War with Iran - Day 4 - Living Under Fire

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

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🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Day 4 of the Israel–Iran war: What does life look like inside Israel right now? Yonit and Jonathan reconnect for the first time since the beginning of the war with Iran. What does war feel like minute-by-minute? What does it mean when sirens sound every hour and a half — day and night? What happens to a society when workplaces close, schools shut, airports empty, and families move between safe rooms and bomb shelters as routine?Yonit describes the exhausting rhythm of preliminary alerts, the psychological strain of constant disruption, and the quiet resilience of Israeli civilians navigating a conflict that feels both immediate and existential. They discuss: ▶︎ The difference between June’s confrontation and this new phase ▶︎ The strategy behind Iran’s high-frequency missile fire ▶︎ The role of deterrence — and whether this is the beginning of the end for the Iranian regime ▶︎ The balance between exhaustion and resolve inside Israel ▶︎ And ultimately: who decides when this ends? Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Context of the Conflict 00:43 Living Under Fire: Daily Life in Israel 04:10 The Psychological Impact of Constant Alerts 10:29 Public Sentiment and Resilience Amidst Conflict 15:28 The Role of Leadership and External Influences 22:29 Looking Ahead: The Future of the Conflict

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0:00.0	It's Unholy. I'm Unhelye. I'm Unite Levy in Tel Aviv. And I'm Jonathan Friedland, usually in London,
0:06.4	currently in Australia. Jonathan, it's good to hear you and see you from very far away.
0:12.8	We haven't been together on the podcast for a while. We're now in day four of what we should start
0:18.7	calling, I think, the second Iran war. The first was in June.
0:23.3	We will try to bring you, our dear listeners, updates daily. We had a fascinating episode that you
0:30.1	did with Almas R.L. Sort of setting the stage on what the strike was, the U.S.-Israeli strike that
0:34.9	started on Saturday. Then a conversation with Suzanne Maloney
0:38.6	about where Iran is heading and the significance of the assassination of Ali Khomeini, the Supreme
0:45.2	Leader. What we wanted to do today is, I think mainly, talk to you, Jonathan, about where we are,
0:51.9	how we live now, what it feels like to be an Israeli in the past
0:55.7	four days.
0:57.9	Yes.
0:58.3	I mean, what I was going to say was I think there will be plenty of time in the coming days,
1:03.5	maybe longer, to get through all the analytical questions.
1:06.9	And obviously, those are piling up about why, when, how, etc.
1:10.7	But I thought that in our first conversation of the two of us together directly since this
1:15.4	started, it would just be really useful for me, but I think for people around the world as well
1:19.8	to hear from you what it's been like to be absolutely in the middle of this and just the
1:26.6	day-to-day encounters and it just
1:28.2	strike a moment by moment experience of this rather and it just struck me that you know we'd
1:33.0	arranged to speak i think 25 minutes or half an hour ago we couldn't because the text message arrived
1:38.9	from you saying the sirens have started again and i just just talk talk walk us through what it's currently like. There you are in
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