The Promised Podcast

The “The Climes They Are A-Changin’” Edition

We discuss: 1) Defense Minister Gantz’s hope that we’ll trust him on security issues he cannot discuss publicly 2) Israel’s new 100 point plan to slow climate change 3) Whether the vaxxed should get transplants ahead of the unvaxxed

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The “From ‘Et Tu’ to ‘Me Too’” Edition

We discuss: 1) Yuli Edelstein’s bid to replace Bibi Netanyahu as head of the Likud 2) How to absorb the news that Shimon Peres sexually assaulted colleagues 3) Whether closing Rabin Square to build a train station is a blow to civic culture and maybe democracy itself

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The “Vax & Figures” Edition

We discuss: 1) The link between who you vote for and whether you get vaccinated 2) Whether exchanging 1,027 Palestinian prisoners for Gilad Shalit was a good deal 3) Whether Tel Aviv has gentrified itself into irrelevance

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The “Waking Up But Still Not Woke” Edition

We discuss: 1) Whether or not PM Bennett was right when he said that “Israelis don’t wake thinking about conflict” 2) Teachers’ threats to strike if cameras are placed in classrooms 3) Whether it’s time to do away with the law that every Jerusalem building must be faced with the same “Jerusalem stone”

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The “We’ll Try to Stay Serene & Calm” Edition

We discuss: 1) What to do about Iran reaching the brink of the bomb 2) Whether, in Israel of 2021, it’s considered icky for older folks to let it be known that they sheboink

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The “Ushpizin” Edition

Fill your sukkah with seven amazing guests, in a podcastilogical “ushpizin” made of 100% reused, renewed and recycled old episodes!

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The “Taking Stock” Edition

We discuss: 1) What to make of the Abraham Accords, 1 year later 2) The escape of 6 Palestinian prisoners from a maximum security prison 3) Whether “White(ish) Feminism” is a problem in Israel

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The “Distinguished & Undistinguished Distinctions” Edition

The crew discuss: 1) How fast an IDF casualty tragic got politicized 2) Whether and how cities should observe “shmita” 3) Whether Israel makes the chasm between Jews and everyone else wider and less bridgeable to our own detriment, and everyone else’s, too

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The “Deeds Done” Edition

The crew discuss: 1) the past year, and what we did right and what went wrong 2) the late-night, on the down-low meeting between Defense Minister Gantz and Palestinian President Abbas 3) what Israelis can learn from the heartbreaking spectacle of Afghanistan falling to the Taliban as America hastily, messily retreats

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The “73 Days In” Edition

The crew discuss: 1) what we’ve learned from the pandemic about how to teach our kids 2) how our new govt is doing 73 days in 3) a documentary movie about the struggle of one ultra-Orthodox woman over whether or not to take off the wig

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