We discuss: 1) Whether the time has come for the heads of Israel’s decomposing gov’t to say, “when” 2) Why one ex-PM is suing another ex-PM for defamation of character, and what it says about the character of Israeli politics

We discuss: 1) The failure of the government to renew the “temporary provisional regulations” that allow settlers to live across the Green Line under Israeli law 2) Israel’s biggest reality show, “Marriage at First Sight,” which just betrothed two hunky, dreamy guys

We discuss: 1) A plan to set up Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine by 2030, with schools, hospitals, trains, sewage plants and all the rest 2) How Jerusalem alienates people in Tel Aviv-Jaffa and elsewhere around the country

We discuss: 1) MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi quitting the coalition, threatening to topple the gov’t, only to rejoin 3 days later 2) The vicious debate over a bill to pay tuition for discharged combat soldiers 3) Whether Wagner should now be played in Israel

We discuss: 1) What an Israeli Jew should make of Nakba Day 2) A shocking report saying that high-tech might be causing Israel all sorts of damage, which is why we need more of it 3) What, if anything, we learn about Zionism and Israeli politics from the book, The Netanyahus

We discuss: 1) The killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh 2) Whether Israel’s no-longer-majority governing coalition ought to throw in the towel 3) Whether a weak climate change mitigation bill is better or worse than no bill at all

Allison, Don, Ohad, Amit, Linda, Jeremy & Noah talk about what Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day, means to them, on the eve of Israel’s 74th.

We discuss: 1) The violence at the holiest sites in Jerusalem, and everywhere else 2) The end of the government’s mask mandate 3) Whether or not it is possible to have a Holocaust Remembrance Day that is Israeli and not just Jewish

In this very-special episode, Noah tells the story of a kibbutz that surrendered to the Egyptian army in 1948, and the wounds that have never really healed

We discuss: 1) Whether families of terrorists should pay for the crimes of a loved one 2) Whether we need to change how we bury our dead 3) How we understand the main Passover commandment – to see ourselves as if we ourselves left Egypt, in this moment of viruses and violences, of refugees and unrest