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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 426

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing and What Matters Now podcasts and heads up The Times of Israel's Jewish World and Archaeology coverage.
Israeli soldiers from the Netzah Yehuda Battalion patrol near the Israeli-Gaza border, October 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 26, 2024, 9:06 am
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Is it wise for US to blacklist IDF unit?
ToI’s senior analyst discusses the genesis of Netzah Yehuda, an IDF ‘social work project’ for disenfranchised religious men that is accused of human rights abuses in the West Bank
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Mideast analyst Avi Issacharoff, one of the co-creators of the Israeli TV drama 'Fauda,' (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)
April 19, 2024, 9:47 am
What Matters Now to Mideast analyst Avi Issacharoff: Iran can have nukes in 6 months
Seasoned journalist and ‘Fauda’ co-creator spells out how nuclear Iran must be treated as Israel’s prime existential threat, even as the Jewish state fights on many fronts
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
David Horovitz, editor, The Times of Israel. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Tomes of Israel)
April 12, 2024, 9:01 am
What Matters Now to David Horovitz: The conflicts of war coverage
Six months on, The Times of Israel’s founding editor weighs in on the challenges confronting Jerusalem-based news site bent on providing factual, fair and fast coverage
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Philosopher and public intellectual Dr. Micah Goodman. (Yonit Schiller)
April 5, 2024, 9:05 am
What Matters Now to Micah Goodman: This is a war of independence for Israelis and Gazans
After six months, the Jewish state is faced with only bad choices, but leaving Hamas in power in the Gaza Strip would be suicidal for both Israelis and Gazans, says the author
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Hayim Katsman, left, and his mother Hannah Wacholder Katsman, in Tel Aviv in 2018. (Tamar Abramson)
March 29, 2024, 9:11 am
What Matters Now to mourning mother Hannah Wacholder Katsman: Personal & national grief
On October 7, Hayim Katsman was killed by terrorists from Gaza at Kibbutz Holit as he shielded a neighbor with his body. Knowing her son is a hero doesn’t help, says his mother
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a gathering of Jewish leaders at the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem, February 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
March 22, 2024, 9:03 am
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Is Netanyahu an obstacle to victory?
ToI’s senior analyst on how the world worries Netanyahu won’t bring peace; Israelis worry he won’t win the war
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
Yahya Sinwar, the Gaza Strip chief of the Palestinian Hamas terror group, greets supporters as he arrives at a rally marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day, April 14, 2023. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)
March 15, 2024, 9:14 am
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Hamas starves Gazans as a war tactic
As humanitarian aid efforts are ramped up via land, air and sea, the IDF must decide how many of its soldiers to divert to protecting the convoys – while becoming targets themselves
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
Demonstrators rally during a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel rally outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, March 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
March 8, 2024, 8:57 am
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Campus antisemitism makes new Zionists
Just back from a speaking tour at US colleges, ToI’s senior analyst describes increased ostracism of Jewish students on campus – and an unexpected rebound effect
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur
ToI senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur (Courtesy)
March 1, 2024, 10:04 am
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Haredim have to defend Israel, too
ToI’s senior analyst weighs in on the increasingly heavy burden shouldered by secular and religious-Zionist Israel
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Former MK Ksenia Svetlova, an expert on the Middle East and Russia. (courtesy)
February 23, 2024, 8:58 am
What Matters Now to Ksenia Svetlova: Russia’s new position on the global ‘Risk’ board
Two years since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the former MK – an expert on her native Russia and the Middle East – weighs in on the Red Empire’s growing reach
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Times of Israel's senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur (left) and deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan record a podcast in ToI's Jerusalem office, January 2024. (Eli Katzoff)
February 16, 2024, 9:17 am
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: UNRWA’s problem isn’t the terrorists in its ranks
UN agency keeps Palestinians as eternal ‘refugees’ – even if they have citizenship. As staff collaboration with Hamas surfaces, Rettig Gur argues this is not the org’s biggest evil
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
ToI senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur (Courtesy)
February 9, 2024, 8:58 am
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Clashing visions of victory
What does winning the Israel-Hamas war look like, not only for those fighting in Gaza, but also for the Palestinian Authority, the United States and Arab states in the region?
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Brody in The Times of Israel's Jerusalem office, February 1, 2023. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
February 2, 2024, 8:58 am
What Matters Now to author Shlomo Brody: Jewish ethics and the Israel-Hamas War
When the imperative of self-defense brushes up against terrorists using innocent civilians as hostages and human shields, what should the most moral army in the world do?
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Author Yossi Klein Halevi. (Shalom Hartman Institute)
January 26, 2024, 9:00 am
What Matters Now to Yossi Klein Halevi: 5 big questions about the war
Noted author weighs in on the tough issues facing Israel and the Jewish people now – and how to conceive of the foreseeable future
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
ToI senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur (Courtesy)
January 19, 2024, 8:54 am
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: What Israelis think about the suffering in Gaza
ToI’s senior analyst joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan in the Jerusalem office for a difficult conversation about Israelis’ awareness of the humanitarian crisis spawned by Hamas’s war
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
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