Joining me today is the president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem, the director of

the John Templeton Foundation's project in Jewish philosophical theology and the author

of several books including The Virtue of Nationalism, Yoram Huzoni, welcome to the Ruben

Report.

Thanks for having me.

It's great to be here.

I am glad to have you here because as I said to you in the green room just a moment ago,

you're one of about 12 people that I see on Twitter that doesn't completely enrage

me. You actually make a little bit of sense on that Twitter machine.

That's the highest compliment I can possibly pay any.

That's a pretty serious compliment and I don't know how many people would agree with

you but I'm glad finally to meet with that background.

That's wonderful.

Thank you.

Yeah.

So before we get into the book and it's called The Virtue of Nationalism and just even

just saying the word nationalism sort of sets bells off for a lot of people.

So we're going to quantify and qualify what that word actually means.

You were born in Israel.

You live in Jerusalem now.

Tell me a little bit about your background.

In between being born in Israel and living in Jerusalem, actually, you can hear that my

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