Edo Konrad

Oct 16, 2024 | 972mag.com | Jonathan Adler |Edo Konrad

Halfway into our conversation, Oren Persico makes a startling confession. The veteran Israeli journalist, whose job for the better half of the last two decades has been to monitor his country’s media, doesn’t watch mainstream Israeli news. “I just can’t do it,” Persico, who has worked as a staff writer for the Israeli media watchdog site The Seventh Eye since 2006, tells me. “It’s depressing and infuriating — it’s propaganda, it’s full of lies.

Sep 20, 2024 | 972mag.com | Jonathan Adler |Edo Konrad

For most Israelis, Iran is little more than a faceless, hostile entity — an enemy to be feared, sanctioned, and, if necessary, overthrown. Despite years of rising tensions and repeated threats from Tehran, the Israeli public’s understanding of the Islamic Republic remains frustratingly simplistic.

Sep 3, 2023 | 972mag.com | Edo Konrad |Samah Salaime

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Jul 24, 2023 | 972mag.com | Edo Konrad |Menachem Klein

The brewing “civil war” we are currently witnessing in Israel is not a flashing spectacle, but rather a long-running process. Contrary to how the far right has tried to bombastically portray the mass opposition to its judicial overhaul, IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi and Shin Bet Director Ronan Bar did not ride on tanks to the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem to announce to the nation that they are taking over the government for a transitional period until democracy is restored.

Jul 20, 2023 | 972mag.com | Edo Konrad |Meron Rapoport

Writing in Haaretz last week, Israeli security journalist Amos Harel reported that, at least in practice, the United States and Iran already have an unwritten agreement regarding the latter’s nuclear question. According to him, Iran will freeze its uranium enrichment, and in return the United States will allow the release of billions of dollars in Iranian assets across several countries, after the money was frozen as part of American sanctions.