Israeli Voices: Who We Are

education, history, religion, spirituality, judaism · EN-US

Israel is often known through headlines steeped in strife. But the core realities of everyday life can be very different. In Israeli Voices: Who We Are, an eight-episode podcast, CITIZENARTS presents observations and heartfelt conversations with a wide spectrum of Israelis. These are not formal interviews but unvarnished moments – in homes, classrooms, on city streets, in businesses and in communities shaped by cultures rooted in history, myth, calamity – triumph. As the series unfolds, common perspectives emerge — from people with widely varied backgrounds: Jewish and Palestinian citizens, native-born and immigrants from European and Muslim countries, the secular and the deeply religious. What comes into focus is the humanity of a diverse, complicated, in some ways deeply divided society that is little or largely misunderstood by the world outside. Their voices blend into a truthful rendering of who Israelis are. In the final episode, some of them c