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This is Jonny Gould’s podcast of record and diplomacy for Israel and the Jewish diaspora.

These are conversations for everyone, with top guests and their most essential thoughts and perspectives. Presidents and politicians, commanders, artists, ambassadors, rabbis and rock stars - even Mossad agents.

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This is Jonny Gould’s podcast of record and diplomacy for Israel and the Jewish diaspora.

These are conversations for everyone, with top guests and their most essential thoughts and perspectives. Presidents and politicians, commanders, artists, ambassadors, rabbis and rock stars - even Mossad agents.

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    Iran's War on Israel News Bulletin

    Iran's War on Israel News Bulletin

    Iran's war against Israel comes fully out of the shadows.
    Since Iran's unprecedented direct attack on Israel, Jonny compiles and hosts the first of a regular news bulletin rounding up major stories as the Middle East conflict is being realised as the Iran-Israel War.
    These regular bulletins expose the Iran Octopus as the prime mover in the Middle East conflict.
    All of the soundbites from world-class experts are compiled from interview episodes of Jonny Gould's Jewish State podcast. Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts.
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    • 13 min
    145: Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis: "If you're a rabbi and everyone loves you, you're not a rabbi and if you're a rabbi and nobody loves you, you're not a mensch!"

    145: Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis: "If you're a rabbi and everyone loves you, you're not a rabbi and if you're a rabbi and nobody loves you, you're not a mensch!"

    This is a rather special episode featuring a competition winner from North West London Jewish Day School who won the chance to make an episode of Jonny Gould's Jewish State. 
    Awareness of news and current affairs is certainly heightened by the pressure of social media - so imagine a young person growing up in this day and age.
    I ran a competition for the pupils of Year 6 and I said to the class, “get me an interesting interviewee and write down the questions you’d like to ask them”.
    I was delighted that 11-year-old Maya Amit stepped up to the plate and secured time with the Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, who invited us to his home. 
    This episode is presented with Lemon Soul in loving memory of the late Jonny Zucker, a born educator, children’s author and primary school teacher, who also trained as a radio journalist. His mission was encouraging children to read, he visited school after school, library after library.
    With thanks to the Chief Rabbi for giving us his valuable time at home, to competition winner Maya Amit and mum Raquel.
    To Miss Caplan and Mr. Radomsky at North West London Jewish Day School and to Nigel Canin and all at Lemon Soul, a publishing house from EdTech company, 2Simple, in loving memory of the late, great Jonny Zucker.
    Jonny, I hope you’d be proud of this initiative x
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    • 28 min
    144: Ruth Wasserman Lande: Iran emerges from behind its precise, premeditated proxy pawns

    144: Ruth Wasserman Lande: Iran emerges from behind its precise, premeditated proxy pawns

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    The Islamic Republic of Iran emerges from behind the regional proxies it's used as pawns until now to take direct action against Israel.
    Over 300 suicide drones, ballistic and cruise missiles targeted Israel from multiple fronts from Iran, as well as Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
    99% were intercepted, mostly outside of Israel's airspace by Israeli, British, American, French, Saudi and Jordanian forces. 
    So what tactical change by Iran does this signify? Have they ramped up a level towards their endgame, the step-by-step systematic, premeditated domination of firstly the Middle East - and then the world. 
    Ruth Wasserman Lande is former MK for the Blue and White Party, she served as advisor to Shimon Peres and as Deputy Ambassador at the Israeli embassy in Cairo.
    Her parents arrived from Soviet Lithuania. They lived in Ashdod before moving to South Africa.
    Then she decided to make Aliyah and return to Israel. 
    Since October 7th, she’s addressed groups of parliamentarians from across Europe and hasn't held back telling them in graphic form about the extreme violence, burning, shooting, raping and murdering of civilians on that terrible morning.
    I caught up with Ruth in London as the European Jewish Association organised a tour of Jewish community leaders in London, Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow. 
    Hear why she says the IDF should go into Rafah and finish off Hamas once and for all as well as what Israel should do with Iran.
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    • 36 min
    143: Amichai Chikli: "October 7th has created a reset for world Jewry. There is an awakening of the Jewish spirit"

    143: Amichai Chikli: "October 7th has created a reset for world Jewry. There is an awakening of the Jewish spirit"

