The Deep Dive

Jerusalem Post Podcasts

The Deep Dive is The Jerusalem Post's flagship podcast series, hosted by Jacob Laznik.  Each week, we review the top stories, put an up-close lens on a major topic, and dissect the main story of the week. 

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    Why this deal makes the next war with Iran more likely

    The US and Iran finalized phase one of talks this week. Israel was not in the room. In this episode of The Deep Dive, Shifra Jacobs (filling in for Jacob Laznik) is joined by Ezra Taylor, The Jerusalem Post's social media manager, for a roundup of a week that may shape the region for years. They unpack what the US-Iran deal actually contains, oil waivers, $12 billion in unfrozen Iranian assets, a reported $300 billion reconstruction fund, and Taylor's central argument that the deal makes the next war with Iran more likely, not less. They walk through research showing Hezbollah's October-7-style plans for the northern border have existed in broadcast form since at least 2012. Then they pivot to a string of antisemitic incidents across continents, Berlin, Haarlem, Manchester, Montreal, and what it tells us about a climate political leaders are still struggling to name.

    59 min

  2. 18 juni

    Did the US just hand Iran the worst deal in history?

    The US and Iran are days away from signing a deal in Switzerland. Israel has been left out of it. And Yasmin Sayeh — an Iranian-Israeli strategic analyst whose family fled Iran — opens this conversation by saying it plainly: "This is probably the worst deal ever. I cannot believe it." In this episode of The Deep Dive, Shifra Jacobs (filling in for Jacob Laznik) sits down with Yasmin Sayeh — an Iranian-Israeli analyst with an MA in security studies, a member of Forum Dvora, a Persian speaker, and the daughter of immigrants from Iran. Sayeh works to bridge the gap between academic strategy and the human reality inside Iran, and she brings both to bear here. She walks through what the deal does and doesn't address, the way the regime has spent the past months brutally suppressing internal protest, and her conviction that any agreement that leaves the regime intact will simply hand it the resources to attack again — Israel, the Gulf states, and most of all its own people.

    30 min

  3. 11 juni

    'Toxic love story': inside the Trump-Bibi rupture

    Israel strikes Beirut. Iran strikes Israel. Israel strikes Iran. Iran downs a US Apache helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz. The US strikes Iran. All in roughly a week, and all while a 15-year US-Iran nuclear deal was reportedly days away from being signed. In this episode of The Deep Dive, Shifra Jacobs filling in for Jacob Laznik, sits down with Shir Perets, The Jerusalem Post's senior breaking news desk manager, to make sense of one of the most chaotic news weeks since the start of the war. They walk through the sequence that led from a single Israeli airstrike on Beirut to a multi-front exchange of fire that pulled the United States in for the first time in months, and they unpack what the latest round actually reveals: the central tension is no longer between Israel and Iran but between Israel and the United States.

    40 min

  4. 4 juni

    Inside the EU's 'unhealthy obsession' with Israel

    Behind the scenes, the EU is Israel's largest trade partner, 32% of its merchandise trade, and the single biggest funder of Israeli science. In public, 46% of EU institutional statements about Israel since October 7 are negative. In this episode of The Deep Dive, host Jacob Laznik previews findings from a JPPI study with Prof. Sharon Pardo, Jean Monnet Chair of European Studies at Ben-Gurion University. After analyzing 24,000 EU statements, Pardo's team found a sharp gap: harsh public criticism of Israel from EU institutions, paired with continued quiet cooperation from EU member states. By comparison, statements about Qatar, even through the 2022 "Qatargate" bribery scandal, ran 66% positive. Pardo argues European Jewish communities are paying the price for what he calls Israel's "megaphone diplomacy" with the EU, and that Israel has spent three years deserting the relationship it can least afford to lose.

    41 min

  5. 28 maj

    Can Israel elections survive a two-front war?

    He advised Naftali Bennett. He ran strategic engagement at AIPAC. And he now says this is the most extreme government in Israel's history. In this episode of The Deep Dive, host Jacob Laznik talks with Yisrael Klitsner, JPPI fellow, former Diaspora Affairs Advisor to PM Bennett, and former AIPAC strategic engagement director, about whether Israel can run an election in the middle of a two-front war, and whether the US-Israel bond survives the aftermath. Klitsner argues the campaign comes down to "security, security, security," that Netanyahu "single-handedly made Ben-Gvir who he is," and that the widening rift with Diaspora Jewry now boils down to one message from Israel's American partners: "first, do no harm." A mainstream pro-Israel insider's candid read on a country holding an election, fighting its longest war, and trying to hold its global family together at the same time.

    41 min

  6. 21 maj

    Rising antisemitism sparks global concern, from London to New York

    Antisemitism is surging across multiple continents, with incidents in Europe and the US, prompting heightened security measures and public outcry. In London, the Nova Festival exhibition commemorating the October 7 massacre faced police-mandated removal of its exterior signage due to terrorism concerns. Matilda Heller, an antisemitism reporter, emphasized that the exhibition’s challenges reflect broader trends in the UK, where threats from extremist groups and online activism are growing.

    51 min

  7. 14 maj

    How the media failed October 7 victims again

    The week a landmark 300-page report on Hamas's systematic sexual violence against women and children was released, a New York Times opinion piece hijacked the global conversation. Jerusalem Report editor-in-chief Ruth Marks Eglash breaks down what happened, and what it reveals about modern journalism. The Civil Commission's report on October 7 crimes documented not only sexual violence as a deliberate tool of war, but the torture of family members as a mechanism of psychological terror. Yet within hours, the discourse had shifted, deflected by a competing narrative and the media's reflexive return to Israel-Palestine "both sides" framing. As Marks Eglash argues, this isn't accidental: it's a structural failure of how journalism handles asymmetric atrocity. The question she puts on the table: "Is journalism dead?" — is less provocative than it sounds. As editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Report, Marks Eglash brings decades of experience navigating how Israeli and Middle Eastern stories are framed, distorted, and consumed by international audiences. This conversation is essential viewing for anyone trying to understand not just what happened on October 7, but why it remains so difficult to report honestly.

    34 min

  8. 7 maj

    Can anyone actually beat Netanyahu?

    Bennett is climbing in the polls. Lapid agreed to drop to third on the list. Smotrich called partnering with an Arab party worse than October 7. Is Benjamin Netanyahu's nearly 15-year Likud dynasty finally cracking? In this episode of The Deep Dive, Jerusalem Post host Jacob Laznik sits down with Jerusalem Post Knesset and political correspondent Keshet Neev to unpack one of the most consequential weeks in Israeli politics since October 7. Fresh off a one-on-one interview with former prime minister Naftali Bennett, Neev shares what he told her, including his blunt verdict that Israeli transportation is "a third world country" and that National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is "a clown." She breaks down the Bennett-Lapid technical merger, why Lapid stepped aside to make room for Gadi Eisenkot, the AI-generated attack ads now flooding Israeli campaigns, and why Benny Gantz's once-dominant party is "dropping like flies" before a single ballot is cast.

    46 min
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The Deep Dive is The Jerusalem Post's flagship podcast series, hosted by Jacob Laznik.  Each week, we review the top stories, put an up-close lens on a major topic, and dissect the main story of the week. 

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    2025 - 2026
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