Netanyahu faces a new opposition party, plus the lives of those liberated from the Nazi camp Bergen-Belsen

Late Night Live — Full program podcast · May 6, 2026 · 54m

The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu may come up against a rightwing-centrist super coalition in elections later this year, after two of his biggest political rivals - former Prime Ministers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid - combined forces to form a new party. Plus, the Australian writer Nadia Wheatley's new book sheds light on the ordeals experienced by prisoners liberated from the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in April 1945.

Guests:

Irris Makler, veteran Middle East correspondent

Nadia Wheatley, writer and historian, author of Strange New World: Belsen's first year of…