Einat Wilf: Fall of Iran an opportunity to uproot 'Palestinianism'
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🗓️ 14 March 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with Einat Wilf, a former MK, author and CEO of the newly formed Oz party.
Wilf describes the potential fall of the Iranian Islamic Republic's regime as a shift in the magnitude of the fall of the Soviet Union.
We discuss the seismic ripple effects on Gaza and the Palestinian Authority. Wilf proposes that this moment is a window of opportunity for Israel to end the ideology of "Palestinianism" -- the end to the Jewish state -- that could quickly shut again.
She talks through Israel's need to create firm civil borders of its control in the West Bank and to maintain military control of the remaining areas and have what she calls, "an active occupation."
And in the final portion of our conversation, we hear why Wilf formed her new party at this time and what it stands for.
And so this week, we ask Einat Wilf, what matters now.
What Matters Now podcasts are available for download on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode was produced by Gabriella Jacobs and edited by Ari Schlacht.
IMAGE: Motorbikes drive past a billboard depicting Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, handing the country’s flag to his son and successor Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, right, as the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini stands at left, in a square in downtown Tehran, Iran, March 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Times of Israel's What Matters Now. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm your host, Deputy Editor Amanda Borcheldan, here today in our Jerusalem studio with author, |
| 0:12.7 | former M.K. and head of the new O's party, Enat Ville. Thank you so much for joining me |
| 0:20.3 | today, Anath. Thank you. It's such a pleasure |
| 0:22.2 | finally getting together with you. I'll just say behind the scenes, we've been trying to get |
| 0:26.9 | together for years since the war broke out, of course, in Gaza on October 7, 2023. And in that |
| 0:34.1 | there are so many topics I could discuss with you. Your expertise is astounding in so many fields. |
| 0:40.7 | You've written several books, which is code for over eight, nine, ten books. |
| 0:45.6 | And today I want to focus, of course, on the war that is at hand. |
| 0:50.0 | There's so many aspects of this war that I want to drill down with you. |
| 0:54.1 | But one thing I actually floated an idea to my previous What Matters Now guest, Mika Goodman. |
| 1:00.4 | And I asked him, how do you think that this war will affect Gaza? |
| 1:05.3 | And he actually, he had an answer because Mika has an answer for everything. |
| 1:10.2 | But he was a little conflicted in his answer. |
| 1:13.5 | So I'd like to hear your thoughts, first of all, on this. |
| 1:16.0 | Yes. |
| 1:17.0 | So I compare it to the fall of the Soviet Union. |
| 1:23.9 | And its impact on the whole Palestinian issue and ideology. |
| 1:29.1 | Because I do believe that the fall of the Islamic Republic |
| 1:32.3 | will be on par, certainly in this region, |
| 1:36.9 | with the impact of the fall of the Soviet Union. |
| 1:39.9 | So if I kind of analyze what happened, |
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