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Sirens Interrupt the Conversation as Yair Zivan on War, Leadership, Diplomacy, and Israel’s Future
In today’s Tel Aviv Diary podcast, Marc Schulman is joined by Yair Zivan, Israeli-born communications strategist, former adviser and spokesperson to Shimon Peres and Yair Lapid, and one of the sharper centrist voices in Israeli public life. Their conversation unfolds in real time under fire, with sirens interrupting the interview and sending Marc to shelter before they resume. That interruption becomes part of the story itself: a reminder that for Israelis, the war is not an abstraction, but a daily reality measured in seconds to shelter, shattered apartments, canceled flights, and the…
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