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Podcast: Haaretz Weekly
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How Israel’s Olympic hero challenged a nation’s identity
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:31:08
Publish Date: 2021-08-02 17:19:00
Description:

Host Simon Spungin is joined by Noa Landau and Anshel Pfeffer to discuss Artem Dolgopyat’s historic Olympic gold medal in gymnastics – his country’s second ever and its first in one of the core Olympic disciplines. Will Dolgopyat, who is not halakhically Jewish and cannot marry in the country, lead to a national rethink on the relationship between religion and state? PLUS: What’s behind the government’s rush to give citizens a third COVID vaccine shot?

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