the promised podcast

No Prize

Israel’s Education Minister decides not to give the country’s biggest prize to a genius computer theorist because he petitioned the EU to boycott an Israeli university in the territories

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Limited

Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel’s new proposed term-limit law is the sort of law you’d see in Iran, Syria and North Korea. Does he have a point?

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Some of the Best Standards are Double Standards

A supermarket chain charges ultra-Orthodox shoppers a lot less than the rest of us. Is this discrimination, or just market forces doing what they do?

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What Now?

Now that Israel has a budget (after several years of not having a budget), is it smooth sailing from now on?

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Death, Taxes & Traffic

The Knesset’s new “pigovian” congestion tax will make half a million people pay handsomely every time they drive into Tel Aviv. Isn’t it time that someone made Allison pay?

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Breathing Easy

When a COVID patient needs a new lung, should the vaxxed have priority over the unvaxxed?

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