We discuss the furor over the manslaughter conviction of Sgt. Elor Azaria; a new effort by settlers to present themselves using TED-ish talks; and a claim made by an important intellectual that Israels left cannot win its political battles because it has conceded cultural battles to the right.

We discuss the Government’s decision to spend 130 million shekels to resettle 42 settler families; the recent entry of businessmen into Israeli politics (especially on the left) and their claim that only they can drain the swamp; and a new app designed by an NGO to improve public transportation.

We discuss UN Security Council Resolution 2334 and the righteous apoplexy of Israel’s official response; recount Don’s shocking assertion that he agrees with US President-Elect Donald Trump; and ask why Israel should grow stuff at home that is cheaper to import.

We discuss the human tragedy of Aleppo, and what Israelis are saying (or not saying) and doing (or not doing) about it; mull over how we should regard David Friedman, President-Elect Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Israel; and ask whether the hullaballo over Knesset guards denying entrance to Parliamentary aides whose dresses were judged too short is decorum or a reduction of the patriarchy.

We discuss a new poll finding that almost one in two Israeli Jews think that leftists are not loyal to Israel; the Minister of Education’s appointment of an ethicist to write rules governing when and how professors talk politics in their college classrooms; and ask what explains the spleen and bile, vilely aimed at women, especially politicians, on the Hebrew Internet.

We discuss President Reuven Rivlin’s suggestion that each Israeli city decide for itself how religious it wants to be; the scuffle between the Knesset and Yad Vashem on whether to begin lionizing “Righteous Jews” of the Holocaust; and ask why so many Israeli old folks are lonely.

We discuss the befuddled responses of politicians to the fires blazing throughout Israel last week; ponder the idea of identity liberalism leading to Democratic Americas fall, finding the Israeli right uses such strategy to their benefit; and fret about a Jewish singer who created a popular Arab chanteuse and diva out of herself.

We discuss whether our current political woes validate cries of “Never Again”; reflect on how to respond to a Rabbi on government payroll unleashing inane bigotries in the media; and discuss whether grandparents of a dead soldier have the right to create a grandchild from his sperm and a surrogate mother.

We discuss the controversy over Israel’s national theater company, Habima; reflect on the new law regulating Israeli NGO election spending; and ask whether we have something to learn from the way stuff is advertised to the ultra-orthodox in Israel.

We wonder what Israeli Leftists can learn from the American left’s defeat ; discuss the politicization of Rabin’s annual memorial rally; and try to understand Netanyahu’s tirade on a leading Israeli journalist.