Israel: Behind the Headlines

03/08/2026
60 min
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How is Israel understood abroad, and why does its portrayal so often diverge from the view inside the country itself? Two of Israel’s most incisive commentators, Matti Friedman and Anshel Pfeffer, explore the fault lines between foreign reporting and on-the-ground reality. In conversation with journalist Jenni Fraser, they examine how global coverage of Israel is shaped, and often warped, asking what this means for public understanding, for Jewish communities worldwide, and for the future of honest reporting.

About the speakers

Matti Friedman

Matti Friedman is an award-winning journalist and author. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Tablet, Smithsonian, and elsewhere. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and have won the Natan Prize, the Canadian Jewish Book Award, the Sami Rohr Prize, and the ALA’s Sophie Brody Medal. […]

Jenni Frazer

Jenni Frazer is an award-winning journalist who now freelances for a number of publications. She spent three years in Israel on assignment.

Anshel Pfeffer

Anshel Pfeffer a senior writer and columnist for Haaretz as well as the paper’s Judaism editor. He is also the Israel correspondent for The Economist and The Times and a columnist of the oldest Jewish newspaper in the world, The Jewish Chronicle. His last book, Bibi – The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu, was published in 2018 to […]

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Israel: Behind the Headlines

03/08/2026
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60 min

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Matti Friedman

Matti Friedman is an award-winning journalist and author. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Tablet, Smithsonian, and elsewhere. His...

Jenni Frazer

Jenni Frazer is an award-winning journalist who now freelances for a number of publications. She spent three years in Israel on assignment.

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Anshel Pfeffer

Anshel Pfeffer a senior writer and columnist for Haaretz as well as the paper’s Judaism editor. He is also the Israel correspondent for The...