The Promised Podcast – Segment

What Happens Now?

Now that the law limiting the court’s ability to limit the Ministers and cabinet passed, where do we go from here?

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What Happened?

The government passed the law that limits the court’s ability to limit the Ministers and cabinet. So why did the two sides fail to reach compromise, even though all sides said that’s what they wanted?

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And No Religion, Too!

A major documentary seeks to understand the soul of secular Israelis. We seek to understand what we can learn from it about the state of the state

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Jenin, Again

Two weeks ago, thirteen people died in an IDF operation in Jenin that, today, is all but forgotten

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Fortress of Democracy?

There’s a petition asking Israel’s Supreme Court to strip Benjamin Netanyahu of his premiership, a petition based on sound legal arguments. But does anyone really think it would be a good idea for the Court to fire the PM?

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Tradition, Tradition… Tradition!

Are more and more Israelis religion-fluid and Yiddishkeit-queer? A new report says it is so

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Israel’s “Constitutional Moment”?

Is it time for Israel finally to write a founding document, a constitution, 75 years after the country was created?

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Phase Change?

As summer heats up, there’s an escalation of the protests and counter-protests. Looks like it’s going to be a scorching summer

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No More Heroes Anymore?

Now that the writer-prophets, the Ozes and the Yehoshuas, are no longer with us, are we sailing on a ship without a moral compass?

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What’s More Reasonable Than Reasonableness?

PM Netanyahu decided to move forward the judicial reform by passing a law limiting when and how judges can rule based on what seems “reasonable” to them. What, in Israel, has ever been reasonable?

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