A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

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News, Yonit Levi, Israel, Israel Podcast, Jonathan Freedland, Middle East, Jewish, Religion & Spirituality, Jews, Society & Culture

4.7 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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We are delighted to have Prof. Yuval Noah Harari as our special guest this week. Right before he leaves for a two month meditation retreat, Yuval gets together with Yonit and Jonathan for a conversation on pandemics, climate change, corporations vs. governments, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, trans rights and shares some interesting Bar Mitzvah experiences. Yuval's new book Sapiens: A graphic history is available now.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Yonite Levi of Channel 12 in Tel Aviv.
0:14.2	And I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian in London.
0:17.4	And we are unholy, two Jews on the News from Keshet podcasts.
0:21.6	How are you doing your need?
0:22.6	I am myself extremely excited because we have a very special guest on the podcast today
0:28.6	in the form of Yuval Noah Harari, and so my excitement is all about that, but how are you doing?
0:34.6	And being the Englishman that you are, your totally excited tone sounds exactly like your regular tone, Jonathan. But you are indeed. I'm sure you're very,
0:43.2	excited, and so am I. I should have said I'm Yoni Levy from the summary unclouded, rainless
0:49.7	Tel Aviv. Yesterday, I was thinking of you. I looked back after, like, right at the end of the news, and I was looking at our huge video wall projecting the five-day forecast in November, and it's all in hues of orange and red, and it's like 27 degrees Celsius outside, like 80 degrees Fahrenheit to our American listeners. And I was thinking of you. And I wanted to sit here,
1:12.0	mocking you with my t-shirt that says, I love London on it. Yeah, well, you could do that because
1:16.4	obviously it is, it's actually not terribly cold here. It's really mild. But in the week of COP 26,
1:21.0	it's not such a brag, is it? Yeah, I know. I know. Like, boiling hot in November. Look, the rational part of my brain is indeed saying maybe it's not a good thing that the heat waves that we used to experience in November every five or six years are now every two to three years.
1:34.6	And I know that it's probably not great that the most volatile region in the world is actually warming up.
1:41.9	But the fun part of my brain is saying, let's go to the beach.
1:44.9	It's November.
1:46.4	I'm selling you on coming to Telvi.
1:48.0	There's this underlining thing here in our podcast
1:50.7	where I'm trying to convince you to come here.
1:53.8	And you are doing so effectively, and I will be there.
1:57.6	Let us move with my excitement,
2:00.6	which as you can tell in my unaltered voice, is all about
2:04.8	our special guest today because he is, I think it's fair to say that he is the world's leading
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