We discuss the bill approved by the Knesset this week that allows the expropriation of privately-owned land in the occupied territories; the firing of a rocket from Gaza towards a Jewish town and the pounding IDF response; and a viral cartoon aimed at persuading religious women to opt out of army service to avoid boredom, ennui and sexual harassment.

We discuss why lots of folks seem to agree with equation of White-Supremacist claims and Zionism; Israeli taxpayers paying for parents to band together to build their own school; and the weird political coalition that supports decriminalization of pot.

We discuss the tragic events at the Bedouin Village of Umm Al-Hiran; the surprisingly growing popularity of Israel’s center left; and t-shirts printed up for fun by IDF soldiers displaying all sorts of sexist and bigoted images.

We discuss taking to the streets and demanding the resignation of PM Netanyahu; whether Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman means the same thing we do when we say “Two State Solution”; and a recent exposure of low-level debauchery in Israeli youth movements.

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.