Episode #6
Coronavirus and Jewish Life in Israel
Ben Caspit speaks with former Labor Party leader Isaac “Bougie” Herzog, who is now serving as the head of the Jewish Agency for Israel, the largest Jewish nonprofit organization focused on the diaspora and the ‘Aliyah’, meaning the immigration of Jewish people to Israel.
Herzog talks to Ben about how coronavirus has changed the landscape for Aliyah, as well as the way Jewish festivities operate in a pandemic.
Related links:
- Emigrants abandon life abroad, flock home to Israel
- With children infected by coronavirus, Israel fears second wave
- Israel weighs strategic implications of coronavirus crisis
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