(Sponsored) When a bus breaks down off an Israeli highway and leaves its passengers stranded, Emily, an American journalism student, decides to put her skills to the test...much to the chagrin of her fellow travelers. As she eventually coaxes each person to share their story, Emily uncovers the rich and complex history that every Israeli holds. Each episode is a deep dive into a new character’s world; from Morocco to Russia, all paths lead to Israel in this narrative style pod brought to you by ...
Aug 12, 2022•39 min
Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/2njb *** In May 1997, something happened that would change the relationships between humans and computers forever. A game of chess was played, but it wasn’t just a regular game. On one side was Gary Kasparov - the undeniable Chess Master of the world. On the other side a bunch of 1’s and 0’s, aka Deep Blue, IBM’s computer that was developed with one purpose, and one purpose only - to beat Kasparov in chess. And it happened. Deep Blue won ⅗-⅖ after a match o...
Aug 09, 2022•58 min
On February 24th, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine and set the entire world on course for turmoil. Even today, every single day, about 200 Ukrainians die every day, in a war that no one seems to know how or when it will end. With casualties in the tens of thousands, more than 10 million Ukrainian refugees fled their homes. Those who have stayed continue to suffer from a daily dose of deadly rocket fire, hitting without any warning and causing severe casualties. Among the masses that fled, was Rabbi ...
Jul 29, 2022•47 min
Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/2njb *** Naor and Eytan talk about current events in Israel and the world!
Jul 18, 2022•59 min
Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/2njb *** Let me ask you a question: if you checked showtimes for movies in your area at any given moment over the past decade, which type of movie would you almost certainly see on the list? That’s right, a superhero movie. But not just any superhero movie. A Marvel superhero movie. Marvel has produced and released around 30 films since 2007, grossing almost 30 billion dollars! But this empire of film didn’t start as an empire. It all started with a man nam...
Jul 16, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/2njb *** For 74 years Israel has been a beacon of progression, economic success and democracy in the harsh and ruthless land that is called the Middle East. As former PM Ehud Barak once said - ‘a villa in the jungle’. But as you plunge head-first into the history of Israel and the Jewish people, you come to the realization that our thriving economy and democracy isn’t obvious at all. In fact, in 1948, when the State of Israel was established, there ...
Jul 04, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/2njb *** When you think about Tel Aviv, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? The beautiful beaches? Rothschild boulevard? The luxurious Neve Tzedek neighborhood? All of the above? It’s hard to imagine, but until not too long ago Tel Aviv wasn’t the trendy, touristy, attractive city that it's become. It took a lot of work to make it what it is today. So, how did it happen? Today we have with us just the man who can tell us the story of Tel Aviv. A man ...
Jun 29, 2022•1 hr 2 min
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Jun 29, 2022•2 min
This is not a drill: Israel is going to elections. No, you’re not listening to a rerun episode from 2021, 2020 or 2019. It’s actually happening again, after the Bennet-Lapid government - which only withheld for a single year - dissipated into the abyss. Meanwhile, in Europe, it isn’t too boring either. Russia’s war against Ukraine slowly continues, heavily funded by EU taxpayer’s money; Inflation is sky-rocketing; And the strongest country in the Union, Germany, is arming up, as Germany’s new Ch...
Jun 23, 2022•54 min
Bitcoin. Blockchain. Crypto. NFT. For most of us, these are all just synonyms for "get rich quick!" But apparently, there's actually something more to them. Or is there? That's a heated debate in today's financial and economical spheres. Are these actual, solid financial assets or hyped-up memes that are drawing huge amounts of money into an ever expanding bubble? In order to understand that, we need to understand what these things are in the first place. What is crypto currency? What is Blockch...
Jun 16, 2022•57 min
Eytan and Naor are deep-diving heads first into recent events!
Jun 06, 2022•1 hr 9 min
China. Just saying the name of this country is enough to spark debate in most Western circles. On the one hand, modern China is the antithesis to the Individualism of the West. The vast 9.5 million square kilometers is home to almost 20% of the world’s population, all strictly ruled by an authoritarian Communist regime. On the other hand, China is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, growing an average of about 10% per year for the past 3 decades! Many of the things you own, almost...
May 25, 2022•1 hr 6 min
One of the fundamental questions that divide the right and left today, all over the world, is the question of agency. Are we in control of our lives? Or are our lives playing out some deterministic script? Are we non-playing characters in a reality-sized computer game? More than 200 episodes ago, we hosted Dr. Yaron Brook, Chairman of the Board of the Ayn Rand Institute, on the podcast. One of the central tenets of Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism is that we are not NPCs in some video game. ...
May 12, 2022•1 hr 18 min
Naor and Eytan talk about recent events, including the terror wave, Roe V. Wade and more! Please note: This episode contains profanities.
May 06, 2022•1 hr 16 min
The New York Times has never been a great friend of the Jewish People. 80 years ago, for example, during the Holocaust, what was arguably the most important American outlet didn’t do much to expose its readers to the atrocities that led to the Holocaust, nor the atrocity of the Holocauset itself. What’s even more amazing, is that the publisher of the NYT during that period was a Jew - Arthur Hays Sulzberger. In modern times, it seems like the Times constantly takes the pro-Palestinian angle, eve...
May 03, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Naor and Eytan talk about the Conflict on an interview for Warren Redlich of The Daily Lie Podcast. Enjoy!
Apr 30, 2022•1 hr 2 min
We are sponsored by Masa Israel, check them out at https://masaisrael.org *** More than 5 years ago, in November 2016 - before the world turned upside down - Doron Nir was our first guest ever on the podcast. Doron was - and still is - an entrepreneur as well as one of Israel’s podcasting pioneers. Ever since that legendary episode, Doron went on to found Stream Elements, which is now one of the fastest growing, most promising, new Israeli startups in the world. Stream Elements is a platform for...
