A conversation with Yonit Levi & Jonathan Freedland

Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

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Society, October 7, Hamas, War, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Israel, News Commentary, News, Politics, Elections, Palestine, Dan Senor, Government

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🗓️ 18 November 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this episode -- which we recorded just after the historic rally in Washington, DC and as we approached the sixth Shabbat since October 7th -- I have a wide-ranging conversation with Yoni Levi in Tel Aviv and Jonathan Freedland in London. Yonit and Jonathan are co-hosts of the popular podcast, UnHoly, which you can find here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unholy-two-jews-on-the-news/id1548441108 This episode is a sharecast, in which we are dropping the conversation in each of our respective podcast feeds ("Call Me Back" & "UnHoly"). The episode begins with Yonit and Jonathan interviewing me, and then I interview them at the end. It's a spirited discussion. Yonit Levi has been anchoring television news broadcasts in Israel for over 20 years. She is the lead anchor of Israel’s top primetime news programme on Channel 2, Israel’s highest rated TV channel. Throughout her career, Yonit has interviewed numerous world leaders, including Presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. Jonathan Freedland is a columnist for the Guardian newspaper and the host of the Guardian's Politics Weekly America podcast. He also presents BBC Radio 4's The Long View and is the author of the award-winning "The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World," along with several thrillers under the pseudonym Sam Bourne.

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0:00.0	Israel and the United States are going to have to deal with Iran in a much different way
0:05.2	than they have been dealing with Iran, which makes the relationship with the United States.
0:09.8	It was already important.
0:12.3	I think some Israeli leaders were a little loose with the
0:15.6	importance of that relationship in recent years. That is over. The US-Israel
0:21.4	relationship is everything and the US and Israel have to be so
0:26.6	synced up but it really feels to me like it's the US and Israel right now
0:31.4	versus the world in ways that I've never seen before. On this 6th Chabat since the October 7th massacre, we are doing something a little different on our
0:54.4	podcast. We are doing a share cast, which is where I have a conversation with hosts of
0:59.8	another podcast and we share that conversation on their feed and hours.
1:06.0	That conversation is with Yonit Levy and Jonathan Friedland.
1:11.1	They are the co-hosts of the unholy podcast.
1:15.0	I'll put just a little bit of background on Yonit and Jonathan before I explain what we did in this conversation and why it was so important for me to do.
1:22.0	Yonit Levy is a fixture in Israeli journalism.
1:26.0	She lives in Tel Aviv.
1:27.0	She's been anchoring television news broadcasts in Israel for over 20 years.
1:32.0	She's the lead anchor of Israel's top prime time
1:34.8	news program on channel 2, which is Israel's highest rated television station.
1:39.9	She's interviewed leaders from around the world, including a number of current and former U.S. Presidents,
1:47.0	President Biden, President Obama, President George W. Bush, President Clinton, and former Secretary
1:52.1	of State Hillary Clinton, and she's traveled all over the
1:54.9	world including some hot spots in the Middle East covering wars natural
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