Allison and Noah talk about 1) Whether or not, as an essay in the New York Times suggests, war has become “not a strategy but the norm” for Israel, 2) The World Happiness Reports finding that Israelis remain among the happiest people on earth, including after October 7th: Why is this?

For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: A bunch of writers send a confusing open-letter to the Jewish Book Council saying (we think) that the JBC needs to de-Zionize. What should we make of that?

Plus Yom Hashoah, Yom Ha-Atzmaut and Noga Erez rocking Coachella!

Songs

• Noga Erez — Stuck in Heaven
• Peer Tasi & Hanan Ben Ari — Halevai
• Hagar Yefet — Tehilim u-Dema’ot

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