A year has passed, a new year is here, but still nothing is clear.

Elul is here and people all over the country are keeping the before-the-high-holidays tradition of saying Selihot, asking for forgiveness and offering atonement. All this as rockets and planes fly, and bombs fall

We discuss: 1) The stunning attack-by-pager that left dozens of Hezbollah militiamen dead and thousands maimed and wounded 2) The fights over how to mark the first anniversary of Oct. 7th

We discuss: 1) Why a spit of land called “the Philadelphi corridor” is suddenly a matter of life and death 2) What to make of the Civil Commission of the Disaster of October 7, that has lately appointed itself and begun hearing witnesses each day

For 331 days, Rachel Goldberg-Polin went everywhere, spoke to everyone and did everything to save her son, Hersh

703 IDF soldiers have fallen since October 7th. Each was an entire world. This is a small bit of the story of one of them, Zachariah Haber

We discuss: 1) New polls showing that, if elections were held today, Israel’s next PM would be Naftali Bennett 2) How and why war is making the most secular Israelis more secular, and less-secular-Israelis less secular

We discuss: 1) Netanyahu’s big interview in Time Magazine, and what we learn from it about him and about us 2) The surprising rise of Netanyahu’s standing in polls, even though this has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year

We discuss: 1) When and whether “targeted killing” (aka, assassination) is o.k. 2) Whether or not we are facing the threats from Iran and Lebanon with a sufficiently stiff upper lip

We discuss: 1) The awful, heartbreaking attack on Majdal Shams, and whether it will lead to all-out war 2) What the tragedy tells us about the identity and place of Druze folks here in Israel