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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Fighting antisemitism and learning to skate: An interview with Israel's new Canadian ambassador
Description: As Israel's new ambassador to Canada, Ronen Hoffman has only been in the country a few weeks. But his priority list is already long. He plans to fight antisemitism, counter the threat of global terrorism and forge new industrial and economic ties between Israel and Canada.
He steps into a post that's been vacant for two years. Partly because of the pandemic, and partly because of the chaos that has been Israeli politics for the past two years, Canada hasn't had an Israeli ambassador since Nimrod Barkan stepped down in 2019. Hoffman himself was appointed in the summer...