As a member state of the International Atomic Energy Agency, (IAEA) Iran must declare its nuclear facilities and open them to inspection on demand. It has been doing that regarding many installations but tried to hide an additional four, one of which has since been levelled and sanitized. The IAEA insists on inspecting the other three adamant denial of “any undeclared nuclear materials and activities in Iran” by the country’s Atomic Energy Commission head in Vienna last week – while pointedly sp...
Oct 07, 2022•27 min
More than seven months into Russia’s war in Ukraine it is too early to see its end, but enough time has passed in order to learn preliminary strategic and military lessons. For those of us in the Middle East, it is especially important to apply these emerging lessons to our region in general and most particularly to Syria - where Russia has air and naval assets, out of which it has reinforced its formations in Ukraine, and whose presence bolstering the Assad regime carries a constant risk of fri...
Oct 04, 2022•28 min
Times are tough. Uncertainty plagues the European continent with rapidly soaring energy prices; uncontrollable inflation absent clear directives; a brutal war in Ukraine with no expiration date in-sight for Russia’s prolonged aggression; and a simmering lack of respect for leadership. These concerns raise questions whether those gripping the reins of power throughout European capitals are indeed the right individuals for the tasks ahead. Nonetheless, some glimmers of hope are seemingly emerging ...
Oct 02, 2022•58 min
Jonathan and Yair discuss the Russia-Ukraine war and its implications on Europe and the rest of the world. Analysis also focused on Iran’s influence throughout the Middle East, as well as domestic protests raging in the Islamic Republic. The two call on TV7 viewers to pray for God to bless and direct our leaders across the world. You are welcome to join our audience and watch all of our programs - free of charge! TV7 Israel News: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/563/ Jerusalem Studio: ht...
Oct 02, 2022•28 min
The old Frank Sinatra song Autumn in New York brings the promise of new love - which may often be mingled with pain. Autumn in New York is the annual ritual of the United Nations General Assembly session with heads of states and governments and foreign ministers descending upon the glass house in Manhattan for speeches and meetings. In recent days, the questionable relevance of the UN as a problem-solving mechanism was on display again as delegations grappled with challenges of food, health and ...
Sep 30, 2022•42 min
Israel’s economy has surprisingly withstood the blows striking global commerce and finance in recent years, including COVID-19, uncertainty in the oil market and disruptions in supply chains. But can the Israeli economy thrive when the domestic political scene is perennially unstable, and when individual households complain that they do not reap the fruits of macro-economic success? Panel: - Jonathan Hessen, Host. - Amir Oren, Editor at Large, Host of Watchmen Talk and Powers in Play. - Prof. Ey...
Sep 27, 2022•28 min
Tensions between Israel and Lebanon are on the rise… is Jerusalem heading towards an all-out war with the Iranian proxy Hezbollah terror organization? Join Jonathan and Yair of a discussion on this topic and more. You are welcome to join our audience and watch all of our programs - free of charge! TV7 Israel News: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/563/ Jerusalem Studio: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/18738/ TV7 Israel News Editor’s Note: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/...
Sep 25, 2022•28 min
Please join us for discussion on the latest developments concerning Iran. Other topics include escalating hostilities with Lebanon, and the weakening of power by the Palestinian Authority. Co-Hosts: 1. Amb. Danny Ayalon, Israel's Former Ambassador to the United States and Deputy Foreign Minister & Lecturer at NYU. 2. Col. (Res.) Dr. Eran Lerman, Israel’s Former Deputy National Security Adviser, Vice President of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security and Lecturer at Shalem College...
Sep 24, 2022•28 min
With Israel and Lebanon apparently close to reaching an agreement on dividing the spoils of the sea in the Eastern Mediterranean across from their respective shores; the most tantalizing question is what Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah has in mind when he keeps hurling threats at Israel. Is he really willing to risk dragging his country into a war certain to follow an attack south of the border or west into the gas exploration site, or is he only trying to take credit for Israeli concessions in ...
Sep 23, 2022•27 min
All modern military forces face the dilemma of overkill capabilities. Armies and Air Forces are equipped to clash with their opposite numbers, and in great numbers, under conditions which give rise to indiscriminate targeting. Yet in fighting terrorists sheltered among civilians, hitting innocents is almost unavoidable but still carries a heavy price morally, professionally and diplomatically. The latest episode in this series features American criticism of Israeli rules of engagement in the fig...
