Unholy: Two Jews on the News

The Ghost of October 7th, Wild Polling — and a Response to Mamdani

Three years after October 7th, and eighteen days before Israel votes, this third anniversary felt different from the first two — and yet it may not move a single vote. Wi

Amir Tibon on October 7, three years on - and Israel's election

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 st

Yuval Raphael on Nova, healing and Eurovision

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. T

Drama in the skies - politics on the ground

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 im

Mansour Abbas: The Man who would be Kingmaker

  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, Zio

The Disqualification Games, German angst — and Wayne Rooney’s Bubbe

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 t

The Haredi Playbook: MK Yitzhak Pindrus on the Draft, Coalition Red Lines, and the Future of the Community

With Israel deep in an election campaign and the country still grappling with the strains of a multi-front war, the fiercely contested exemption of ultra-Orthodox men fro

Polls, Naza, Macklemore

With Yonit feeling a little under the weather, Jonathan is joined by friend of the podcast, Haaretz military affairs analyst Amos Harel (also, author of 6:29). They discu

Ilana Dayan on Israel's Most Crucial Choice

As Israel heads into what may be the most consequential election of its history, the country is still arguing less about where it's going than about how it got here. This

The Lists, the Sanctions, and six weeks to go

September 8th was the deadline for Israeli parties to file their lists — and Netanyahu reached it less organised than he'd have liked, with a rival on the right running a

Rabbi Angela Buchdahl on forgiveness, Zionism and Mamdani

The Jewish new year arrives with the word ‘Zionist’ deemed an insult and a technology that never forgets anything that anyone has ever said or done. Following Unholy trad

Rock Bottom Politics and the Art of the If-Pology

    Seven weeks out from an election that in many ways is a referendum on culpability for October 7th, Benjamin Netanyahu tells Channel 14 that if only they had woken h

Gordon Brown on Nationalist Populism, Israel and Hope

The former UK Prime Minister and Chancellor joins Yonit and Jonathan for the latest of our Unholy Conversations — on the void populist nationalists have moved into, on th

The 60-Day Countdown, Sledgehammer Politics -- and Dolly Parton

Join as Friend of the pod: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Unholypod   With sixty days to go until the Israeli elections, the political jockeying enters into overdrive. Yoni

Andy Nyman on saying "F-You" to Hitler on stage

It's the end of summer, and Yonit and Jonathan are taking a break from the news with a nugget of pure Jewish joy. Andy Nyman — the West End actor, writer, director and ma

Bibi's Primary Battles, Gaza Deadlines, and the Plus-sign "Plot"

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The Middle East Cauldron - with Simon Sebag Montefiore

Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore returns to Unholy to discuss his sweeping new book, The Cauldron: A History of the Middle East between 1900 and 2026. He tells

Clash with the White House, clash on the West Bank

Benjamin Netanyahu has said no to Donald Trump's 15-point Gaza plan, and the refusal is flat rather than fudged. In the West Bank, extremist settlers have besieged two Pa

The mediaeval image of the Jew - and why it’s lasted. With Miri Rubin

Three of the oldest myths about Jews — relating to money, blood and the way they look — were forged in medieval Christian Europe, mostly in places where there were almost

Trump moves on Gaza, Netanyahu moves on his opponents

With Yonit away, Jonathan is joined by Anshel Pfeffer, Israel correspondent of the Economist, as they discuss the muted reaction to the announcement made by Donald Trump