Why did so many new center-left parties turn out to be flops? How did the ultra-Orthodox become the hottest election issue? Why does it seem to be getting harder, not easier, for women to make it in politics?

Did we eulogize the Labor Party too soon? Is it wrong for the PM to unveil a plan to give us a pile of cash, just weeks before elections? With 1 in 3 vaccinated, is it time to figure out what life will be like when this is all over?

Was Netanyahu’s deal to give Pfizer data on everyone who got the vaccine illegal? Why did a judge order the confiscation of a 2002 film about the IDF’s 2002 incursion into Jenin? What do the names we give our babies say about our society?

Are “religious-Zionist” political parties no longer viable? What should we make of the pious, thuggish, anarchist and often beautiful kids they call “Hilltop Youth”? Why can’t Israelis never ever delete Whatsapp from our phones?

Why are lefty parties sprouting like mushrooms after a spring rain? Is Netanyahu, in desperately angling to bring Palestinian-Israelis into his coalition, changing Israeli politics forever? What value do colorize photos from the Warsaw Ghetto provide?

Is it time to pull the plug on Israel’s Labor Party? Should America stop trying for peace between Israelis and Palestinians? Should we worry about a conservative lawyers organization playing the long game to change Israel’s courts?

Is the collapse of our government a good thing? Why are so many of Israel’s anti-vaxxers leftists? Is Gal Gadot the “New Jewess”?

Might peace between Morocco and Israel be kinda a game changer? Is PM Netanyahu’s newest BFF a representative of the Islamic Movement? Real-time, live, fact-checking Netanyahu seems like a good idea, but is it?

We discuss: 1) A new challenger to PM Netanyahu – Gideon Sa’ar – this time from the right 2) Whether someone should be allowed to stipulate that their donated kidney go to a Jew 3) What song should represent Israel at the next Eurovision

We discuss: 1) the vote to disperse the Knesset 2) the assassination of the head of the Iran nuclear weapons program 3) what to make of an archaeologist’s claim that King David was little more than the mediocre chieftain of a mediocre tribe