Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with Shlomit Ravitsky Tur-Paz, the director of the Israel Democracy Institute’s Joan and Irwin Jacobs Center for Shared Society and head of the Religion and State Program at the center.

Ahead of the upcoming October 27 elections, Israel is looking increasingly stratified, with each segment fighting for its own electorate and particularist needs.

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In this week’s conversation, we focus on two pivotal Israeli societies: the Religious Zionist and Haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, communities.

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