Netanyahu faces a new opposition party, plus the lives of those liberated from the Nazi camp Bergen-Belsen

May 6
54 mins

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The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu may come up against a rightwing-centrist super coalition in elections later this year, after two of his biggest political rivals - former Prime Ministers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid - combined forces to form a new party. Plus, the Australian writer Nadia Wheatley's new book sheds light on the ordeals experienced by prisoners liberated from the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in April 1945. 

Guests:

  • Irris Makler, veteran Middle East correspondent
  • Nadia Wheatley, writer and historian, author of Strange New World: Belsen's first year of freedom (Monash University Press)
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