Facing Israel: Our Polarized Society and the Need to Talk to Each Other (Season 8 Episode 16)

About this episode

Shoshanna and Anne discuss the urgent societal issues facing Israel, including the Gaza conflict and the IDF draft.

Israel is in turmoil, divided on questions of how best to handle Gaza, how to answer the world, with its pointed fingers at Israel, and how best to resolve the IDF's need for manpower (and the Haredi avoidance of the draft). Shoshanna and Anne tackle these issues that seem urgent in Israeli society today - even when we know our discussion is limited in its ability to fix all that's wrong with the world today. Music: "Misery" by The Whips

People in this episode

Hosts: Shoshanna, Anne

Topics covered

• Israel
• polarization
• Gaza conflict
• IDF draft
• Haredi community
• societal issues
• communication

Keywords

• Israel
• Gaza
• IDF
• Haredi
• polarization
• society
• communication

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: IDF, Haredi

Places: Israel, Gaza

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