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Counterbalance is a Hudson Institute podcast hosted by Senior Fellows Michael Doran and Peter Rough. As America's unipolar moment fades, Rough and Doran explore the emerging global order.
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Founded in 1961 by strategist Herman Kahn, Hudson Institute challenges conventional thinking and helps manage strategic transitions to the future through interdisciplinary studies in defense, international relations, economics, health care, technology, culture, and law. Hudson seeks to guide public policy makers and global leaders in government and business through a vigorous program of publications, conferences, policy briefings, and recommendations.
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Sharing the struggle and the miracle of Israel. The Yishai Fleisher show is a popular English-language podcast exploring Israeli life, politics, and Jewish thought. Drawing on his experience as a journalist, legal and biblical scholar, IDF soldier, and spokesman for the Jewish Community of Hebron, Yishai sheds light on everything from global and Middle East news to weekly Bible/Torah study, health, family, and of course, the amazing rebirth of Israel.
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The Angels with Michael Conniff is a podcast showcasing the journey of angels, venture capitalists, investors, and family offices. Also, check out The Accelerator, the companion podcast from Michael Conniff, aimed at founders, startups, and entrepreneurs.
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OutBüro Voices - In each episode host Dennis Velco has engaging and casual conversations with LGBTQ professionals, entrepreneurs, and community leaders from around the globe. Let's chat, share, learn, grow, and be inspired. together. We’ll explore their career path, inspiration, strategy, startup journey, successes balanced with insights from lessons learned. We’ll also talk with leaders in Diversity and Inclusion and community allies across many sectors with a keen LGBTQ perspective. Join u ...
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Upheaval in the Middle East is being felt everywhere. What must we expect as we enter 2026? War tears some apart as others create surprising ew alliances. In this deep dive, Dr. Michael Doran joins Yishai to unpack the seismic changes defining our era. With decades of experience at the highest levels of strategy, Doran cuts through the noise to rev…
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Chuck Holton is a veteran war correspondent and documentary filmmaker who has reported from some of the world’s most dangerous conflict zones, including Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel. His work focuses on military realities, strategy, and what war actually looks like on the ground. PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://yishaifleisher.com/p…
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Dr. Zeev Maghen is an Israeli scholar and professor of Arabic and Islamic history at Bar-Ilan University, and a senior fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. He’s a leading expert on Revolutionary Iran, Shi’a Islam, and Middle Eastern geopolitics, and the author of books and research on Iran’s political and religious dynamics. PODC…
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Margaret Atwood is a Canadian writer. She has published more than sixty books spanning novels, poetry, short stories, non-fiction, children’s literature, and graphic novels, and has been called “one of the sharpest and most imaginative novelists writing in English”. She is one of only four writers to have won the Booker Prize twice: for The Blind A…
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Holiday Special in secret locked areas under the Temple Mount with Knesset Member Ohad Tal, Mosab Hassan Yousef (Author and Activist) and Yishai. Mosab says "The evidence is overwhelming and ... this is the only way to experience truth." Exclusive new video filmed on location by Joshua Fleisher and Shlomo Weprin. PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: http…
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Charlie Kirk’s Full Speech In Jerusalem. PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://yishaifleisher.com/podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/YishaiFleisherTV SUPPORT & CONNECT: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/yishai Fight4Israel: https://fight4israel.givecloud.co Twitter: https://twitter.com/YishaiFleisher LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.…
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Hamas Of The “West Bank” Planning October 7th Style Attack! PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://yishaifleisher.com/podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/YishaiFleisherTV SUPPORT & CONNECT: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/yishai Fight4Israel: https://fight4israel.givecloud.co Twitter: https://twitter.com/YishaiFleisher LinkedIn: ht…
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The father of an IDF soldier speaking about what happened to his son during combat deep inside the Gaza Strip. PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://yishaifleisher.com/podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/YishaiFleisherTV SUPPORT & CONNECT: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/yishai Fight4Israel: https://fight4israel.givecloud.co Twitt…
