On today’s Israel Uncensored with Josh Hasten an exclusive interview with Dr. Einat Wilf, former member of Knesset, renowned author and leading intellectual. Dr. Wilf has been busy lately explaining why UNRWA should be shut down. The US State Department in fact announced over the weekend that they would stop funding UNRWA, which for 70 years has perpetuated the conflict between Israel and the Arab world. Wilf insists that we need a global campaign against the Arab propaganda which insists on the so-called “right of return,” which she explains doesn’t exist. Wilf doesn’t believe any Arab counties will step in and fund UNRWA as they are not interested in doing so, as they insist the “refugee” issue is a UN problem. In fact those “refugees” Wilf explains don’t even exist as UNRWA has inflated their numbers tremendously by including children and grandchildren of “refugees” under the same umbrella.

Professor Moshe Koppel of the Kohelet Policy Forum wrote the first version of the Nation State Law back in 2004.  He discusses the much misunderstood law with Eve as well as the tremendous and undemocratic influence of Israel’s Supreme Court.  What is being done to modify the damage of Aharon Barak and how are justices selected?  Why doesn’t Israel have a constitution? Hypocrisy is good to acknowledge and it’s time for community leadership to step up. Listen in as a real Libertarian shares his thoughts.

Though the Land of Israel is the hinge around which the Jewish Story turns, there are many Jews  whose future does not lie in Zion. This episode widens the scope of our story to consider the life of Jews in the interwar period, and how they contributed to the nature of Jewishness outside of the Zionist dream.

Are American Jewish leaders deliberately misleading the public when they blame Israeli policies for the widening rift between Israel and progressive, young US Jews to make up for their own failures in reaching out to them? Rabbi David Eliezrie, who is Chabad’s liaison to the American Jewish establishment thinks so, and tells it to their face and to Gil Hoffman on this week’s Inside Israel Today. Eliezrie says the problem is not with the Jewish Nation-State Law or the broken compromise on the Western Wall but with the lack of Jewish education for non-Orthodox Jewish children and follow up programs to Birthright Israel. He also questions whether Reform or Conservative Jewish leaders can still claim to speak for a majority of US Jews due to their dwindling membership. But he gives hope that in Israel, trends are going in a more positive direction.

On today’s Israel Uncensored with Josh Hasten, Josh discusses this past Sunday night’s deadly shooting attack at a video game tournament in Jacksonville, Florida. He says that despite today’s reality, the US still falls short when it comes to placing trained armed guards outside of crowded public gatherings. While Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan announced that more civilians in Israel, specifically thousands of ex-IDF infantry veterans, would qualify to receive weapons licenses, many in the US are advocating to get the guns off the streets. What can the US learn from Israel in this arena?

Ascending the Temple Mount; leading a  peak-of-the-grape-harvest wine tour in the Shomron; studying the height-of-evil Croatian WW2 atrocities; attending a top level course on the Mid East muddle; jumping out of a plane over Israel at 12,000 feet.
Eve files her flight plan of the last 10 days.

Should Israel always sue for peace? While “Shalom” is one of God’s names, are there times when that very word weakens the Jewish people in the face of an implacable enemy? Rabbi Dani Eisenstock joins Rabbi Yishai to discuss the Torah portion of ‘Ki Tetze’ and it’s many commandments including keeping the Jewish army holy and the eternal battle with Amalek

Gil Hoffman and Peggy Cidor, who have been covering the exciting race to succeed Nir Barkat as mayor of Jerusalem for The Jerusalem Post analyze who has the best chance to win the October 30 election. Hoffman provides audio from a political event in the holy city. Cidor, who has been covering municipal politics for 20 years, explains why this election is different than all mayoral races in the city in the past. She also answers what Barkat’s chances are to succeed Benjamin Netanyahu and become prime minister of Israel one day.

On today’s Israel Uncensored with Josh Hasten, an interview with Avi Abelow CEO of 12 Tribe Films, head of the Israel Video Network, and Israelunwired.com. Abelow discusses the upcoming third annual Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation’s “Israel Inspired” Israel Video Network video contest prize ceremony to be held in Jerusalem.  He says that this year’s video entries from all over the world are simply unbelievable. Abelow, who is a top pro-Israel advocate, goes on to discuss the news in Israel, particularly the situation on the border with Gaza.