BICOM's Podcast

Episode 96 | Coronavirus and Constitutional Crisis

Richard Pater talks to former Israeli Justice Minister Dan Meridor about Israel’s constitutional crisis, coalition talks, the postponement of Benjamin Netanyahu’s criminal trial and Israel's response to the coronavirus.

Episode 95 | Can Gantz form a minority government?

James Sorene interviews Dr. Assaf Shapira from the Israel Democracy Institute to discuss defections, minority Governments and a new law to ban an indicted MK from forming a Government.

Episode 94 | David Ben Gurion: A State at Any Cost

James Sorene interviews Tom Segev, author of the monumental new biography of David Ben-Gurion, A State At Any Cost. 

Episode 93 | No one won, again

James Sorene interviews pollster and political analyst Dahlia Scheindlin and Richard Pater interviews Tal Shalev from Walla News in a two-part evaluation of Israel’s third election.

Episode 92 | Ballots and rockets

Richard Pater talks to Eli Hazan, the Likud’s Foreign Affairs Director to discuss the latest polls, the Trump plan and rockets from Gaza. Richard also spoke to Blue and White MK Izhar Shay to talk about the party’s campaign and its plan for after the election.

Episode 91 | Election endgame

Richard Pater talks to Likud pollster Rafi Smith about how Israeli parties are shaping up as they enter the final week of the campaign. 

Episode 90 | We need to talk about the Israeli economy

Richard Pater talks to Professor Avi Weiss about the big issue being ignored in the Israeli election campaign – Israel’s increasing budget deficit and the required cuts to public spending. 

 

 

Episode 89 | Red Sea Spies

In an exclusive interview for the BICOM Podcast, Raffi Berg, author of Red Sea Spies, tells the remarkable story of the Mossad-run diving resort in Sudan that evacuated thousands of Ethiopian Jews from Sudanese refugee camps and brought them to Israel.

Episode 88 | Will a third election break the deadlock?

James Sorene talks to polling expert Dahlia Scheindlin for a deep dive on Israel’s 2nd of March election: has anything changed since the last election?  

Episode 87 | Was the US plan a victory for Netanyahu?

James Sorene talks to journalist Anshel Pfeffer to assess whether the US plan will provide a boost for Netanyahu’s election campaign or opens an unintended can of worms.