The Sermon on the Mount Herzl

Not in Heaven · Nov 10, 2023 · 58m

If you'd asked Diaspora Jews earlier this year, in the wake of the mass protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial reforms, how they felt about their relationship to the Jewish state, an unusually high number would have said something along the lines of "fraught". Indeed, the rift caused by Israel's latest right-wing governing coalition sparked fervent international debate—until the Hamas massacre on Oct. 7, 2023.

So now that Israel is settling into what could become a long-term engagement in Gaza, it's worth asking how that international relationship has changed…