Sep 20, 2022•28 min
Jonathan and Yair reveal the truth about the so-called "Occupied Territories” in Israel's Jordan Valley, Judea and Samaria regions. You are welcome to join our audience and watch all of our programs - free of charge! TV7 Israel News: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/563/ Jerusalem Studio: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/18738/ TV7 Israel News Editor’s Note: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/76269/ TV7 Israel: Watchmen Talk: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/76256/ ...
Sep 18, 2022•28 min
In almost every culture one finds the equivalent of the old Proverb: ‘Hope for the best, Prepare for the worst’ - especially in matters of war and peace. It seems to fit the pendulum called the negotiations over the revival of the lapsed JCPOA. Is it on or is it off? And what does one make of the various moves in the Iranian nuclear program and by the administration of US President Joe Biden? Panel: - Host: Amir Oren, Editor at Large, Host of Watchmen Talk and Powers in Play. - TV7 Analyst: Col....
Sep 16, 2022•27 min
The appointment of a new Israel Defense Forces Chief of General Staff is a very important event in the life of this military organization. More than in most Western democracies, Israel’s top General Officer has a major impact on the nation’s policies and conduct. Major General Herzi Halevi, an experienced Paratroop and Intelligence military leader, has earlier this month been nominated to serve as Israel’s 23rd Ramatkal, or Chief of General Staff, taking over at the turn of the year. How signifi...
Sep 13, 2022•27 min
Jonathan and Yair dig deeper into the potential revival of the nuclear deal with Iran and discuss the importance of seeking the truth. The two also speak about the journalistic processes by which we work here at TV7 Israel News. You are welcome to join our audience and watch all of our programs - free of charge! TV7 Israel News: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/563/ Jerusalem Studio: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/18738/ TV7 Israel News Editor’s Note: https://www.tv7israelnews....
Sep 11, 2022•27 min
Yair and Monika host Joshua and Anastasiya Gooding, Prayer and Director and Coordinator for the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem. The four discuss the meaning of the God’s Feasts, and the opportunity they present us to meet with him personally. You are welcome to join our audience and watch all of our programs - free of charge! TV7 Israel News: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/563/ Jerusalem Studio: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/18738/ TV7 Israel News Editor’s Note: h...
Sep 11, 2022•28 min
To deal or not to deal? That is still the question, as Iran seems to try to squeeze yet more concessions out of the Biden administration, which is obviously eager to revive the 2015 nuclear deal (or JCPOA) but can only go so far in the face of strong Congressional opposition to meeting voracious demands out of Tehran. Playing hard to get is of course a common negotiating tactic, but with the game long into stoppage time, there is growing doubt whether the Ayatollah regime in Tehran can make an u...
Sep 09, 2022•28 min
While senior Israeli officials keep trying to stop - or at least amend - the American tendency to renew the nuclear deal with Iran, Jerusalem and Washington are on the same page regarding the determination to fight Iran’s aggressive moves in the Middle East. Iranian forces and proxies in Syria and elsewhere pose continuous danger to both Israel’s territory and American troops. Either each on its own, or in various forms of cooperation, the Israel Defense Forces and the U.S. Central Command have ...
Sep 06, 2022•28 min
Jonathan and Yair discuss the nuclear deal with Iran, as well as its effects on the Middle East and the world. Reasons for perusing an agreement by the US leadership are explained by Jonathan. The two encourage all of our viewers to communicate messages of support and evaluation of decisions by their leaders, and most importantly to pray for them. You are welcome to join our audience and watch all of our programs - free of charge! TV7 Israel News: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/563/ Je...
Sep 04, 2022•28 min
Jonathan and Amir discuss current events in light of biblical prophecies. In this episode, they analyze revival of the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, and how it may affect Israel and the Middle East. You are welcome to join our audience and watch all of our programs - free of charge! TV7 Israel News: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/563/ Jerusalem Studio: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/18738/ TV7 Israel News Editor’s Note: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/76269/ TV7 ...
Sep 04, 2022•28 min
Please join host Amir Oren for the second of a two-part interview with Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Dr. Ephraim Lapid, who has spent decades on several sides of the quest for defense information. His early career brought him up the ranks of the IDF Intelligence Corps on collection and production assignments. Lapid was appointed to senior positions in the Israel National Sigint Unit 8200, and later the commander of the Open Source Unit. After promotion to Brigadier General, he served as the Israel Defense S...