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PM Netanyahu and President Trump at Mar-a-Lago take questions on Iran, Gaza, Syria, Judea and Samaria ("West Bank") Malkah joins Yishai to break it all down ... PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://yishaifleisher.com/podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/YishaiFleisherTV SUPPORT & CONNECT: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/yishai Fig…
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Middle East Expert Yoram Ettinger joins Yishai to discuss the current Trump-Netanyahu Meeting happening at Mar-A-Lago. SPONSOR LINKS: Hebron Fund https://hebronfund.org PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://yishaifleisher.com/podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/YishaiFleisherTV SUPPORT & CONNECT: Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/yi…
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Beyond Politics: the fight for Israel's future is at a fork in the road. Which way will the Jewish people go? In Depth interview with Moshe Feiglin - visionary author and maverick Israeli politician. SPONSOR LINKS: The Israel Bible https://theisraelbible.com/ Prohibition Pickle https://www.facebook.com/Prohibitionpickle/ Hebron Fund https://hebronf…
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Gordon Buchanan is a wildlife cameraman and TV presenter. He is best known for the Animal Family & Me series of BBC documentaries in which he gets up close to wild bears, Arctic wolves, elephants and reindeer among other species. Gordon was brought up in Tobermory on the Isle of Mull where he spent his days exploring the island and developed his li…
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SEASON 2025 EPISODE 23: First, Yishai speaks with Melanie Phillips, who delivers a sharp and unsettling analysis of Europe’s unraveling in the face of jihadist influx, elite denial, and cultural collapse — and what that trajectory means for Israel and the Jewish people. Yishai then shifts into a fireside reflection on the transformation from Jacob …
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Sir Salman Rushdie is a writer who has written over 20 books, seven of which have been nominated for the Booker Prize. In 1981 he won with his novel Midnight’s Children which also topped the polls for the 25th and 40th anniversaries of the prize, making it the most lauded novel in Booker history. He was born in Bombay in 1947 and educated at Rugby …
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a computer scientist and the inventor of the World Wide Web. He was born in 1955, a golden year for technology innovators. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were also born in the same year. A curious child, he learned about electronics from his train set and spent his pocket money on transistors. His first significant connecting inve…
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SEASON 2025 EPISODE 22: First, Yishai speaks with Malkah Fleisher about a tweet that stirred up quite a storm among the haters of Israel. The tweet simply suggested that in a time of Mamdani, Jews might consider buying property in the Land of Israel. What’s the sin in that? Then, a powerful — and deeply introspective — conversation with Yair Ansbac…
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Sally Mann is a photographer and a New York Times bestselling writer. She is best known for making large-format black and white photographs of the people and places in her immediate surroundings: her children, her husband, and the rural landscape of her home state and the American South.Sally was born in Lexington, Virginia, the youngest of three c…
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Lorraine Kelly is a journalist and broadcaster who has been a mainstay of daytime television for over 40 years. She has hosted her own show Lorraine since its launch in 2010 and she was awarded a lifetime achievement BAFTA in 2024. Lorraine was born in Glasgow and later moved with her family to the new town of East Kilbride. She became a junior rep…
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Lennie James is a British actor and writer. In 2025, he received the BAFTA for Leading Actor for his portrayal of Barrington Walker in the TV adaptation of Bernadine Evaristo’s novel Mr. Loverman. This award adds to his collection, which also includes accolades for writing. At seventeen, he wrote Trial and Error and won the National Youth Theatre–T…
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Mary Greenwell is a makeup artist who has worked with some of the most famous faces in the world including Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, David Bowie and Cate Blanchett. Her less-is-more approach has won her plaudits in the beauty industry and she became Princess Diana’s makeup artist of choice. Mary was born in Sussex and left school at 16…
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Ronnie Wood is a musician and artist who has been a major player on the UK music scene for over 60 years. In 1975 Ronnie became a member of the Rolling Stones, one of the most influential and enduring bands of the rock era. Ronnie’s parents were born and worked on barges moving cargo up and down the canals between Manchester, Stratford-upon-Avon an…
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Angela Harding is an artist, printmaker and illustrator. Based in Rutland, Angela’s work is inspired by the countryside of the British Isles, and in particular British birds. Alongside her many prints and artistic creations, her award-willing illustrations can be found adorning many a book cover. Angela was born in Stoke-on-Trent in June 1960, the …
