Podcast: Matti Friedman on China’s New Haifa Port

This Week’s Guest: Matti Friedman

This past fall, Israel’s international shipping port in Haifa completed renovations and it recently went operational. Almost all of Israel’s international trade comes and goes by sea, and Haifa’s is the busiest of the country’s ports.

The Haifa port is also where the U.S. Navy’s Sixth Fleet—based in Naples, Italy—comes to call when it needs fuel, and when it seeks to project power in the Eastern Mediterranean. Thus it sits at the very center of Israeli trade and industry and is a vital part of its military and diplomatic relationship with the United States.