Tel Aviv Diary Podcast
de Marc Schulman
The Speaker’s Chair and the Iran Window, with Ehud Haik
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Twice weekly, Marc Schulman shares sharp, pragmatic insights into Israeli affairs and global tech—drawing on decades as a Newsweek columnist and Apple developer.
Veteran journalist and historian Marc Schulman offers sharp, unfiltered insight into current events in Israel. An American-born commentator who has lived in Israel on and off since 1975, Marc wrote a long-running weekly column on Israel for Newsweek and brings decades of deep engagement with Israeli politics, society, and history. His perspective is iconoclastic, pragmatic, and often challenges conventional narratives.
Each episode combines personal observations with sharp political analysis, covering everything from the weekly rallies at Hostage Square to the intricate negotiations surrounding ceasefire deals. Marc doesn't shy away from difficult topics—whether it's critiquing government policies, analyzing the military draft controversy, or exploring the broader implications of regional conflicts with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran.
Beyond Middle Eastern affairs, the podcast ventures into global politics, economics, and emerging technology, examining how international developments impact daily life in Israel. From trade policy critiques to AI's revolutionary impact on truth and reality, Marc brings a historian's perspective to contemporary events.
Tel Aviv Diary is essential listening for anyone seeking an authentic, ground-level view of Israeli society during wartime—complete with the frustrations, hopes, and hard truths that come with living through historic events as they unfold. Raw, honest, and deeply personal, each episode captures the weight of the moment while grappling with questions that extend far beyond Israel's borders.
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- The Speaker’s Chair and the Iran Window, with Ehud Haik · 50 minEhud Haik, a longtime friend from the world of intelligence and a recovering lawyer, joins me on Thursday evening, the day President Herzog finished consultations and Gadi…
- From Yom Kippur to October 7: Yossi Klein Halevi on a Nation in Shock · 45 minMarc Schulman and Yossi Klein Halevi first met more than 50 years ago at a demonstration in Washington, where both were arrested. Less than a week after Israel’s election…
- Fear won the vote, and Netanyahu still lost his majority · 32 minNetanyahu’s coalition walked into this election with 68 seats and walked out with 53. The opposition holds the majority. Yet the night felt like a defeat, because the Likud…
- Two days to the vote: Iran, sanctions and the families’ demand · 23 minIn a solo episode recorded the Sunday after his daughter’s wedding, Marc Schulman looks at a week that turned from quiet to crowded with news, two days before Israel votes. Marc…
- Can Israel Imagine a Future Beyond War? With Emmanuelle Elbaz-Phelps · 44 minAfter October 7 and years of war, can Israelis envision a different future—and who is offering a credible path toward it? Journalist Emmanuelle Elbaz-Phelps, Israel correspondent…
- From the Cockpit to the Knesset: Nimrod Sheffer on Fixing a Broken State · 40 minMaj. Gen. (res.) Nimrod Sheffer spent 37 years in uniform — fighter pilot, squadron commander, head of Air Force operations, Chief of Air Staff — then four years as head of the…
- The blockade, the midterms and Iran’s permanent revolution with Dr. Meir Javedanfar · 24 minDr. Meir Javedanfar was born in Tehran and left at 14, a year after his bar mitzvah. He has written about Iran since 2005 and has taught contemporary Iranian studies at Reichman…
- Remember October 7th Three Years Later · 28 minOctober 6th used to belong to the Yom Kippur War. This year it falls between the government’s official October 7th memorial, held on the Hebrew date, and the ceremonies the…
- After the Flydubai Attack: Israel Heads Toward an Election: as America Faces Its Own Reckoning · 29 minMarc Schulman returns to Tel Aviv after two weeks in the United States to a country already focused on the October 27 election—and still absorbing the extraordinary attempted…
- Replacing size with speed: the Israeli company reinventing the speaker · 23 minFor 150 years, every speaker ever built has worked the same way. Alexander Graham Bell put a membrane in a telephone, the membrane moved air, and we heard sound. Everything since…
- Inside Naftali Bennett’s Plan for Israel: Jeremy Saltan on Education, Haredi Service and the Coming Election · 50 minMarc Schulman sits down with Jeremy Saltan, a candidate on Naftali Bennett’s list, for a detailed conversation about what Bennett and his party would actually do if returned to…
- Israel’s Arab Citizens at a Crossroads: Integration, Crime, Politics—and the Search for a Shared Future · 49 minIn this Rosh Hashanah edition of the Tel Aviv Diary Podcast, Marc Schulman welcomes back Professor Yitzhak Reiter, one of Israel’s leading experts on Arab-Jewish relations, for a…
- Between Hope & Fear: What Israel’s Past Teaches Us and Why AI’s Future Frightens Me · 28 minHere is the report by the chief scientist of Open AI that I reference in the episode. https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss…
- Launch Day: Thirty-Three Years, Year by Year: Why I Wrote Between Hope and Fear · 32 minLaunch day. Instead of the usual news, Marc Schulman talks about the book he has just published — 33 years of Israeli history, from Oslo through the war, told year by year. He…
- From Israel’s War of Independence to Ukraine: Jeffrey Weiss on History, Russia and Israel’s Strategic Future · 33 minIn this episode of the Tel Aviv Diary Podcast, Marc Schulman speaks with author and historian Jeffrey Weiss about the past—and what it may tell us about Israel’s future. Weiss…
- Israel’s Demographic Time Bomb: Prof. Dan Ben-David on the Economic and Educational Crisis · 37 minIn this episode of the Tel Aviv Diary Podcast, I speak with economist Professor Dan Ben-David, head of the Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, about what he sees as…
- Israel in August: Likud’s Primary, the Election Ahead, Iran’s Uncertainty—and the AI Revolution · 32 minIsrael may be experiencing the traditional August slowdown, but beneath the surface, very little is truly quiet. In this episode of Tel Aviv Diary, Marc Schulman looks at where…
- Israel at the Breaking Point: Iran, Netanyahu, Trump and the Election That Could Change Everything | Dan Perry · 39 minIsrael has spent weeks living with a question that has become part of everyday life: What happens tonight? Will Iran attack? Will there be another escalation? Can people fly?…
- Israel at a Crossroads: Trump, Iran, Elections, and the Future of Zionism | Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn · 38 minn this episode of Tel Aviv Diary, I am joined by historian and author Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn., whose work explores Zionism, Israeli society, the settlement movement, and the…
- The Calm Before Another Storm? Israel, Iran, Elections, and the Future of AI · 35 minThis week on Tel Aviv Diary, Marc Schulman returns with a wide-ranging solo episode examining the forces shaping Israel, the United States, and the rapidly changing world of…
