The holiday of Shavuot, once about one thing, and then about another, is now about, well, everything

We discuss: 1) PM Netanyahu’s decision to reinstate the transfer of humanitarian aid to Gaza 2) What we learn from the fact that Israel won the popular vote in the Eurovision Song Contest but came in 15th in the contest’s professional “jury” vote

We discuss: 1) The pacts President Trump is reaching with Gulf states and where it leaves Israel 2) The awkward ambivalence some Israelis feel about a hostage being released solely because he has an American passport

We discuss: 1) The reserve call-up and the new IDF operation that the government plans to launch in Gaza 2) The violent protests of a “Joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Event” in Raanana

To celebrate Israel’s 77th Independence Day, the crew asks “What is Israeli in our eyes?”  Plus, midrashic covers of classic Israeli songs!

We discuss: 1) Head of Shabak’s affidavits to the Supreme Court that could shape the security and democratic future of the State of Israel 2) The strange quantum-entanglement of the Holocaust and October 7th

We discuss: 1) the open-letter from Airforce reservists and retirees, calling on the Government to end the war 2) the decision by Hebrew University’s elite publishing house to shelve plans to publish a Hebrew translation of Mein Kampf

We discuss: 1) the IDF’s at-least-partly debunked explanation for how and why 15 Palestinians in rescue vehicles were shot dead 2) Netanyahu’s embarrassing visit to the White House

We discuss: 1) the anti-Hamas demonstrations in Gaza 2) on the 5th anniversary of the pandemic, how COVID-19 changed us as a society and as individuals

A hundred years ago this week, a Hebrew University was founded in Jerusalem