We discuss: 1) The President’s controversial decision to celebrate Hanukkah in Hebron 2) Whether, by closing its borders to non-citizens, Israel is making diaspora Jews into 2nd class Jews 3) A poll finding that most Israelis favor turning the IDF into a “professional army”

We discuss: 1) The decision not to give computer theorist Oded Goldreich the Israel Prize 2) Whether all gov’t offices should be moved to Jerusalem 3) Whether the models used to forecast Israel’s demography in 2050 produce self-fulfilling prophecies

We discuss: 1) The new term-limit law, and what it accomplishes 2) The establishment of a new “traditionalism (mesoratiut) lobby” in the Knesset

We discuss: 1) What’s next now that the budget is passed 2) The discovery that an online food shopping site for the Ultra-Orthodox is a lot cheaper than a site for the rest of us 3) Who and what killed the Israeli left

We discuss: 1) Whether the cash that coalition MKs get to give to their favorite causes are a necessary good or an unnecessary evil 2) The new “pigovian” congestion tax that will make drivers pay handsomely every time they drive into Tel Aviv

We discuss: 1) Defense Minister Gantz’s hope that we’ll trust him on security issues he cannot discuss publicly 2) Israel’s new 100 point plan to slow climate change 3) Whether the vaxxed should get transplants ahead of the unvaxxed

We discuss: 1) Yuli Edelstein’s bid to replace Bibi Netanyahu as head of the Likud 2) How to absorb the news that Shimon Peres sexually assaulted colleagues 3) Whether closing Rabin Square to build a train station is a blow to civic culture and maybe democracy itself

We discuss: 1) The link between who you vote for and whether you get vaccinated 2) Whether exchanging 1,027 Palestinian prisoners for Gilad Shalit was a good deal 3) Whether Tel Aviv has gentrified itself into irrelevance

We discuss: 1) Whether or not PM Bennett was right when he said that “Israelis don’t wake thinking about conflict” 2) Teachers’ threats to strike if cameras are placed in classrooms 3) Whether it’s time to do away with the law that every Jerusalem building must be faced with the same “Jerusalem stone”

We discuss: 1) What to do about Iran reaching the brink of the bomb 2) Whether, in Israel of 2021, it’s considered icky for older folks to let it be known that they sheboink