Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleWelcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with Yossi Klein Halevi.
This week, we speak with Hartman Institute senior fellow, author and thinker Yossi Klein Halevi from his Jerusalem home overlooking the back of the Mount Herzl National Military Cemetery.
With that backdrop, we delve into a recently published Klein Halevi essay, “Our season of reckoning: Israel’s moral crossroads in Gaza,” which he said was the hardest piece he’s ever written — and the one that has received the most response.
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We learn why Klein Halevi felt it important to chart this moment of ethical dilemmas, as it is unlike any other the IDF and the nation has faced.
While Klein Halevi may not have the answers to the multitude of questions about the war and the way it is being conducted, he believes the struggle and questioning are imperative, for both Israelis and Diaspora Jews.
And so this week, we ask Yossi Klein Halevi, what matters now?
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