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Podcast: Press call with Yohanan Plesner, Emmanuel Navon on Israel elections

With early elections set for April 9, 2019, TIP hosted president of the Israel Democracy Institute Yohanan Plesner and senior fellow at the Kohelet Policy Forum Emmanuel Navon for analysis of events to come.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the plenary session in the Knesset on Oct. 31, 2018. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the plenary session in the Knesset on Oct. 31, 2018. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.
“For 20 years prior, secretly, I was learning Torah, I was learning the Bible, the biblical understanding of history, and I wanted to go to a place where I can live and also play,” the NBA legend said of his time playing in Israel.
“There is democracy within Likud,” Israeli Transportation and Road Safety Minister Miri Regev told JNS.
“Our rabbis reignited the candles, helped us breathe and found the words to respond to the moment in real time,” the Reform synagogue stated. “Our congregation refused to let hate extinguish our Shabbat light.”
Israeli forces killed a senior commander in Hezbollah’s Badr Unit in Southern Lebanon following the group’s attack on three soldiers within the Security Zone.