Apr 26, 2022•1 hr 6 min
We are sponsored by Masa Israel, check them out at http://masaisrael.org *** Israel is currently in the midst of a deadly Palestinian terror wave, the likes of which we haven’t seen for years. 14 lives of innocent civilians have already been lost, in 4 terror attacks - all in less than a month. In the meantime, merely 10 months after Bennet’s government came to be, its foundations are already crumbling. A few days ago, Bennet lost his coalition’s majority in the Israeli parliament - the Knesset ...
Apr 11, 2022•1 hr 15 min
We are sponsored by Masa Israel, check them out at https://masaisrael.org *** In February 2022, U.S. inflation rose to a 40-year peak - a staggering 7.9 percent. Which means that every month, your dollar can buy less and less and less. This, combined with the rising prices of both energy and other commercial goods - may lead to an economic disaster, possibly more severe than anyone can imagine. The markets haven’t been doing so well either, and in the past several months - it seems - most of the...
Apr 06, 2022•1 hr 6 min
We are sponsored by Masa Israel, check them out at http://masaisrael.org *** Your monthly dose of Naor and Eytan is finally here! Tune in for unimportant opinions about recent events. WARNING: Do not listen to this episode if you're not high or lightly drunk.
Apr 03, 2022•1 hr 20 min
We are sponsored by Masa Israel, check them out at https://masaisrael.org *** For the last year, ever since Joe Biden became president of the United States, there’s been a tremendous effort on the part of the US to renew the deal between them and Iran. To rejoin the JCPOA. To revive the dying legacy of Biden’s former boss and ideological forefather, President Barack Obama. How much will the US be willing to concede? How likely is it that a deal will ultimately be signed? And will such a deal sto...
Mar 28, 2022•1 hr 24 min
We are sponsored by Masa Israel, check them out at https://Masaisrael.org *** Last year we interviewed mountain climber Daniel Wolfson twice - once, before her long-awaited journey to be the first Israeli woman to climb mount Everest, and then again, right after she climbed its peak. Her breathtaking stories inspired us, as they inspire thousands of Israeli men and women, who come to Daniel’s lectures to hear her swashbuckling tales. Well, now she’s done it again. This time, Daniel climbed the p...
Mar 14, 2022•1 hr 7 min
We are also sponsored by Masa Israel, check them out at https://Masaisrael.org *** Today, there’s hardly a subject that isn’t considered controversial. But long long ago, in a galaxy far far away, the most controversial topic was a little thing known as Climate Change. Actually, they called it Global Warming then. Point is, the question of how we as humans are affecting the climate of our planet and what we should do about it, and when, is a hot topic. So hot that representatives of 197 parties ...
Feb 21, 2022•1 hr 17 min
We are sponsored by Masa Israel, check them out at http://Masaisrael.org *** Naor and Eytan talk about recent events in Israel and around the world!
Feb 15, 2022•1 hr 8 min
We are also sponsored by Masa Israel, check them out at https://Masaisrael.org *** During the week of Passover in 2002, a young Israeli-Arab walked into the Matza restaurant in Haifa and blew himself up, killing 16 Israelis and wounding many more. The terrorist was the son of a Palestinian from Jenin who was married to an Israeli-Palestinian woman from Northern Israel. This week the Knesset is scheduled to vote on one of the most impactful laws legislated in recent years, a law that could breach...
Feb 07, 2022•1 hr 7 min
We are also sponsored by Masa Israel, check them out at https://Masaisrael.org *** There are few people on this planet as industrious and creative as our guest today. After making Aliyah from South Africa in 1956 with his wife, he had several less than successful business ventures including a bicycle factory and a cow farm. But these did not deter Morris Kahn. Morris Kahn went on to found Golden Pages Israel, Amdocs and of course SpaceIL, which launched Beresheet to the moon in 2019. Kahn has de...
Feb 01, 2022•55 min
This episode is sponsored by the Podcast “Thirty Six” With Justin Hayet! Listen on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/0zlLptB6swtpqPjkTe8ovV?si=768565f9b5fc463a *** We are also sponsored by Masa Israel, check them out at http://Masaisrael.org *** This weekend, two earthquakes hit Israel. Luckily, they weren’t too strong - only 4 the Richter scale. They were nothing compared to the level 10 earthquake that hit the news. In a series of articles published...
Jan 24, 2022•1 hr 4 min
This episode is sponsored by the Podcast “Thirty Six” With Justin Hayet! Listen on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0zlLptB6swtpqPjkTe8ovV?si=0244cb565b684acc *** We are also sponsored by Masa Israel, check them out at https://Masaisrael.org *** 6,000,000. A number that resonates with us all. A sum that represents the endless sea of horrors, atrocities and tragedies. Entire worlds that crumbled, infinite realities that ceased to be. 6,000,000 is a s...
Jan 21, 2022•48 min
This episode is sponsored by Masa Israel, check them out at http://Masaisrael.org *** Eytan and Naor talk about Eytan's trip to the States, Covid, Emma Watson, Arabic and much more!
Jan 12, 2022•54 min
*THIS EPISODE CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT* *** This episode is sponsored by Masa Israel, check them out at https://Masaisrael.org *** Marriage and relationships have never been easy. Since the day Abraham told his beloved wife Sarah he wants to have an open relationship - millions of couples have had to navigate the stormy waters of intimacy. And although throughout history, maintaining a relationship was never easy - doing so in the 21st century brings along its own unique set of challenges. In t...
Dec 30, 2021•1 hr 4 min
