The Promised Podcast

The “Carrots & Sticks” Edition

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?

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The “Courts: Of Public Opinion & the Other Kind” Edition

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”?

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The “Who’s In & Who’s Out?” Edition

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?

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The “Changing Fortunes” Edition

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?

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The “Shots & Tots” Edition

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?

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The “But For Mel” Edition

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?

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The “Party Time!” Edition

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?

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The “Might Less Be More?” Edition

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?

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The “Age of Miracle and Wonder Women” Edition

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”?

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The “If This Peace is Moroccan, You Better Come Knockin’” Edition

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?

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