policy conference from nearly all the major presidential candidates, the panel assesses the seemingly warm welcome given to Republican presidential front-funner Donald Trump and the speech that Jewish Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders chose not to give to the conference.
Also on this week’s podcast…
Reporter’s notebook
Times of Israel reporter Simona Weinglass talks about the challenges involved in writing her recent investigative report uncovering a vast binary options scam run from Tel Aviv.
Read: The wolves of Tel Aviv: Israel’s vast, amoral binary options scam exposed
On this week’s panel:
Founding editor David Horovitz
Ops and blogs editor Miriam Herschlag
Arab affairs correspondent Dov Lieber
Host and producer Raoul Wootliff
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