What Matters Now
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What Matters Now

by The Times of Israel

A weekly exploration of one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World right now.

100 episodes
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1
Einat Wilf: Fall of Iran an opportunity to uproot 'Palestinianism'
51:42 Mar 10, 2026
2
Micah Goodman: How Israel and the US may prevent World War III
42:14 Mar 5, 2026
3
Meyer Levinson-Blount: Oscar nominee's film 'Butcher's Stain' reveals life post-Oct. 7
33:24 Feb 24, 2026
4
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: NGO admits Hamas controls Gaza's hospitals. Why now?
34:40 Feb 18, 2026
5
Alice Miller: CEO of Israeli disaster org on aiding Gazans post-Oct. 7
31:55 Feb 10, 2026
6
Yonit Levi and Jonathan Freedland: Two Jews on the news discuss all that is Unholy
52:34 Feb 4, 2026
7
Haviv Rettig Gur: Hamas is holding Gazans hostage
44:49 Jan 29, 2026
8
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Inside the technocratic council set to rule Gaza
42:27 Jan 20, 2026
9
Podcaster Mitch Ginsburg: Escape from Tehran, an untold 1979 Israeli caper
1:21:38 Jan 15, 2026
10
Stand-up comedian Liz Glazer: 'Israel is the reason I exist'
30:33 Dec 30, 2025
11
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Five likely scenarios for Gaza in 2026
52:30 Dec 23, 2025
12
Adeena Sussman: Latke frying helps cooks cope with life's complexities
30:22 Dec 14, 2025
13
ADL's James Pasch: Taking on the Axis of Evil through lawfare
25:48 Dec 9, 2025
14
Dr. Gilad Malach: Haredi draft bill is a wedge issue for a divided nation
38:30 Dec 2, 2025
15
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Hamas iron grip restores order, but Gazans aim to throw off shackles
43:38 Nov 25, 2025
16
What Matters Now to Prof. Asher Cohen: Academic boycott of Israel is 'catastrophic'
38:14 Nov 19, 2025
17
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The case for pardoning Netanyahu
40:41 Nov 12, 2025
18
What Matters Now to Jordan Hoffman: The new Hollywood buddy film, 'Nuremberg'
41:03 Nov 5, 2025
19
What Matters Now to Eli Sharabi: Living with trauma and mourning
17:50 Oct 27, 2025
20
What Matters Now to Orna and Ronen Neutra: Their son is still in Gaza
28:06 Oct 21, 2025
21
What Matters Now to Micah Goodman: End of Gaza war heralds a tectonic shift in Israel
38:54 Oct 15, 2025
22
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel's next front is its own fractures
42:20 Oct 7, 2025
23
What Matters Now to Rachel Goldberg-Polin: A deep hope for repair and relief
45:37 Sep 30, 2025
24
What Matters Now to Yossi Klein Halevi: Struggling to make moral sense of the Gaza war
51:28 Sep 22, 2025
25
What Matters Now to Daniel Gordis: The lonely man of Zionism
35:26 Sep 16, 2025
26
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Did Israel 'break the rules' in Qatar strike?
22:24 Sep 10, 2025
27
What Matters Now to Deborah Conway & Tamar Paluch: Australia is rife with antisemitism
35:23 Sep 2, 2025
28
What Matters Now to legal expert Menachem Rosensaft: Israel is not committing genocide
47:08 Aug 26, 2025
29
What Matters Now to Dennis Ross: There is a deal to be made to end the Gaza war
59:22 Aug 19, 2025
30
What Matters Now to Prof. Dan Turner: Treating our enemies humanely makes us human
30:53 Aug 13, 2025
31
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: When Temple Mount prayer is a call to settle Gaza
36:18 Aug 5, 2025
32
What Matters Now to Daniel Taub: Still mourning, Israel is not ripe to talk peace - yet
37:52 Jul 30, 2025
33
What Matters Now to Dan Ben-David: Israel's moment of truth is here
49:08 Jul 23, 2025
34
What Matters Now to comic Guri Alfi: Israelis and American Jews must remain unified
23:23 Jul 15, 2025
35
What Matters Now to Micah Goodman: Israel may soon remake the region
42:12 Jul 9, 2025
36
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: When Israeli extremists go to war - against Israel
45:20 Jul 1, 2025
37
What Matters Now to director Daniel Syrkin: How 'Tehran' season 4 reflects Israel-Iran war
24:40 Jun 24, 2025
38
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The existential Israel-Iran War
18:59 Jun 14, 2025
39
What Matters Now to Rabbi Noa Sattath: Global LGBTQ+ support for Hamas
32:33 Jun 10, 2025
40
What Matters Now to David Horovitz: Shedding light on war when the facts are dim
34:30 Jun 3, 2025
41
What Matters Now to Prof. Elie Podeh: When the IDF disengaged from Gaza, 20 years ago
31:47 May 27, 2025
42
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: What did Trump mean when he said...
32:04 May 20, 2025
43
What Matters Now to Eurovision mega-fan Tal Dahan: Politics, protests and camp in Basel
27:36 May 14, 2025
44
Bereaved mother Elana Kaminka: End the Gaza 'forever war'
39:14 May 7, 2025
45
What Matters Now to The Times of Israel: That all Oct. 7 fallen are remembered
28:12 Apr 29, 2025
46
What Matters Now to Prof. Manuela Consonni: How women resisted the Nazis
31:27 Apr 23, 2025
47
What Matters Now to Israel Story's Mitch Ginsburg: A 1973 exodus from Egypt
1:32:26 Apr 16, 2025
48
What Matters Now to hostage mom Idit Ohel: Let our captives go!
26:40 Apr 9, 2025
49
What Matters Now to author Dara Horn: Why Jews are the eternal scapegoat
48:41 Apr 2, 2025
50
What Matters Now to Jonathan Dekel-Chen: US feels like the hostages' only beacon
39:58 Mar 27, 2025
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