Allison, Don, and Noah discuss three topics of incomparable importance, and end with an anecdote each about something in Israel that made them smile this week.

Pour encourager les autres

We discuss the decision of the Israeli Steimatzky bookstore chain to cancel a “Charlie Hebdo” event, in which they had planned to sell a shipment of the post-massacre issue. Should offensive cartoons be in our face?

The merger of Israel’s Arab parties: An historic unification? 

We discuss what the historic unification of three Arab parties and one joint Arab-Jewish party augers for Israeli politics. Can the Balad-Ra’am-Ta’al-Hadash list, which incorporates such opposing ideologies, succeed?

Israeli elections 2015: Hell is other people

We ask what it says about the state of Israeli politics today that this election is shaping up to be about which bastard not to vote for.

Playlist:

All songs by Maureen Nehedar in honor of her tour and remarkable new album, ‘Asleep in the Bosom of Childhood.’

Tzur Mishelo
Khon Ta-khon
Ashreichem Israel
Yesheina be-hek Yaldut