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Michael Sheen is an award-winning actor. After finding his love for the stage with the West Glamorgan Youth theatre as a teenager, he studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He spent the 1990s making a name for himself as a stage actor, shining in the classics from Romeo and Juliet to Peer Gynt as well as in 20th century masterpiece…
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SEASON 2025 EPISODE 21: Yishai is back as the new year begins! First, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio visits Jerusalem and blesses the eternal promise of God to the Jewish people. Then, Nick Feuntes has issues with Jews - but in his fear he reveals Israel's strength. Finally, Yishai speaks with with Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli who…
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Maggie Alphonsi is a broadcaster and former rugby player. She was part of the England team which took home the 2014 Women’s Rugby World Cup and by the time she retired she’d won 74 caps for her country. Maggie was brought up in north London and when she was 14 her PE teacher suggested she give the sport of rugby union a try. Maggie joined her local…
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Professor Dame Carol Robinson is a scientist who was the first female professor of Chemistry at both Cambridge and Oxford Universities. She has been awarded scientific prizes from all over the world for her pioneering work studying complex macromolecules using an instrument called the mass spectrometer. Carol was drawn to science as a child growing…
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SEASON 2025 EPISODE 20: Yishai and Malkah are back! First, Israeli children return to school - how will this year go? Then, Yishai fights back against the London Times' blocking the building of Jerusalem, Rabbi Yosef Blau's virtue signaling against Israel, and the Saudis' dissing Qatar but still hating on the Jewish State. Finally, Ben Bresky on th…
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Harry Hill is a comedian, writer and broadcaster best known for presenting popular television shows including You’ve Been Framed, Junior Bake Off and the multi award-winning TV Burp. He was born Matthew Hall in Surrey and brought up in Kent. He became a Cub Scout and got a taste for performing when he was nine after playing Widow Twankey in the Chr…
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Monica Dolan is a BAFTA and Olivier award winning actor. She is equally at home playing a wrongfully accused postmistress in Mr Bates Vs the Post Office as she is playing the serial killer Rosemary West. Alongside her many roles in TV, stage and screen, Monica has also written and performed in her award winning one woman play B*easts. Born in 1969,…
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Gustavo Dudamel is a Venezuelan conductor, violinist and composer. He is known for bringing humour and joy to the podium. He is currently director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra and in 2026 will take up the post of music director of the New York Philharmonic, following in the footsteps of Gustav Mahler and …
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Ash Atalla is a television producer whose first hit was the BBC sitcom The Office, starring Ricky Gervais. He followed it up with the IT Crowd, People Just Do Nothing, Big Boys and Stath Lets Flats. His haul of awards from these programmes include six BAFTAs, four Royal Television Society awards, a Golden Globe and an Emmy. Ash was born in Cairo an…
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Carol Klein is a gardener, broadcaster and longtime contributor to BBC Gardeners’ World. She is a six time Chelsea Flower Show gold medal winner, a certified RHS Horticultural Hero and was awarded the RHS Victoria Medal of Honour. Born in 1945 in Lancashire, Carol was the eldest of three children and her love of gardening was evident when she used …
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Sir Gregory Doran is the former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He spent a total of thirty five years with the RSC directing fifty productions in the UK and abroad. He’s been called “one of the great Shakespeareans of his age” and has won multiple awards for his work. Born in 1958, Greg was brought up near Preston and played a n…
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SEASON 2025 EPISODE 19: First, Yishai sits down with Michoel Weichbrod of the Homeward Bound podcast to tackle tough Zionist questions like IDF morality and Aliyah due to antisemitism. Then, nationalist intellectual Moshe Feiglin joins Yishai discuss how Israel's hold on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is key to winning the Gaza conflict. Finally, Be…
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Norma Percy is a documentary film-maker. She has been making programmes for over three decades and her productions have featured a range of political leaders from Tony Blair and Bill Clinton to Mikhail Gorbachev and Slobodan Milošević. Her film-making method, which she developed alongside her colleague Brian Lapping, tells the stories of our times …
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Lord Alf Dubs is a Labour peer and former MP. He came to the UK from Prague in 1939 on one of the Kindertransport trains organised by Sir Nicholas Winton which rescued mostly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Alf was born in Prague in 1932. His father was from a Jewish background and was brought up in what was then Northern Bohemia…
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Professor Lucy Easthope is an adviser on disaster recovery and planning. She’s an expert in planning for and reacting to major incidents: natural disaster, terrorist attacks, pandemics and fires, and is the visiting Professor of Mass Fatalities and Pandemics at the University of Bath. Born in Merseyside in 1978, Lucy cites the impact of watching th…
