Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron talk about 1) President Yitzhak Herzog’s split-the-baby reply to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s request for a pardon, saying he will host and mediate plea bargain negotiations: Is this clever or craven? 2) The announcement that former Prime Ministers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid will run together in the upcoming elections, with Bennett atop the list, and whether the whole they make is bigger or smaller than the sum of its parts.

For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: After Bennett and Lapid ring the opening bell of the election campaign, we ask ourselves what we expect from the next six months of politicians politicking politically.

Plus new songs with words by lately fallen soldiers, a kid in Beirut who asks the IDF to blow up her school, and talking peace in Area C.

Songs

Songs from the “I Hear Your Voices” project:

• Nunu — La-Hazor la-Shigra (words by Noam Bitton, May his Memory be for a Blessing)
• Yishai Ribo — Ani Shomea et Kolkhem (words by Aharon Farash, May his Memory be for a Blessing)
• Noam Kleinstein — Ahavti Otakh (words by Hod Shriebman, May his Memory be for a Blessing)

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