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"Ask Haviv Anything" is a podcast about history, a podcast you, dear listener, will help to shape and direct, focusing not just on what I want to talk about but on what you want to learn and discuss. Nothing is off limits. We're going to talk about big and painful things, and also beautiful and fascinating things, wars and identities and painful history. And also more light-hearted things. Humor matters, especially when facing tough subjects.Join me on this journey.A podcast by Haviv Rettig Gur
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Episodes (150)
Episode 45: 48 hours in Syria, with David Horovitz
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Episode 44: Fateful choices to make in the new year, a comment for Rosh Hashanah
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Episode 43: After Doha, Israel needs a new story
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Episode 42: Why is Egypt so scared to open its border with Gaza? with Mariam Wah...
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Episode 41: The rise and fall of Ottoman Jewry with Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanaroca...
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Episode 40: You still need real life spies to win wars, with Yossi Cohen
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Episode 39: Fear and loathing in the diaspora, live in Oslo with Bjørn Gabrielse...
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Episode 38: What will it take to defeat Hamas? With Prof. John Spencer
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Episode 37: The genocidal claim of genocide with Adam Louis-Klein
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Episode 36: How marginalized Mizrahim became Israel's first spies
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Episode 35: Solving hunger in Gaza with Prof. Yannay Spitzer
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Episode 34: My life in Al-Qaeda, a conversation with Aimen Dean
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Episode 33: Thoughts for Tisha B’Av - We live in history
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Episode 32: Hunger and the Gaza war
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Episode 31: The century-old harbinger of October 7, a conversation with Yardena...
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Episode 30: How the Middle East broke, a conversation with Hussein Aboubakr Mans...
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Episode 29: After the Druze massacre, can Israel make peace with Joulani? A conv...
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Episode 28: The Gaza Paradox
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Episode 27: Music amidst trauma - a conversation on life in a war with Aya Korem...
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Episode 26: How Iran’s regime subverted Shia Islam - with Hussain Abdul-Hussain
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Episode 25: What is happening in Gaza?
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Episode 24: With Iran down, Turkey steps into the breach - a conversation with D...
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Episode 23: Iran bows out
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Episode 22: A new dawn in the Middle East?
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Episode 21: Why won’t Haredim serve in the IDF? A deep dive with Shmuel Rosner
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Episode 20: Regime change in Iran? What the 1979 revolution can teach us.
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Episode 19: Iran faces a humbler, more dangerous Israel
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Episode 18: Taking on the ayatollahs with Mark Dubowitz
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Episode 17: The Gaza war began 25 years ago, a conversation with Matti Friedman
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Episode 16: Hamas and the broken promise of 150 years of Islamic reform
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Episode 15: Jerusalem Day, a modern redemption story
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Episode 14: Should Israel give up on international law ? A conversation with a f...
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Episode 13: John Spencer on war, morality, politics and the fight for the future...
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Episode 12: How Qatar gets a free pass for Islamist radicalism, a conversation w...
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Episode 11: Iran is imploding - A conversation with Dr. Sharona Mazalian Levi
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Episode 10: Thirty years of traumatic peacemaking - what do Israelis really thin...
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Bonus episode: This Passover, we find our freedom
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Episode 9: Did Biden derail Saudi normalization? Breaking down the Abraham Accor...
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Episode 8: Prof. Alexander Yakobson on what it means to "decolonize Palestine"
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Episode 7 - Judicial Reform: Is tribalism eating Israeli democracy alive?
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Episode 6: Why won't Israel fight for the Democrats? With Rep. Ritchie Torres
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Extra Episode: Back to war in Gaza
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Episode 5: When your family is taken hostage
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Episode 4 - Last Jew Standing: The story of Israeli Jews
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Episode 3: John Spencer on why Israel hasn't yet won the war in Gaza
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Comment: We will protect our own
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Episode 2: The lost history of American Jews
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Episode 1: The Untold Story of Herzl's Journey to Zionism
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Extra: Hamas holds Gaza's future hostage
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Episode 0: History That Matters
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