Tal Becker

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470 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 8 Aug

Tal Becker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Call Me Back - with Dan Senor · Sneak Peek: Tal Becker on the challenge of forming a coalition with Arabs parties · 8 Aug 2026 podcast

Example for Jewish denominations, but that's never what an election is about.

So it's very rare that we kind of bring that issue up.

It does make me want to say one last thing, maybe, about this, Dan, and that is that I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about what we mean by the term Jewish state.

And a lot of people, especially non-Jews, think that we're talking about the degree to which the Jewish religion is involved in the state.

That phrase Jewish state means that it's the mainstream.

Understanding of that.

It's the state where the Jewish people realize their right to self-determination.

And the Jewish bit in terms of the way in which religious authorities play a role in Israel, and that's Israel doesn't have an established religion, right?

It has lots of different religions for different groups.

Obviously, because the majority is Jewish, the rabbinate plays a role for the majority.

But in that sense, it's not particularly unique.

Lots of other democracies have dominant religion.

That play a dominant role in their societies.

But this issue of, you know, there it there is controversy around this question of civil and non-religious personal status options within Israel and the dominance of

Call Me Back - with Dan Senor · Can we break the Israeli-Palestinian paralysis? - with Tal Becker · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

There is genuine paralysis that is deeply understandable.

There are those who ideologically or politically do not want there to be progress and take advantage of the paralysis and trauma in order to advance that agenda.

My argument is simply that if you think that this paralysis is serving us well and there's nothing we can do about it,

then that's fine.

But if you think it isn't serving us well, then asking what can we do about it feels like an urgent thing.

I'm talking about the real thing.

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