186: Mandy Yachad: I played international cricket wearing tzitzis and a yarmulke
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It's the third year of Jonny Gould's Jewish State Schools Podcaster of the Year, presented with Dangoor Education.
Our winner from Year 6 is 10-year-old Meira Masher from Independent Jewish Day School in Hendon, London and she secured time for us with an international cricketer with an extraordinary story.
Mandy Yachad wore tzitzit at the crease while batting for South Africa. They’re on display at Lords, the Home of Cricket, in a permanent exhibition. Of course he played at Lord’s - wearing them!
And Mandy was no ordinary player.
He was an opening batsman who scored 14 centuries and 32 fifties in his 16-year first class career, spanning 109 matches - mostly during the apartheid era.
With much of his career falling during the international sporting boycott of South Africa in the 1980s and early 1990s, Mandy was denied the opportunity during the prime of his career.
Mandy was named among the South African Cricket Annual five Players of the Year both in 1985 and 1991. He also played 21 times for his country at hockey too.
He eventually quit because he became religious and found it too difficult to observe shabbat.
Now at 64 with a lifetime of special memories, how does he reflect on his career? What's South Africa like these days and what was it like to grow up in an apartheid state?
This is Mandy Yachad in conversation with our winner, Meira Masher.
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BONUS EPISODE: Trump attacks Iran's nuclear sites. How it started. How it finished.
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The United States struck three Iranian nuclear sites - with President Donald Trump hailing it a 'spectacular military success'.
In this episode, listen to announcements by President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a momentous night of aerial attacks over Iran.
And coming up a fascinating listen in hindsight as Mr Trump speculated over the original two weeks he had given Tehran - with an abrupt and stinging dismissal of his European allies over the Iran crisis.
Mr Trump says the facilities were 'totally obliterated' and warned Tehran it 'must now make peace’.
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BONUS EPISODE: As Israel pounds Iran, what's Israel's aid to Gaza REALLY like? How will the Foreign Office get stranded Brits home?
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Iran's reckless retaliation against Israel's highly targeted attacks on military targets is throwing up new challenges for Israel, the US and other western countries who SHOULD be rallying around the Jewish State.
In this episode, listen to the incredulous response of stranded British nationals Max Radford and Gabriella Somerville telling them to go to Egypt in order to fly home!
And Colonel Richard Kemp becomes one of the first international voices to eyewitness the heroic work of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, set up to stop Hamas stealing western aid and selling it for a profit to their own people.
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BONUS EPISODE: “Operation Rising Lion”, Israel attacks Iran with devastating results
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A people that rises like a lioness and raises itself like a lion.
כדהֶן־עָם֙ כְּלָבִ֣יא יָק֔וּם וְכַֽאֲרִ֖י יִתְנַשָּׂ֑א
More than 200 fighter jets from the Israel Air Force, guided by Israeli Intelligence, struck over 100 targets across Iran, including hideouts of senior operatives in the Iran’s military leadership. The strikes eliminated the three most senior military commanders of the Iranian regime: Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Iranian regime, Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami and Commander of Khatam al-Anbiya (Emergency Command). Support Jonny's work and find all of his podcasts and writing here. Jonny Gould's Jewish State is supported by Dangoor Education and UK Toremet, promoting philanthropy.
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185: Richard Tice MP, Deputy Leader, Reform UK: "There's a competition to see who can use 'child killers' and 'genocide' more often in a more dramatic way. Hamas are the bad guys".
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Reform UK are gathering momentum if polls are anything to go by.
The only one that matters is of course, the next General Election which isn’t until 2029 at the latest.
Despite that, and a massive majority in the commons, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is treating Reform UK like the opposition, with the Tories in turmoil.
Would you vote for Reform? Is it safe to vote for them? How do you feel about Nigel Farage? Can we trust Reform? Are our lives as Jewish people in Britain secure?
So right here, let’s confront the challenging realities of the British media’s relentless antiIsrael barrage, and with it escalating security concerns.
This is Richard Tice MP, Deputy Leader, Reform UK.
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