We discuss: 1) Bibi’s promise to fully fund ultra-Orthodox schools, whatever they teach 2) A new documentary about women in the Knesset 3) What were the most important things that happened here over the year that is now ending!

We discuss: 1) What the National Unity Party’s candidate list says about what it stands for 2) The angry debate over a high school principal’s invitation of far-right MK Itamar Ben-Gvir to speak to her students 3) The hottest new party on the scene, “Enflamed Youth”

A father trying to explain to his kids (and himself) why, because of his long-ago choice, they grew up in Israel

What better way to make the end of summer than by celebrating that city we love so well, Tel Aviv-Jaffa?!?

We discuss: 1) The primaries in Meretz 2) The primaries in the Religious Zionism Party 3) Whether holding primaries produces better results than the more autocratic methods that most of the parties use

We discuss: 1) The primaries in Labor, and what they say about the heart-and-soul of the party 2) The primaries in the Likud, and what they say about the heart-and-soul of the party 3) Palestinian President Abbas’s statement in Berlin that Israel has perpetrated “fifty Holocausts”

We discuss: 1) How we can even talk about this week’s battle and bombs in Gaza 2) What to make of the new documents shedding new light on an old 1956 atrocity

We discuss: 1) The new “Zionist Spirit” party 2) A judge’s order to force a woman into protective custody when her ex and his family threatens her life 3) A study that says the average weight of IDF inductees has gone up 10 kg in 4 decades

We discuss: 1) Whether or not PM Lapid’s “No Extremists!” election campaign has bigoted “dog-whistles” 2) Whether or not there is a “joy disparity” between the happy-go-lucky right and the bummed-out left

We discuss: 1) The surprising rise in popularity of far-right MK Itamar Ben-Gvir 2) The sudden auto-defenestration of the leaders of the liberal-left Meretz Party 3) Whether video-wedding from Utah finally offer a solution to the religious control of weddings in Israel