Ha'aretz journalist Ari Shavit and Atlantic National Correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg discuss the fundamental challenge to Jews in Israel; although Israel is designed as a safe political place for Jews, on the individual level, it isn't as safe as the United States or Western Europe.
Bio
Jeffrey Goldberg
Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent of The Atlantic. Before joining The Atlantic in 2007, he was Middle East correspondent and Washington correspondent for The New Yorker. Previously, Goldberg served as a correspondent for The New York Times Magazine and New York magazine. His book Prisoners has been hailed as one of the best books of 2006 by several publications including the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times.
Goldberg is the recipient of numerous awards including the Anti-Defamation League Daniel Pearl Prize, the National Magazine Award for Reporting for his coverage of Islamic terrorism, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists prize for best international investigative journalist, to name a few. Goldberg was a public policy scholar in 2002 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and in 2001 he was the Syrkin fellow in letters of the Jerusalem Foundation.
Ari Shavit
Ari Shavit is a writer and columnist of the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz. A proud Zionist, he lives in Jerusalem.