Show overview
What Matters Now has been publishing since 2024, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 123 episodes. That works out to roughly 80 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 32 min and 44 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language News show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 5 days ago, with 36 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Times of Israel Podcasts.
Episodes
123
Running
2024–2026 · 2y
Median length
38 min
Cadence
Weekly
From the publisher
A weekly exploration of one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World right now.
Latest Episodes
View all 123 episodesYohanan Plesner: 3 existential issues facing Israel’s voters
Sep 10, 202644 min
Jonathan Greenblatt: Surging antisemitism brings ADL to a moment of reckoning
Sep 3, 202645 min
Yossi Klein Halevi: Why Jewish extremism is so seductive - and dangerous
Aug 19, 202657 min
Richard Priem: The ‘age of security’ has ended for US Jews
Aug 12, 202643 min
Dan Ben-David: Israel is on the brink of a spiral of collapse
Aug 5, 202651 min
Shlomit Ravitsky Tur-Paz: Nothing is black and white in Israel's religious societies
Jul 29, 202645 min
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Hamas still holds two million hostages
Jul 22, 202649 min
Haviv Rettig Gur: Why is Israel still the first campaign stop for wannabe US presidents?
Jul 14, 202647 min
Dr. Deborah Gilboa: The neuroscience of resilience
Jul 10, 202634 min
Michael Solomonov and Steve Cook: The Israeli food we serve tells our story
Jul 1, 202649 min
Etgar Keret: Celebrated author feels the world is losing its story
Jun 24, 202622 min
Naftali Bennett: This existential moment
Jun 17, 202648 min
Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler: How AI is poisoning the information well
Jun 9, 202644 min
Matti Friedman: As Israel plays king of the castle in Lebanon, what's its endgame?
Jun 2, 202638 min
Dara Horn: The answer to the Jewish question
May 27, 202652 min
Yishai Ishi Ron: Ex-commando writes novels about trauma and recovery
May 19, 202644 min
Michael Wegier: British Jews aren't living in fear, but they're certainly anxious
May 14, 202637 min
Cochav Elkayam-Levy: Hamas weaponized rape and humiliation on Oct. 7
May 12, 202636 min
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Israel has re-embraced Hamas rule in Gaza
May 5, 202645 min
Haviv Rettig Gur: Political footballs and politicians' fumbles
Apr 29, 202649 min
2026 Times of Israel Podcasts