LET'S GET LIT: The war that reunited and divided

Journalist and author Yossi Klein Halevi joins TLV1 ahead of Jerusalem Day to talk about Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided A Nation, winner of the National Jewish Book Award.

From Mississippi Hill Country to Tel Aviv

The Cedric Burnside Project is in town, treating audiences across Israel to their distinctive Mississippi blues. Cedric Burnside and guitarist Trenton Ayers join TLV1 in the studio for an unplugged jam session and interview.

Ilene In: On the tsunami headed Israel’s way

It looks like a diplomatic tsunami is headed Israel’s way, with further movement this week by the Vatican and the EU towards recognition of a Palestinian state. What Israel could really use now is a good foreign minister to diffuse things...

View from Vienna: A conversation with Hannah Lessing

Hannah Lessing, Secretary General of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria and the daughter of Holocaust survivors, talks to TLV1 about her 20-year effort to get Austria to come to terms with its past, and about anti-Semitism in Europe today.

Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Al Quds

Ir Amim, an organization that aims to make Jerusalem a more equitable and sustainable city, asked the high court this week to prevent groups of religious nationalists from marching through the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, but was rejected.

Music:

Matisyahu - Jerusalem
Meir Banai - Sha'ar HaRachamim
Alpha Blondy - Jerusalem
Hadag Nachash - Jerusalem
Fairouz - Al-Quds
The Cedric Burnside Project - Come On In