Post Corona Has Arrived - And This Is What It Sounds Like

Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

Ark Media

Politics, Hamas, Society, News, War, Israel, News Commentary, October 7, Geopolitics, Palestine, Government

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🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Today we’re doing something… different. After 15 months of avoiding business travel, I boarded a plane to attend meetings in Israel. When I landed, it felt more like I boarded a DeLorean and time-traveled ahead to the era of Post Corona - a land far, far away. WIth 85% of Israelis, 16 and older, inoculated, and with hospitals emptying out, it was clear that as far as Israelis are concerned - the pandemic is now just another chapter in history. Life in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem felt like a movie trailer for the rest of the world - coming soon to a theater near you. I wanted to capture this intangible energy and bring it to your ears. So I called up Tuli, a Tel Aviv sound engineer and friend of ours who usually works on Israel’s leading films and television shows. He joined me for an afternoon of conversations at the heart of Tel Aviv’s bustling streets. I started with Amit Aronson, a well-known restaurant critic in Israel, a television journalist, blogger and writer. Then I met with Yonatan Sagiv, a PhD in Literature and novelist who has written three popular Hebrew language detective novels. A few blocks away I met with Yaara Keydar, a fashion historian and curator, who is now working on her doctorate at Hebrew University. I wrapped up the day with my old pal Danna Starn, who is Managing Director of YES Studios and -- according to The Hollywood Reporter -- has a knack for turning "hyper-local shows like 'Fauda', 'On the Spectrum' and ‘Shtisel’ into international hits". These conversations paint a picture of life in Post-Pandemic Israel… A picture that could be our reality in a few months.

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0:00.0	Last Thursday, 45 Israelis were killed and countless more injured in a tragic accident at Mount
0:06.3	Maron in northern Israel, where thousands of Israelis had gathered to celebrate Lagba
0:11.3	Omer.
0:12.6	Every human life is precious, but a single event that takes the lives of 45 people from
0:17.9	a population of only 9.3 million is catastrophic in the life of a nation.
0:24.0	We had recorded a podcast episode while I was in Israel, which was before this tragedy.
0:29.0	It's an episode that tries to capture life in post-Koronaona Israel. We were scheduled to post it last
0:34.9	Friday but we held off given events. Alon and I spoke to family and friends in Israel in the
0:40.4	past few days and we decided to release the episode after Israel's
0:44.0	National Day of Morning. So that's what we're doing. It's an episode on what we can
0:49.1	learn from post-Corona Israel about what's coming our way based on conversations I had there around
0:55.6	Israel's Independence Day.
0:58.6	Welcome to Post Corona, where we try to understand COVID-19's lasting impact on the economy, culture, and geopolitics.
1:06.1	I'm Dan Señ.
1:07.1	Today we're doing something different. After 15 months of avoiding business travel,
1:19.7	last week I boarded a plane to attend meetings in Israel.
1:23.9	When I landed, it felt more like I boarded a DeLorian and time-traveled ahead to the era of post-Corona,
1:30.8	a land far far away. I arrived here on April 15th the 73rd anniversary of Israel's
1:37.3	Declaration of Independence and the energy was electrifying. The streets were bustling, the restaurants packed, and the traffic insane.
1:47.2	With 85% of Israelis, 16 and older, inoculated, and with fewer than 100 daily infections in hospitals emptying out
1:55.8	it was clear that as far as Israelis are concerned the pandemic is just
2:00.2	another chapter in history. Life in Tel Aviv in Jerusalem felt like a movie trailer for the
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