Israeli National Identity: A Work in Progress

Ran Baratz, founding editor of the conservative Israeli website Mida, speaks about the Iran threat, the condition of Israel’s Arab minority, and Israel’s evolving national character. Criticizing the lingering tendency of his countrymen to identify themselves politically and socially by ideology, degree of religious observance, and other such markers, he is hopeful that these boundaries are eroding. (Interview by Yishai Fleisher; audio, 25 minutes.)