The Israelis

Yossi Klein Halevi and Mohammad Darawshe have been shaped by their conversations about the country they call home. The spoke to Hadassah's The Branch podcast about their friendship.
Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is co-host, together with Donniel Hartman, of the Hartman Institute’s podcast, “For Heaven’s Sake” – the number one Jewish podcast in the English-speaking world. Halevi’s 2013 book, “Like Dreamers,” won the Jewish Book Council’s Everett Book of the Year Award. His latest book, “Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor,” is a New York Times bestseller and has appeared in a dozen languages.

Israeli author Yossi Klein Halevi and Mohammad Darawshe, a founder of the Arab Israeli Ma’an party, are longtime friends. As intellectuals, they’ve both been shaped by their many conversations — and occasional disagreements — about the country they both call home. The two have been discussing issues around Arab and Jewish identity in Israel for years and are currently both fellows at the Shalom Hartman Institute. They spoke to Hadassah’s The Branch podcast about their friendship.

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