The Impact of the Iran War on Israel and the Jewish People
3/18/202648 min
What is the hidden cost of Israeli resilience?
In this episode, Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi move beyond strategic analysis to examine how the war is reshaping daily life in Israel, why the polls haven't budged despite a popular and militarily successful war, and what the Lebanon ground operation reveals about Israel's most stubborn patterns. They also confront the growing divide in American Jewry over Israel's place in Jewish identity — a rift that goes far deeper than policy disagreement.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
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Donniel Hartman· Host0:06
The biggest impact of the war so far is that it's created a new normal in Israeli society.
Yossi Klein Halevi· Host0:17
We can call it routine emergency. That's our life. That's our life.
Donniel Hartman· Host0:21
It's not like the vast majority of Jews are against the war or that the vast majority of Jews are separating from Israel. It's not that yet. I'm not here a prophet of doom, and everybody quotes the poll that resonates more closely with an opinion that they want. And I don't want world Jewry to walk away from us. But there is no doubt that this war is a bifurcating experience of a level that we haven't seen before. It's bifurcating in America, and it's bifurcating within the Jewish community. [pensive music] Hi, friends. This is Daniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi from the Shalom Hartman Institute, and this is our podcast, For Heaven's Sake, in collaboration with Arc Media. Today is Tuesday, March 17th, and today's episode we're calling "The Impact of the Iran War on Israel and the Jewish People." As we're taping this episode, we were