Frankie Snyder, an expert on the opus sectile mosaic floors of the Herodian palace, joins VOI's Eve Harow.

VOI's Ari Abramowitz and Jeremy Gimpel are joined in-studio by Rena Quint, who recounts her tale of surviving the Holocaust, after being sent to the ghetto, then to Treblinka and finally to Bergen-Belson. She reveals details about her journey from the comforts of a middle-class home in Poland to the horrors of the camps as a young child, and eventually to Israel. Today, a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, she lives in Jerusalem and speaks around the world about survival and overcoming challenges of the past.

Gil Hoffman discusses the selection of Danny Danon as Israel's UN ambassador with Daniel Seaman and Peace Now General Director Yariv Oppenheimer.

VOI's Judy Lash Balint is joined in-studio by Lviv-based researcher Alex Denysenko and attorney Marla Raucher Osborn to talk about genealogy.

Is it newsworthy that an Israeli professor held a student's baby in his arms during a lecture so the mother could remain in class?

Passionate Israel advocate, blogger and radio personality Rolene Marks tells VOI's Josh Hasten about the ultimate anti-Israel fail.

Today's topics include a discussion with Elie Pieprz and Alan Baker, reflections on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and lessons from the week's Torah portion.

Rabbi Ken Spiro, author of 'Crash Course in Jewish History' and 'World Perfect,' joins VOI's Ari Abramowitz and Jeremy Gimpel.

Conservative political commentator and star American talk-show host Ben Shapiro discusses with VOI's Ari Abramowitz and Jeremy Gimpel a number of compelling issues relating to Israel and the US. Is it true, for example, that the US-Israel relationship has never been worse? And why are liberals anti-Israel? Then, listen to Ari and Jeremy duke it out about how and whether the case for Israel should be made internationally. Is there a key anti-Israel accusation that needs addressing? Need one always feel obligated to defend Israel’s decisions and policies?

Leading American Pastor Chik Chikeles joins VOI's Jeremy Gimpel in-studio to discuss why he pilots Jews across the United States to share the truth about Israel with American Christians. Then, Rabbi Moshe Rothchild, a leading activist in Jewish outreach to the Christian world, joins VOI's rabbi duo Ari Abaramowitz and Jeremy Gimpel in-studio to explain why he has devoted his life to strengthening the Jewish-Christian connection, in spite of the price this incurs from many in the Jewish community. How has he changed the Christians he has met, and how has he been changed by them?

Aboud Dandachi once believed all the anti-Israel rhetoric he had been taught. Since fleeing his native country of Syria and becoming a refugee in Turkey, however, he says that now that he has "seen the war from both sides," he has a completely different perspective. He joins VOI's Molly Livingstone to explain why he thinks Palestinians should revolt against BDS; how the Arab countries have disgraced them; and how the civil war in Syria forced him to grow up and realize that Israel is doing the right thing.

Is Israel's election about war, peace, socioeconomic issues or corruption? Show host Gil Hoffman spent the day with former Finance Minister and chairman of the Yesh Atid Party Yair Lapid and came back with an interesting answer. Gil also speaks to Eli Garshowitz, a Jerusalem-based correspondent for Japanese media, about Israel's connection to the beheading of a Japanese journalist by ISIS terrorists.

VOI's Melanie Phillips hears the incredible story of how Sydney solicitor Rebekah Giles survived serious injuries in the 2004 Thailand tsunami to start a personal journey which would end in an extraordinary discovery about her identity.

VOI’s Daniel Seaman and Daniela Traub present this week's 'Top 5' list.

Is BDS taking hold everywhere? Not if Barry Williams can help it.

VOI's Dan Diker, host of "National Security," joins VOI's Josh Hasten to discuss Hamas preparations for the next round of violence against Israel. Dan says that many underground terror tunnels from Gaza to Israel already exist, and that Hamas is openly carrying out military training, while UN "peacekeepers" turn a blind eye.

Journalist Dimitri Bettoni joins VOI's Josh Hasten live from the headquarters of the Joint Arab List. He says that the joy felt by the party for emerging as the third largest in the next Knesset is overshadowed by the concern over PM Netanyahu's apparent victory. He says there is a sense that the two major parties, Likud and Labor (the Zionist Union), are leaning towards a national unity government, which would render the Joint Arab List powerless.

Lihi Lapid, newspaper columnist, author and wife of Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid, tells VOI's Judy Lash Balint why she bared all about their family life in her latest book, "Women of Valor," now available in English.