In this very special episode, Noah shares love letters he heard walking the streets of Tel Aviv with Lucy the Dog, on a new “Love Letters” app made by genius Russian-Israeli director Semyon Alexandrovsky.

We discuss: 1) What has become of the “Religious Zionism Party,” after its sort-of primaries made it a settler-only affair? 2) What are the ties that bind the different sorts of people who hope to give Benjamin Netanyahu four more years in office?

We discuss: 1) This week’s primaries in the “Democrats Party” and what they say about Israel’s only leftist Zionist party 2) Whether or not our contemporary politics are infected by “baseless hatred.”

We discuss: 1) The “blitz” of legislation passed in the fading days of the Knesset 2) A hauntingly beautiful essay in The Atlantic by former Prime Minister and head of the opposition Yair Lapid.

We discuss: 1) The Cabinet’s dramatic statement implying that the government may not comply with a Supreme Court ruling 2) The meaning of the Maccabiah, the “Jewish Olympics” underway now.

We discuss: 1) The grim milestone marking 1,000 awful days since Oct. 7 2) The emergence of a new joint Jewish-Arab political party that unapologetically puts peace at the center of their agenda, and who has received a harsh reception on the left

We discuss: 1) a poll finding that most Israelis think that Iran “won the war” 2) the eviscerating new movie, “Yes”, by Israeli director-in-self-imposed-exile Nadav Lapid, who despite his criticism of Israel was BDSedly hounded out of next week’s Marseille International Film Festival

We discuss: 1) The “great deal” that US President Donald Trump struck with Iran 2) The resurgence of “communal singing” in Israel, and what it says about the state of our souls, and how nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.

We talk about this week’s strange, short, truncated warlet with Iran, and new findings that point to a weird entanglement between Israeli attitudes towards climate change and most everything else we argue about here.

We talk about President Herzog’s alarmed warning that we are turning into animals, and PM Netanyahu’s very viral election ad, about how leftist-wing sorts make right-wing sorts feel like less.