Israel Story with Mishy Harman & Yochai Maital

Ever since the start of the war, the Israel Story team has been crisscrossing the country and collecting testimonies because they believe people around the world must know what is going on. The result is “Wartime Diaries” – a series of raw audio ‘postcards’ that highlight the voices the producers of the show are hearing among and around them. These voices include families of hostages, victims and survivors of the carnage, leaders of inspiring civil society initiatives, members of typically sidelined populations like Bedouin and Druze citizens of Israel, foreign workers, poets, rock stars, farmers, and many more. At a time when news outlets and social media feeds are saturated with ungodly images and incomprehensible statistics, Israel Story has diligently tried to capture day-to-day reality, or slivers of life, during the war.

Israel Story was the country’s first major podcast and has for the last 13 years modeled a different way of understanding reality in Israel. By telling human-interest stories that profile a broad spectrum of Israelis, we wish to promote a greater awareness and appreciation of the country’s nuances and complexities. Throughout more than 250 episodes in Hebrew and English, Israel Story has emerged as the largest and most listened-to Jewish podcast worldwide, with thousands of listeners tuning in from over 190 countries.