Sep 03, 2022•28 min
Last October, it seemed that at long last Iraq was on the verge of having a somewhat stable multi-confessional government, which would take care of the country’s domestic problems free of manipulation efforts neighboring Iran. This was good news to the Biden administration, because it showed that even after the end of America’s military involvement - or because of it - a more democratic Iraq able to resist Iranian domination could emerge. But these expectations were soon shattered, when personal...
Sep 02, 2022•28 min
As soon as Benjamin Netanyahu vacated the Prime Minister’s office 14 months ago, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan moved to unfreeze his nation’s relations with Israel. When then-Foreign Minister Yair Lapid failed to respond to Ankara’s advance, Erdogan outflanked him and found a warm welcome in Jerusalem’s non-executive presidency, eventually bringing around Lapid and the Alternate Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. Now another step up the ladder was marked, with Erdogan and Lapid announcing ...
Aug 30, 2022•27 min
Jonathan and Yair delve deeply into the nuclear agreement with Iran, exploring the history of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), its flaws and how its renewal may affect Israel and the Middle East. You are welcome to join our audience and watch all of our programs - free of charge! TV7 Israel News: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/563/ Jerusalem Studio: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/18738/ TV7 Israel News Editor’s Note: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/serie...
Aug 28, 2022•28 min
Please join us for discussion on the latest developments concerning negotiations by world powers to finalize a new nuclear agreement with Iran. Other topics include the maritime dispute and a potential escalation of hostilities between Israel and Lebanon over natural gas reservoirs, Jerusalem’s normalization of diplomatic relations with Ankara and the recent regional visit by US President Joe Biden. Co-Hosts: 1. Amb. Danny Ayalon, Israel's Former Ambassador to the United States and Deputy Foreig...
Aug 27, 2022•28 min
Just like the status of “threshold nuclear weapon state,” to which Iran evidently aspires before the final dash towards the weapon itself, there is apparently a new phenomenon in global diplomacy - a threshold nuclear agreement. With the essentially revoked JCPOA ever closer to a revival but not across the finish line, Iran is surely but slowly advances towards a worrisome capability in several dimensions. This is of course a bargaining tactic, but as time goes by it has practical consequences. ...
Aug 26, 2022•27 min
Israel’s two Palestinian fronts - at its center in Jerusalem and the West Bank, and in the southwest with Gaza - have been relatively quiet over the last two weeks, save for the occasional terror attack or incident. Danger seems to lurk in the north - including in Syria, where Iran proactively seeks to entrench militarily, and Lebanon where the Iranian-proxy Hezbollah is determined to claim its position as the country’s arbiter. Which of the two are more severe – and are we to expect a possible ...
Aug 23, 2022•27 min
Yair and Jonathan dig deeper into the normalizations of relations we see between Turkey and Israel, what the development signifies and how it affects the region. You are welcome to join our audience and watch all of our programs - free of charge! TV7 Israel News: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/563/ Jerusalem Studio: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/18738/ TV7 Israel News Editor’s Note: https://www.tv7israelnews.com/vod/series/76269/ TV7 Israel: Watchmen Talk: https://www.tv7isr...
Aug 21, 2022•28 min
Please join host Amir Oren for the first of a two-part interview with Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Dr. Ephraim Lapid, who has spent decades on several sides of the quest for defense information. His early career brought him up the ranks of the IDF Intelligence Corps on collection and production assignments. Lapid was appointed to senior positions in the Israel National Sigint Unit 8200, and later the commander of the Open Source Unit. After promotion to Brigadier General, he served as the Israel Defense Sp...
Aug 20, 2022•28 min
The haggling over the revival of the dormant JCPOA is over, at least according to the Biden administration. For the last five months, a formula has been on the table at the Vienna Talks, and it is time for political decisions in Tehran and Washington. The Khomeini regime may wish to wait a little longer for the mid-term elections in the United States to make sure that Joe Biden is strong enough to carry through the deal in Congress - and that Donald Trump is not coming back in 2025 to withdraw f...
Aug 19, 2022•28 min
The recent focus on Russia’s war against Ukraine and China’s militant move against a perceived threat to the status quo in Taiwan reflect a reality envisioned several years ago in American defense planning - the world has reverted to a game of nations. States and governments, not movements and organizations, operate and interact. This is why the recent targeted killing of al-Qaeda leader Ayman a-Zawahiri at his Kabul apartment seemed like a relic from a bygone area. But is that really so, has th...
Aug 16, 2022•27 min
