Ron Cantor Podcast

The Israel Insider Episode 4 May 28, 2021 A weekly podcast where we discuss the news in Israel with Ron Cantor, President of ShelanuTV and Israel Regional Director for GOD TV. This week's topics include: the end of the controversial Green Pass, the alarming rise of antisemitism in America and around the world, a new project in the south of Israel, the US Secretary of State's visit to Israel...and more!

A weekly podcast where we discuss the news in Israel with Ron Cantor, President of ShelanuTV and Israel Regional Director for GOD TV. This week's topics include Day 11 of the war in Israel - rocket attacks continue but a ceasefire may be coming. Ron speaks to HBO's John Oliver (or at least he wants to!) to educate John on the history and some facts on the Palestinian Israeli conflict. We talk about the unique significance of Israel’s representative in a European singing contest...and more!

A weekly podcast where we discuss the news with Ron Cantor, President of ShelanuTV and Israel Regional Director for GOD TV. This week's topics include the war in Israel - attacks from outside and in...Ron's "birdseye" view...the upcoming holiday-Shavuot (also known as Pentecost)...and more!

A weekly podcast where we discuss the news in Israel with Ron Cantor, President of ShelanuTV and Israel Regional Director for GOD TV. This week's topics include: Is the Netanyahu era over? Did the US and Iran make a new deal? The pandemic in the rearview mirror for Israel? Tragedy at Mount Meron--preventable?

I was watching Wimbledon the other day when ESPN played a 5-minute piece on the majesty of Wimbledon. That God me thinking about Yeshua as King and what the Bible says about procession. It might not sound exciting, but indeed it is. Have a listen. 

Whenever I visit the beautiful Golan Heights in Northern Israel, I can’t help but think of Israel’s most revered spy, Eli Cohen.    Eli was born in Alexandria, Egypt. His parents were Syrian Jews from the once great town of Aleppo. The same Aleppo that has been torn to shreds by the Syrian civil war.  He was raised as a Zionist. When Israel became a nation most of his family made Aliyah, moved to Israel, but Eli stayed behind and worked on behalf of Israel in Egypt. In 1956 he was arrested by Egyptian authorities and eventually deported along with the rest of the Alexandrian Jews in Egypt.  He started a new life in Israel at the age of 29 in 1957.  He assumed that because if his background, Israel would want to train him as a spy but he was rebuffed by the Mossad. Despite scoring high on all the tests: IQ, bravery, amazing memory—there was concern that he had a bit of a hero complex and could put himself and maybe others in danger. However, the Mossad never forgot Eli Cohen. About a year after he married Nadi

In our last episode we talked about the kibbutz movement—the collective farming system that began in Israel in 1909 in Degania just south of the Sea of Galilee. While I am no fan of socialism, it was successful as long as Israel’s existence depended on it. But what happened once Israel stabilized? First, let me tell you how a kibbutz worked. The ideology came out of Eastern Europe and Russia. The layout of a kibbutz was simple. You had a residential area. The children, at least for the first few decades, would sleep not in their homes, but in the children’s house. Remember, everything was equal. There were common grounds for swimming and dining and an auditorium for meetings and entertainment. Elana and I once went to a costume party on the Jewish feast of Purim at a kibbutz.  The kibbutz life is simple. Everything you needed is on the kibbutz. In most cases, cars are not needed, as you either walk or bike to your destination. In comes cases, golf carts are used.  AD Gordon, was the father of Israel agricultu

Would you believe it if I told you that socialism helped young Israel survive? That was what I told a conservative talk show radio host some 30 years ago and he simply could not believe it.    Personally I am a fan of the free market. But about 40 years before Israel become a nation, they realized that the only way they could survive was to start collective farms where everything was equal. They called these farms Kibbutzim.  When the Jews returned to the promised land, it had been badly neglected by the Ottoman Empire and the Arabs who lived there. It was unfarmable. In the south, rocks had to be cleared and in the north malaria infested swamps had to be drained. The Jewish people worked together for the common good.  Degania—from the Hebrew word for grain—was the very first kibbutz, located at the southern end of the Sea of Galilee. The idea of reclaiming the soil had become something of a religion for the early Jewish Chalutizm, or pioneers. The young men and women came mostly from Eastern Europe. They wer

We shared in part one how Moshe Dayan rose to fame as a military hero. He joined the Hagana militia at the age of 14 and guided Israel through the Six Day War to one of the most lopsided victories in the history of warfare. In Part two we learn However, in 73, with Dayan still the defense minister, the Arabs launched a surprise attack from Syria and Egypt on Yom Kippur. While Israelis were fasting all over the nation, Egypt and Syria attacked. Expect for a few IDF commanders whose concerns fell upon deaf ears, no one saw it coming. Israel was caught off guard.   As we will detail in our episode on the Valley of Tears, Israel, though outnumbered by the Soviet-backed Syrians, miraculously drove the them out of the Golan Heights. Israel won the Yom Kippur War, but it was Dayan who blamed for not being battle-ready.  Dayan’s actions just after the miraculous recapturing of Jerusalem during the Six-Day-War may have sealed his fate, if you believe that God was behind the victory and had an opinion regrding t

Moshe Dayan, the iconic eye-patch wearing soldier, is considered by many to be one of Israel’s greatest generals. But his life was not free from controversy.  intro He was the second child born on the very first Kibbutz, or collective farm—in Israel, situated below the Sea of Galilee, right next to Yardenit on the Jordan, where millions of pilgrims come to be immersed in water. He was named Moshe after the first member of the Kibbutz that was killed by Arabs, as he was seeking medication for Moshe’s father. At the time, Degania was part of the Ottoman Empire. This was before the first world war, after which Great Britain would take control of what would become Israel, a few decades later. At the young age of 14 he joined the Haganah, the main forerunner to the Israeli Defense Forces, along with a few other militias. He later was accepted into an elite force led and trained under famed British Commander Orde Wingate. There Dayan would learn guerilla warfare—the only way for the outnumbered Israelis to survive.

Israeli news for the 4 week of March

Join Ron Cantor for news updates for the third week of March 2019.

In this episode, I will take you through all the trials and victories of my 7 year journey to speaking and preaching in my new language, Hebrew!