Lazar Focus

By The Times of Israel

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Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman explores what's behind the news that spins the globe


Episode Date
Is the IDF telling the right story to the world ?
May 08, 2026
David Rosen: Israel doesn't adequately understand Christian relations
Apr 24, 2026
Moran Zaga: The Gulf states react to humiliation by Iran
Apr 17, 2026
John Spencer: US can force open Strait of Hormuz if it decides to
Apr 10, 2026
What does history of air power tell us about Iran war?
Apr 03, 2026
Raz Zimmt: Iran's new leadership and the coming escalation
Mar 27, 2026
Caroline Glick: Why we went back to war in Iran
Mar 20, 2026
Gallia Lindenstrauss: Iran war reaches Kurds, Turkey and Azerbaijan
Mar 13, 2026
Can the Iran regime be toppled from the air?
Mar 06, 2026
Imam Imad Al Masri: The Muslim community spreading peace in Israel and beyond
Feb 27, 2026
Michael Oren: Israel's historic Iran moment
Feb 20, 2026
Lazar Berman: Are Saudis moving away from Israel and toward Islamists?
Feb 13, 2026
William Daroff: What Trump needs to do for that Nobel Prize
Feb 06, 2026
David Parsons: Why Christian Zionists support a strong Israel
Jan 30, 2026
Adam Louis-Klein: Why anti-Zionism is the newest hate movement
Jan 23, 2026
Lazar Berman: Why Iran's regime is holding on… for now
Jan 16, 2026
Haviv Rettig Gur with 6 projections for Israel in 2026
Jan 02, 2026
Lazar Focus: Eran Ortal on where does the IDF go after October 7?
Dec 26, 2025
Lazar Focus: Danielle Pletka on what Trump wants in the Middle East
Dec 19, 2025
Lazar Focus: Jacob Magid on the day that never came - Blinken's vision for postwar Gaza
Dec 12, 2025
Lazar Focus: Did the Red Cross do all it could for hostages in Gaza?
Dec 05, 2025
Lazar Focus: As US and Saudi Arabia shore up ties, is Israel left out?
Nov 28, 2025
Lazar Focus: Is Trump's 'pathway to a Palestinian state' code for nation-building?
Nov 21, 2025
Friday Focus with John Spencer: Hamas can be demilitarized. Here's how
Nov 14, 2025
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Is Israel heading back to war with Hezbollah?
Nov 07, 2025
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: New hope for Catholic-Jewish ties
Oct 31, 2025
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Does Israel rely on the US to end its wars?
Oct 24, 2025
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Is Israel's Hamas problem solved?
Oct 10, 2025
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Who's afraid of a Palestinian state?
Sep 26, 2025
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: An Israel-Syria security pact in the Jewish New Year?
Sep 19, 2025
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: After five years, are the Abraham Accords a success?
Sep 12, 2025
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Yaakov Katz on why Israel was asleep on Oct. 7
Sep 05, 2025
Friday Focus with Yossi Klein Halevi: Worse than Disengagement is a one-state 'dissolution'
Aug 29, 2025
Friday Focus with Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Disengagement through the eyes of a Gazan
Aug 22, 2025
Friday Focus with Anita Tucker: A former Gush Katif resident yearns to go home
Aug 15, 2025
Friday Focus with Micah Goodman: 20 years to Disengagement as Israel is set to occupy Gaza
Aug 08, 2025
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Why Israel is misfiring in ties with Christians
Jul 25, 2025
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Who are the Druze and why is Israel protecting them?
Jul 18, 2025
Friday Focus: Former hostage Keith Siegel wants to have hope
Jul 11, 2025
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman and guest John Spencer: Is the IDF winning in Gaza?
Jul 04, 2025
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: 12-Day War's aftershocks for Russia and China
Jun 27, 2025
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: How Israel stopped the bomb in 1981 and 2007
Jun 20, 2025
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Has Israel finally launched a counterinsurgency in Gaza?
Jun 13, 2025
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: 10 truths about the Gaza war, 20 months in
Jun 06, 2025
Friday Focus with AJC head Ted Deutch: Calls for 'intifada' don't bring social justice
May 30, 2025
Friday Focus with Sam Sokol: Why Haredim see themselves as warriors
May 23, 2025
Friday Focus with Tal Schneider: The IDF's women warriors
May 16, 2025
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman - The 'forever' Gaza War: Past, present & potential future
May 09, 2025
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Genesis of Israel's hostage policy
May 02, 2025
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: There is no Temple Mount status quo
Apr 25, 2025
Friday Focus with Sue Surkes: Israel's biblical flora resurrected
Apr 18, 2025
Friday Focus with Emanuel Fabian: IDF Oct. 7 probes reveal heroism amid terror
Apr 11, 2025
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Netanyahu's 'bromances' with anti-liberal democracies
Apr 04, 2025
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Attacks on Christians in Israel are national stain
Mar 28, 2025
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Will Israel and Lebanon finally have a border?
Mar 21, 2025
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Dramatic saga of the temporary Israel-Iran alliance
Mar 14, 2025
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: During Gaza War, cold peace with Egypt gets frostier
Mar 07, 2025
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman: Negotiating with terrorists, again
Feb 28, 2025
Friday Focus: After 3 years of Ukraine War, should anyone care?
Feb 21, 2025
Friday Focus: Decoding Trump’s foreign policy
Feb 14, 2025