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Is a 3rd round of war with Iran now inevitable?

After two wars, a failed agreement, and months of uneasy calm, the U.S. and Iran may once again be on the brink of direct conflict. Amit Segal and Nadav Eyal join Dan to assess why the US-Iran MOU has collapsed, would Israel’s military take part in it, what a 3rd round of fighting could look like, and how elections in both Israel and the United States could shape the decisions ahead.

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In this episode:

- Why the US-Iran agreement collapsed

- What a third war with Iran could look like

- Would Netanyahu strike Iran again?

- How Iran is reading Trump

- Will elections change Trump's Iran strategy?

- Could the West Bank erupt next?

- Could another war reshape Israel's election?

- Why Israelis are watching New York politics

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In this conversation, Anne Neuberger, former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology, currently General Partner and Head of Global Affairs at venture capital powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz, joins What’s Your Number hosts Yael Wissner Levy and Yonatan Adiri to discuss how AI, cyber warfare, drones, and defense tech are reshaping geopolitics. As technology, commercial investment, and national security become increasingly intertwined, what will determine which countries, and which companies, thrive in this new era and how core values determine their use.

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In this episode:

- The new ingredients of national power

- Why supply chains became a national security issue

- The AI debate between Washington and Silicon Valley

- What Israel and Ukraine teach the world about defense tech

- Is the U.S.-Israel alliance changing?

- Can Israel withstand growing divestment pressure?

- The next breakthroughs in AI and cyber

- Personal lessons learned from history from the Holocaust to Entebbe 

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This is a sneak peek from the members-only edition of Inside Call Me Back. Dan answers listener questions about what the New York City Democratic primary means for Jewish voters, how they should respond to Mamdani’s open hostility, whether Israel should ever reconsider its alliance with the United States and look to China, and why he believes America's partnership remains indispensable despite growing political uncertainty.

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You can access the full episode here, where Dan answers listener questions about:

- Rahm Emanuel's vision for the Middle East

- Will politics change Trump's Iran strategy?

- Changing career path to the Jewish nonprofit world

- Why don't some Orthodox Jews sing Hatikvah?

- Could the Middle East have its own NATO?

- Will there ever be an Inside Call Me Back trip to Israel?

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Can historians win the fight against antisemitism and viral misinformation in the age of AI?

Historian Niall Ferguson joins Dan to warn that fact-based historians are losing the battle with social media algorithms that spread false and antisemitic content to increasingly receptive audiences on both the right and left. He argues the rules of the fight have changed. Drawing on a new essay co-authored with AI researcher John-Clark Levin, Ferguson offers data on how algorithms, non-human bots, and AI are transforming how antisemitic ideas go viral, making traditional methods of exposing lies increasingly ineffective. If facts alone are no longer enough, what comes next?

Read The Death of History by Niall Ferguson and John-Clark Levin.

Books by Niall Ferguson including The War of the World and The Square and the Tower.

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In this episode:

- Why Niall Ferguson says his life's work as a historian has failed

- How antisemitism was once pushed to the political fringes, but no longer

- How AI changed the fight against antisemitism

- Why antisemitism is thriving on both the left and the right

- The Nick Fuentes playbook: irony, memes, and virality

- Can liberal democracy survive the age of AI?

- The politics and concerns about a post-Trump generation

- If the old fight is over, what should historians do now?

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What does Tisha B'Av ask of us after October 7?

Tisha B'Av is the saddest date on the Jewish calendar, but Rachel Goldberg-Polin argues it also offers hope and opportunity. In a conversation shaped by the personal and collective trauma of October 7, she explains why Jewish tradition gathers centuries of loss onto a single day, why it compels us to look inward, and how mourning is meant to become the first step toward repair.

Rachel’s suggested reading:  This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation by Rabbi Alan Lew

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In this episode:

- Why Tisha B'Av became Judaism's day of mourning

-  The original national failure: The spies and the Promised Land, 

- The centrality and importance of the Temples we can’t comprehend

- Sinat chinam and the danger of baseless hatred

- Why Jewish tradition looks inward after catastrophe

- How Tisha B'Av is observed and why the rituals matter

- Rav Kook's answer: from baseless hatred to baseless love

- Finding hope, repair, and "yet" after grief

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