Seventy-three years in the making, a podcastilogical celebration of Israeli Independence Day!

Was the President right to ask the PM to form the next government? Is it hypocritical of Netanyahu to form a coalition with the support of the Islamist Ra’am Party? What do we need in our new president?

Is a law to disqualify Netanyahu from forming a gov’t kosher? What to make of robot soldiers patrolling the Gaza border? What’s the biggest Jewish museum in the world have to tell us about what it means to be a Jew?

What should we make of the surprising success of the Islamicist Ra’am party? The Kahanists in the Knesset? The better-than-anyone-predicted showing of Blue & White? The relative failure of the right-winger Gideon Sa’ar and Naftali Bennett? The relative success of the Labor Party and Meretz? The stalwart centrist Yair Lapid?

What are we to make of the election campaigns now drawing to a close? How are American political consultants affecting Israeli politics? Is “internal migration” a key to understanding what Israel is all about?

Why has the number of Israelis who think Netanyahu is most fit to be PM tumbled over the past few weeks? Why don’t Israeli teens trust other teens different than they are, and what can be done? Is there a special, nuclear-grade misogyny reserved for tough, brash, in-your-face, Mizrahi women leaders today?

Can we make sense of the middle-school dynamics among the leaders of the 7 right-wing parties? Why is the Supreme Court’s decision about who is Jewish controversial and what’s it mean? What is a library in 2021?

Are ultra-Orthodox attacks on Labor Party candidate, Reform Rabbi Gilad Kariv, legitimate? Has Israel’s right just embraced the labor movement? What is so infuriating about political correctness?

With longtime MK Limor Livnat’s defection from the Likud, who says the party ain’t what it used to be? What incentives and sanctions should be used to cajole reticent people to vaccinate? Is a “Green New Deal” what we need?

Does Yair Lapid have what it takes to be PM? What’s the International Criminal Court up to now? What’s behind the surprising flourish of new political magazines with long articles printed on dead trees and sent by something called “the post”?