Podcasts

Mor Yahalom, INSS Government Relations Manager and research assistant to Lt. Gen. (ret.) Gadi Eisenkot, and Sara Greenberg, former advisor to the Prime Minister for Foreign Relations, discuss promoting aliyah to Israel in a post-Covid-19 world. How did the coronavirus affect the Jewish diaspora? What opportunities does this crisis present to the State of Israel with regard to aliyah? And to what extent are these opportunities connected to Israel’s success in managing the crisis?

INSS Deputy Director Itai Brun hosts a special podcast following the update of the Institute’s strategic assessment for 2020, in the wake of both the coronavirus pandemic and the establishment of Israel’s new government after more than a year of political deadlock. INSS Managing Director Udi Dekel, together with INSS researchers Sima Shine, Assaf Orion, Orna Mizrahi, Meir Elran, Sarah Feuer, and Carmit Valensi provide a comprehensive review on the international system and the Middle East, which have been rocked by the virus, and will offer their recommendations to the new government.

As corona continues to dominate the headlines in Israel, INSS Deputy Director for Research Brig. Gen (ret.) Itai Brun talks with Dr. Sarah Feuer about the impact of the pandemic across the Middle East and the implications for Israel. How are individual states across the region coping with the outbreak? What regional trends are emerging as a result of the virus? And what potential scenarios could Israel encounter as corona leaves its mark on the Middle East?

INSS research associate Adi Kantor and Dr. Henning Lahmann, senior researcher at the Digital Society Institute at the ESMT Berlin, analyze how Germany, the leading member of the European Union, is coping with the current coronavirus crisis. How has the pandemic affected Germany’s economy and health system? How is Germany balancing the need to maintain public health while protecting individual rights to privacy, freedom of speech, and movement? How can one explain the relatively low mortality rate in Germany? What will the social and political implications of the crisis be – are anti-migrant and extreme political views in the German discourse expected to rise? These and related issues are addressed here.

INSS Research Fellow Dr. Michal Hatuel-Radoshitzky and INSS Senior Research Fellow Dr. Yehuda Ben Meir discuss the coronavirus and Israel: What is the strategy that has guided Israel in dealing with the pandemic, and how does it play into the political system’s instability at this time? Has Israel’s democracy been affected? And finally, in an attempt to look for the silver lining: three positive elements that have emerged from the current difficult situation.