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Romesh Ranganathan is a comedian and BAFTA-winning broadcaster who has been a fixture on British television screens for the past decade. In addition to his TV shows and stand-up tours he presents the Weakest Link on BBC One, Radio Two’s Saturday morning show and another weekly Radio Two programme in which he shares his passion for hip hop music. Ro…
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SEASON 2025 EPISODE 18: Yishai and Malkah Fleisher reflect on the battle with Iran's hate regime, with Malkah filling in the perspective of the home front. Then, author Yaakov Katz brings the military perspective to the historic takedown of Iran's nuclear threat. Plus, Yishai translates Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir's words to the Israeli nation: laudi…
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Abdulrazak Gurnah is emeritus Professor of Post-Colonial Literatures at the University of Kent and the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature. Born in Zanzibar in 1948, the second of six children, Abdulrazak grew up in the dying days of the island’s status as a British protectorate before independence was declared in 1963. The revolution which follo…
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Professor Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu is Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience at University College London and President of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. She has devoted her career to harnessing the potential of nanoparticles – which are less than a thousandth of the width of a human hair - to take medicines to hard-to-reach areas of the bod…
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SEASON 2025 EPISODE 17: Yishai and Malkah are back together! First: How did Jihadist bullies stop a big Texas pro-Israel conference from moving forward? Then, Joseph from the Israel Advocacy Movement is talking sense to the bad guys. And, Victory Soldier is taking down Gaza and Jihadism along with it. Plus: Doron Spielman on the miracle discoveries…
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Actor Danny Dyer became a household name when he joined the cast of EastEnders as Mick Carter, landlord of the Queen Victoria pub. He recently stole the show from some stiff competition playing Freddie Jones in the television adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s novel Rivals which won him a Royal Television Society Award for Best Supporting Actor. Danny wa…
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SEASON 2025 EPISODE 16: First, Yishai reviews Prime Minister Netanyahu's message in English after the Washington DC double murder of Israeli Embassy workers. Then, Brigadier General Amir Avivi on Israel's vision for control in Gaza. Plus, Fleisher Family goes berry picking! And finally, Ben Bresky on the miraculous story of the Bat Ayin. SPONSOR LI…
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SEASON 2025 EPISODE 15: Yishai and Malkah drive to the North for Lag BaOmer. Yishai rants about why President Trump favors Qatar. Then: Shabbos Kestenbaum on antisemitism at Harvard. Plus, Monsour Ashkar on the plight of the Druze. Finally: Ben Bresky on the magic of Klezmer music. SPONSOR LINKS: The Israel Bible https://theisraelbible.com/ Prohibi…
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SEASON 2025 EPISODE 14: Happy Israel Independence Day! Yishai is back after his whirlwind tour of the USA with Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir. First, Minister Ben Gvir (with Yishai translating) on Tablet Mag's podcast. Then, Yishai speaks with famed intellectual and anti-Jihad activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. And finally, Ben Bresky on the …
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Lindsey Hilsum is a multi-award-winning journalist who has been a foreign correspondent for the past four decades. She has been Channel 4’s international editor for the past 22 years and has reported on every continent except Antarctica. After studying French and Spanish at University, she worked as an aid worker in Mexico and Kenya before becoming…
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Donna Ockenden is a former clinical midwife who led the Ockenden Review which revealed, at the time, the biggest maternity scandal in NHS history. Published in 2022, the review highlighted serious failings in maternity care at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust which contributed to the deaths of more than 200 babies and nine mothers. Don…
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Professor Carl Jones is a conservation biologist who is best known for saving the Mauritius kestrel from extinction. He is the scientific director of Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, chief scientist at Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and an honorary professor in ecology and conservation biology at the University of East Anglia. He was born in Car…
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SEASON 2025 EPISODE 13: Yishai meets with Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem Arieh King to talk about the Mitzvah of land reclamation and building Jerusalem. Then, Karys Rhea on the problem of the "Woke RIGHT" and anti-Israel agents like Tucker Carlson. Plus, Ben Bresky on Passover traditions, and Rabbi Shimshon Nadel on Passover's purpose. SPONSOR LINKS: T…
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