Tel Aviv on Edge: Waiting for Iran, Hezbollah Strikes in Lebanon, and Trump’s Tariff Shock — Plus My AI Coding Revelation

Tel Aviv Diary Podcast · Feb 21, 2026 · 31m

Recorded in Tel Aviv on Saturday night, February 21, I try to capture the mood that’s settled over the city—an anxious, pervasive uncertainty as Israelis brace for the possibility of another confrontation with Iran. A month after President Trump publicly encouraged Iranians to take to the streets, Tel Aviv feels tense in a way that’s different even from the Gaza war: people remember last June’s 12-day exchange, the shelters, the missiles that slipped through, and the sense that the next round could again put the center of the country in the crosshairs. You can see it in the streets, in the…