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NEW PODCAST: ‘Israel Insider’ with Ashley Perry

This week’s episode: Are we headed to a civil war?

JNS is pleased to announce a new podcast partnership with ‘Israel Insider with Ashley Perry,’ produced and hosted by the Middle East Forum (MEF). Each week, Ashley Perry, a former senior Israeli government adviser, provides insight into what’s behind the headlines in Israel. You can join live every Wednesday at 3 p.m. ET, 8 p.m. UK Time and 10 p.m. Israel Time here, or catch it on Youtube, Apple Podcasts and Sound Cloud the following day.

Perry served as an adviser to Israel’s minister of foreign affairs and deputy prime minister from 2009-15; he has also worked in the Prime Minister’s Office and with Israel’s ministers of intelligence, defense, tourism, energy, national infrastructure and water, agriculture, internal security, immigrant absorption, as well as with the chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. He has served as director of communications for presidents, prime ministers and political parties outside Israel and served as an adviser and consultant to many governments, public figures, and organizations.

On this week’s Israel Insider, Ashley Perry discusses the current upheaval in Israel surrounding judicial reform. Increasingly, voices are predicting civil war in Israel over the judicial reform issue. Is such a scenario possible? Has Israeli politics ever been this divisive?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJF1qxwxcxY

Ashley Perry is an adviser to the Middle East Forum’s Israel office. He served as an adviser to Israel’s foreign minister and deputy prime minister from 2009 to 2015. He is president of Reconectar, an organization dedicated to relinking the more than 200 million descendants of Spanish and Portuguese Jews to Israel and Jewish life. Originally from the United Kingdom, he moved to Israel in 2001.
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