BICOM's Podcast

James Sorene and Calev Ben-Dor talk to Yohanan Plesner, from the Israel Democracy Institute, about Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempt to secure immunity from prosecution and restrict the powers of the Israeli Supreme Court. James and Calev also discuss the Palestinian boycott of the US peace plan and the ‘economic workshop’ in Bahrain on 25 June.

BICOM CEO James Sorene presents a special two part episode from Israel. In an exclusive interview James spoke to UK Ambassador David Quarrey during his final days in Israel. James also interviewed IDF spokesman Lt-Col Jonathan Conricus to assess the hostilities last week between Israel and Gaza.

In this week’s episode, James Sorene speaks to BICOM’s Senior Visiting Fellow Brig.-Gen. (Res.) Michael Herzog about the Trump administration’s Iran strategy, whether Israel will launch a ground operation in Gaza and what will  be in the US’s plan to restart Israeli-Palestinian talks.

In this week’s episode, BICOM CEO James Sorene is joined by Ha’aretz Security Analyst, Amos Harel to discuss the stand-off between Israel and the Palestinian Authority over their refusal to accept tax revenues. They also assess the situation in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.

In a special extended episode to mark our 50th episode, BICOM CEO James Sorene talks to Natan Sachs from the Brookings Institution, polling expert Dahlia Scheindlin and Times of Israel political analyst Haviv Rettig Gur to discuss what the voters did, whether Bibi will be granted immunity and if a US peace plan will ever be published.

In this week’s episode James Sorene talks to Nadav Eyal, Chief International Correspondent for Reshet News and Professor Avi Diskin from the Hebrew University to assess the impact of Israel’s election results. 

In this week’s episode Richard Pater and Calev Ben-Dor are joined by political consultant and pollster Simon Davies from Number 10 Strategies to analyse the latest polling coming out of Israel ahead of next week's elections. In addition, Calev and Richard discuss reports on the political negotiations between Hamas and Israel.

 

James Sorene, Calev Ben Dor and Richard Pater assess this week’s missile strikes from Gaza, the Israeli response, the likely riots tomorrow on the Gaza border and Bibi’s dilemma that he has no good options in response.

BICOM CEO James Sorene talks to Lahav Harkov, the Senior Contributing Editor at the Jerusalem Post, about Benny Gantz's Tuesday night TV interviews and the surging support for small right wing parties. 

James Sorene, Richard Pater and Calev Ben-Dor discuss the latest election news in Israel, including the Prime Minister’s row with Gal Gadot about the nation state law, why the Blue and White Party is declining in the polls and why Naftali Bennett said Benny Gantz is Hamas’s ‘wet dream’.