Jonathan Yerushalmy
speaker
1,334 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Sep
Jonathan Yerushalmy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He is essentially a Republican.
We can think of him as a Republican politician in many, many ways.
And you know, when he returned to Israel to do military service, very soon after that finished, he was back in America, working in America, going to university in America.
He has only ever lived as a private citizen in America.
He has never lived as a private citizen in Israel.
He's only ever been a politician or in the army.
And so the way that we interact with the world as private citizens is the way we interact with society, with governments, with
with the economy, he's only ever done that in America.
Yeah, massively.
I so he in the late 80s, he became an Israeli diplomat in America.
That was kind of his first government job.
And he became known as the face of Israel in America.
He would go on news programs, late night TV shows.
He was this really powerful figure for Israel in selling what the country needs to an American audience because he speaks with
With an American accent.
You know, he grew up there.
He understands the culture.
And when he returned to Israel to enter into politics a few years later, he could sell himself as, you know, the only Israeli politician who really can speak to Americans on their own terms and who understands America.
And that has been so important for his success.
He has been at the top of Israeli politics for about 30 years on and off now.
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