And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your

host, David Axelrod.

Yulana Diane is one of the great journalists in the world, feared and respected by officials

throughout Israel, watched and listened to by people throughout the country for her probing

and decisive reports on Israeli television and radio.

Yulana Diane was a fellow at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics recently,

and we sat down to talk about the current state of Israeli politics and Israel's place

in the world.

Yulana, today you're one of the most influential journalists in Israel, but you were born in

Argentina and you were raised in your first years in Argentina.

Tell me about that.

Tell me about your family and your, their history and your journey to Israel.

First of all, I, oddly enough, don't remember anything of my childhood in Argentina.

Perhaps it's not that odd, because when you come to Israel at the age of six, especially

Israel at the beginning of the 70s, you want to become an Israeli so badly, so fast, so

totally that I forgot everything about being from somewhere else.

I sort of forgive the expression I raped the South American accent, which is a beautiful

accent, but I didn't want to sound like someone who came from somewhere else.

And I took away those, you know, those purled earrings that they give you when you're five

and you live in what we call in the Galut in the exile.

And I wanted so badly to become an Israeli.

But my parents, it's an interesting story because when you take my family's story and I bet

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