The Promised Podcast – Segment

The Unsettling Cost of Unsettling

The Israeli government agreed to allocate 130 million NIS ($33.75 million) to the resettlement of the Amona families.

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We Dreamed We were Farmers

The Israeli government recently decided to support homegrown agriculture with taxpayer shekels, though studies point to the policy as economically foolish.

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And as a Parting Gift: UN Security Council Resolution 2334

An international uproar has followed UNSC Resolution 2334’s passage, which dubbed Israeli settlements a flagrant violation of international law.

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Hem-Line Politics

Knesset guards denied entrance to parliamentary aides whose dressed were judged too short, sparking protest.

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You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your ambassador!

David Friedman is President-Elect Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Israel supports the occupation, opposes a two-state solution, and has called leftists “worse than Kapos.”

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Double-Crossing Double X, or The Unbearable Lightness of Cyber-Sexism and On-Line Assholery

A report in Lady Globes described a large-scale research project carried out by the Director of Research into the Public Sphere at the Berl Katznelson Foundation about violence on the Hebrew internet that turned up some concerning statistics.

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Tenured Traitors, or Professors of Perfidy

Minister of Education Naftali Bennett appointed an ethicist to write rules governing when and how professors talk politics at university.

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Lousy Leftists Lack Loyalty

A new Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University Monthly Peace Index found that almost one in two Israeli Jews think that leftists are not loyal to Israel.

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