Podcasts

The first episode of a special visual security podcast, in collaboration with the Institute for National Security Studies (@INSSisrael) Professor Manuel Trajtenberg joins Nicole Zedek

In today’s program INSS researcher Adi Kantor sits down with INSS Executive Director, Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg, one of the world’s leading experts in economy and economic growth. Together they discuss the current worrying developments in the Israeli economy, in light of recent steps towards a Judicial Overhaul . To what extent is the Israeli economy already damaged by the reform? What are the dangers ahead and how can they affect the everyday life of citizens in Israel?? How are the relations between the economy and Israel’s national security affected by the current situation? How do international economic actors act in light of these developments? and what can be a ‘way out strategy’- is the situation still reversible?

INSS Executive Director Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg and Col. (res.) Adv. Pnina Sharvit Baruch deliberate the implications of the revocation of the reasonableness standard in judicial decisions. What is the significance of yesterday’s Knesset legislation? Is this indeed “the end of democracy”? And what does the near future look like – in the security, economic, political, social and judicial realms? What are the main challenges facing Israel? And are they joined by emerging opportunities?

INSS hosted Ambassador Korniychuk this week at the Institute. Listen to his conversation with INSS Executive Director Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg on the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Conversation between Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg, Executive Director, INSS and H.E. Thomas R. Nides, United States Ambassador to Israel

Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg, Executive Director of INSS, analyzes the issues that headed the Institute’s agenda this past year and the challenges for the coming year. Wherein lie new opportunities for Israel, and what troubling signals have emerged along with signs of hope? How does INSS address the challenges confronting Israel’s new government, and what does it seek to accomplish in its research? What is the importance of “soft power” in this regard, and what lessons were learned during Operation Guardian of the Walls? What does the ongoing pandemic teach us about living alongside COVID-19 and other disruptions to routine life, such as those related to climate change?