Yossi Halevi

Nov 9, 2024 | timesofisrael.com | Yossi Halevi

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world. Today, we bring you a bonus episode of What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World. This week, we hand the mic over to Yossi Klein Halevi, a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute and an author, thinker and writer for The Times of Israel and many other outlets.

Oct 10, 2024 | jewishjournal.com | Yossi Halevi

Already a year? Only a year? Since Oct. 7, 2023, many of us have felt unmoored in time. I rarely know the date; sometimes I forget the month. Disorientation is an apt response to the end of the post-Holocaust era, a seminal moment in which many of our most cherished assumptions have been upended. The post-Holocaust era of the last eight decades was defined by optimism about the Jewish future. However improbably, we had emerged, stronger than ever, from the event intended to destroy us.

Oct 7, 2024 | latimes.com | Yossi Halevi

The war that began in Gaza was never about Gaza alone. Defeating Hamas is the first stage of a regional conflict between Israel and the Iranian-led axis of radical Islamism.

Oct 7, 2024 | yahoo.com | Yossi Halevi

The war that began in Gaza was never about Gaza alone. Defeating Hamas is the first stage of a regional conflict between Israel and the Iranian-led axis of radical Islamism.

Oct 7, 2024 | flipboard.com | Yossi Halevi

When Jesus told the 12 disciples to shake the dust off their feet in protest of any town that did not receive them, it is easy to forget their …