This episode features Oz Frankel, Associate Professor of History at The New School for Social Research. Professor Frankel examines the period of the late 1960s as a unique moment when Israel became more closely entwined with the United States not just as a strategic ally but also through its intensifying intimacy with American culture, society, and technology. This is the subject of his new book Coca-Cola, Black Panthers, and Phantom Jets: Israel in the American Orbit, 1967–1973. This episode is drawn from an event that took place in March 2025.
Featuring:
Oz Frankel, Associate Professor of History, The New School for Social Research
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