Daily Lion
Israel,
in depth.
Every week.
Daily Lion is a network of four weekly podcasts on Israel: politics, foreign affairs, defense and security, and the Jewish people. Two AI co-hosts read what Israel's serious commentary writers published that week and make sense of it, with every reading credited out loud to the writer and publication behind it.
Four shows. Four beats. One a day.
Each show is a 45-minute conversation between two co-hosts with different angles on the same beat. They work through what the week's writers actually said, where the readings diverge, and what is at stake.
The coalition, the Knesset, the courts, religion and state. Sixty-one is a majority, and the permanent question is who holds those seats and what they are spending them on this week.
Israel among the powers: Washington, the Gulf, Tehran's orbit, Europe. What the world is doing to Israel's position, and what Israel's own moves do to everyone else's.
Both halves of security: the fronts, campaigns and doctrine outside the country, and the quieter work inside it that a defense show usually forgets.
Israel and the Jewish people: peoplehood, the diaspora, antisemitism, religion in the modern era, and what the two halves owe each other when they pull apart.
A week of reading behind every episode.
All week, Daily Lion collects new commentary and analysis from more than fifty Hebrew and English publications across the political spectrum.
The Israeli press week ends with the deep Friday magazines. On Saturday night the week's writing is sorted into stories, and each story goes to exactly one show.
The night before a show drops, its episode is planned and written. Every claim is checked against the article it cites, and an editor pass can hold an episode that is not right.
Monday to Thursday, one show each morning. Follow a show and you get a notification on the mornings it drops. The first five minutes are always free.
More than fifty publications, left to right.
Essay journals, think tanks and op-ed pages, each labelled by where it sits politically. The disagreement in every episode lives between these publications, never in the show's own voice. Balance is our job, not a setting you have to operate.
Half the conversation happens in Hebrew.
The essays that move Israel's debate are written in Hebrew, in journals that translation rarely reaches. Daily Lion reads them in the original, alongside the English press, and brings both into every show.
Honest about the voices. Careful with the words.
When a show describes what a writer thinks, it names the writer and the publication in the audio itself. Attribution is the product, not the fine print.
Daily Lion does not take sides on Israeli politics. It reads the people who do, across the spectrum, and explains where they diverge and why.
Every claim in a script is checked against the article it cites before any audio is made, and a separate editor pass can hold an episode. Nothing ships unchecked.
Each show's two co-hosts are AI voices, and every episode says so plainly. What they read is real: the week's published writing, from named sources.
Built for a 45-minute listen.
Every episode is segmented. Jump to the part you came for, or skip the one you already know.
Nobody finishes 45 minutes in one sitting. Your place is kept across days and devices.
Read along with every episode, every line labelled with the co-host who said it.
Follow one show or all four. One notification per show on the morning it drops, never more.
The first five minutes are free.
Questions
What is Daily Lion?
A network of four weekly podcasts on Israel, one dropping each day from Monday to Thursday: Sixty One on Israeli politics, Crosswinds on foreign affairs, All Fronts on defense and security, and Tribe & State on Israel and the Jewish people. Each episode is two AI co-hosts working through what Israel's serious commentary writers published that week, with every reading credited to the writer and publication behind it.
Are the hosts really AI?
Yes, and every episode says so plainly. Each show has its own two co-hosts with their own angles, and what they say is grounded in that week's published writing: the script cites specific articles, every claim is checked against the article it cites before any audio is made, and a separate editor pass can hold an episode that does not measure up.
How is this different from a news podcast?
It is not a news recap. The shows cover commentary and analysis: what Israel's most serious writers think about the week, where their readings diverge, and what is actually at stake. You will hear what happened, but the point is what the people who study it closely make of it.
How does Daily Lion handle bias?
The reading list runs from left to right, in Hebrew and English, and each publication is labelled by where it sits. The disagreement in an episode lives between the publications, never between the co-hosts, and Daily Lion takes no position of its own. Balance is our editorial job, not a setting you have to operate.
When do new episodes come out?
One show a day: Sixty One on Mondays, Crosswinds on Tuesdays, All Fronts on Wednesdays, Tribe & State on Thursdays. Follow a show and you get a notification in the morning, your time, when a new episode is waiting.
What is free, and what needs membership?
The first five minutes of every episode are free, forever, across the whole back catalog. Members hear all four shows in full, every week, plus the complete archive. Membership is $6.99 a month billed yearly, or $9.99 month to month, with a seven-day free trial and cancellation anytime.
What does it actually read?
More than fifty publications: Israel's essay journals and op-ed pages, the think tanks that study the region, and the magazines where the Jewish world argues with itself, in Hebrew and in English. The full list, with where each publication sits politically, is in the app.