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    This is Israel’s minister of the diaspora Amichai Chikli, with me in Krakow, just a short distance from Auschwitz, where we’d journeyed together with other international leaders as part of a European Jewish Association delegation.
    We were all there for a symposium on antisemitism in Europe called, "Never Again: Lip Service or Deep Commitment?"
    Also among the notables, former Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, who pushed back in our interview on Polish Holocaust denial on Polish soil - and Elon Musk, in conversation with Ben Shapiro - and coming soon on Jonny Gould's Jewish state, former French prime minister Manuel Valls, who conducted our interview in French.
    Amichai tells us that October 7th is a reset for the House of Israel to achieve a new unity and awareness and pride in Jewish identity. 
    He pays tribute to individuals within American Jewish leadership, who recognise the dangers of the university campus, where words lead to violence. 
    And we talk of prospects for peace: where it’ll come from and through the worst days of Israeli-American diplomacy, how Israel must prevail over Hamas.
    So that “Never Again is Now” doesn’t lead to a Never Again tomorrow.
    This is Amichai Chikli, Israel's minister of the diaspora.
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    • 19 min
    142: Emily Schrader in London: "shocked at tolerance of antisemitism" and Benedict Spence: "happy days ahead for Bibi?"

    142: Emily Schrader in London: "shocked at tolerance of antisemitism" and Benedict Spence: "happy days ahead for Bibi?"

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    Emily Schrader returned to London for a whistlestop tour of speaking engagements and appearances and attend street protests in solidarity with Britain's Jewish community, embattled by the unrelenting pro-Palestinian hate marches which never seem to end.
    Listen to how she deals with the antisemites on the streets of London and how she views the over tolerance of Islamofascism spreading fast across the West.
    Emily appeared on my Talk TV early breakfast show alongside news commentator and foreign policy expert, Benedict Spence as we discussed fears of escalating tensions caused by Hezbollah from Lebanon, why they haven't started a full-scale war yet and why "happy days" could be ahead of Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
    But can he survive until November to get there?
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    • 30 min
    141: Col. Richard Kemp: "The UN, US and UK just threw the Israeli hostages under the bus"

    141: Col. Richard Kemp: "The UN, US and UK just threw the Israeli hostages under the bus"

    The war started by the October 7th massacres is the longest in Israel's history.
    But with rockets still being fired from Gaza into Israel’s southernmost city of Sderot and a first Houthi rocket landing further south, what next steps are open to Israel - and what of the deteriorating relationship with the United States?
    Our esteemed guest today is Col. Richard Kemp, commander of British Forces in Afghanistan and Chair of the COBRA Intelligence Group, coordinating MI5 and MI6 during the London bombings of 2005 and the Bali and Madrid terror attacks.
    Richard joined the Army the day after he left school and spent thirty distinguished years in Northern Ireland, Iraq, Bosnia, as well as Afghanistan. 
    He always delivers new insight into war commentary and this discussion is no different.
    Col. Kemp hails the success of the Shifa Hospital campaign in northern Gaza as “the single largest and most successful operations in the war so far".
    The IDF killed around 140 terrorists from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, as well as arresting around 650 additional terrorists.
    He describes the evacuation of a million or more civilians sheltering in Rafah as possible - and explains how instead of moving Gazans north into cities like Khan Yunis, why Egypt could so easily solve the refugee issue - but won’t.
    Not forgetting our hostages? Where are they? How can they be rescued? Israel has never been more on its own. 
    Richard says Hamas has only been emboldened by the UN Security Council resolution, which called for a ceasefire and for the freeing of hostages, but to Israel’s fury did not hinge the ceasefire demand on freeing them. 
    But there is a military alternative to going into Rafah. With world opinion led by the UN and the Biden Administration squarely against Israel finishing off Hamas on their terms, Richard explains the options open to Israel which you're not hearing about in the media. You’ll hear it here.
    Plus the unreported cooperation between Israel and Egypt, who also share a border with Gaza beyond Rafah. 
    This episode is presented with the cooperation and support of ELNET UK, a bipartisan, cross-party international organisation working to advance UK-Israel relations based on shared democratic values and strategic interests.
    Our discussion is led by ELNET UK's CEO, the Rt. Hon. Joan Ryan.
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    • 56 min

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