A conversation with Ari Harow, CEO of Itur Financial Intelligence, and former chief of staff to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
We spoke about what life was like growing up in Israel in the 80s and 90s, what seeing death does to young people, moving to the US and being a Zionist activist, starting off in the world of Likud politics, the difference between Benjamin Netanyahu and other politicians, the grueling pace of working in Israeli government, what makes being the prime minister of Israel one of the world's hardest jobs, the role of mythical cultural heros in modern politics, the effect Ari's legal troubles have had on his life, Ari's chance meeting with Jonathan Pollard on the streets of New York, the world of tracing money, and the history book Ari is writing about Israel in the period he served under Netanyahu.
