Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Three years ago this week, Amir Tibon spent ten hours in a safe room in Kibbutz Nahal Oz with his wife and daughters while Hamas gunmen moved from house to house. They stayed there until he was rescued - by his father, a retired general, who had driven down from Tel Aviv with a pistol to get them out. Amir has now moved with his family back to the kibbutz.
Jonathan talks to Tibon — Haaretz journalist and author of The Gates of Gaza — about that return, why the third anniversary feels heavier than the first two, and why he lies awake over the election on 27 October as well as over the gunfire still audible from Gaza. Is the coming vote a verdict on the failure of 7 October, or on who can stop the next one?
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00:00 Unholy Conversations - 3 years since October 7th
01:13 Introduction to Amir Tibon's Story
05:01 The Impact of October 7th on Amir's Family
08:52 Returning to Nahal Oz: A Journey of Resilience
13:42 Reflections on the Third Anniversary of October 7th
18:46 The Political Landscape and Future Concerns


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A note to listeners: This episode includes a Nova survivor’s account of October 7, including descriptions of traumatic events that some listeners may find distressing.
Three years after the Nova festival massacre, Yuval Raphael is going back to Re'im — to sing at the memorial, on the ground where she survived eight hours in a roadside shelter. This week she sits down with Yonit for a conversation about what those three years have actually been like. Why a girl once too frightened to sing outside her own bedroom chose to represent Israel at Eurovision in Basel, and what the booing did to her on stage. What she asked a social worker from her hospital bed, and why she now tells her story over and over — to ambassadors, to the UN, to Gen Z. And the two rules she offers a country still learning how to grieve, one of them gentler than you might expect.
Watch it on Youtube: https://youtu.be/zCvdAhuWfms

00:00 Unholy Conversations - 3 years since October 7th.
01:46 Introduction to Yuval Rafael
04:45 Returning to the Nova Festival Site
07:30 The Healing Journey After Trauma
10:31 Advice for Coping with Trauma
13:18 Retelling the Survivor Story
27:31 The Impact of the Nova Festival Massacre
35:34 Representing Israel at Eurovision
40:36 Reflections on a Generation's Trauma



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As a wave of euphoria and relief sweeps Israel, following the attempted - and foiled - hijacking of Flight FZ1073, Yonit and Jonathan delve deep into the story and its implications. They discuss the courage and ingenuity of the passengers who took on a co-pilot apparently bent on causing the mass death of a plane full of Israelis, what the episode says about the character of the country - and what its impact might be on this month’s all-important elections.
Plus: they assess a failed effort to unite the opposition as they seek to eject Benjamin Netanyahu from office, ongoing violence in the West Bank and a world that increasingly refuses to shake Israel by the hand.

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Watch this interview in Hebrew and English subtitles: https://youtu.be/zh-KenD4s5w
Ra'am has done something no Arab party in Israel has tried before—put a Jewish, Zionist former police major general on its slate. With the election weeks away, Likud wants the party disqualified, much of the opposition insists it won't sit with it, and some in his own community call its leader a traitor. Yonit and Jonathan sit down with Mansour Abbas, the man who first took an Arab party into an Israeli governing coalition. What did bringing Yoav Segalovitz on board cost him at home? Does he say the same thing in Hebrew as he does in Arabic? What does "Islamist" actually mean to him? And if Netanyahu calls after October 27th—will he answer?

00:00 Intro
00:15 Yoav Segalovitz joins Ra'am
03:39 An Arab seat for a Jewish politician?
06:31 Will the opposition really refuse to sit with Ra'am?
11:15 Why Arab turnout lags
13:45 The threats on his life
16:16 Netanyahu or Eisenkot: does it matter to Arab voters?
20:34 Breaking away from the Islamic Movement
26:01 What does "Islamist" mean?
32:53 Hebrew vs Arabic: does he mean what he says?
40:02 Is the two-state solution too tired?
47:22 Who's the next prime minister, and would he sit with Netanyahu?

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Decision day approaches for the judges who will determine who is - and who is not - allowed to stand in the Israeli elections on 27 October. The supreme court is likely to overturn a move by the government to ban the main Arab parties, but more unpredictable is the fate of one individual politician from the Arab nationalist party, Balad - a man who seemingly wrote in praise of the 7 October attacks. Yonit and Jonathan debate the legal and political aspects of the case - and the wider effort by Benjamin Netanyahu to cast his lead opponent, Gadi Eisenkot, as dependent on Arab support. Plus: have elections in Germany made the country newly unsafe for Jews? And who is the soccer legend who could soon be known as Roo the Jew?

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