An inside view of how Israel can warm your heart and make your blood boil. It’s a show by a journalist, a professor and an NGO professional who live in and love Israel even though it drives them crazy, and who each week discuss the latest in Israeli politics, culture, and society.
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The Exoneration, Importation & Secularization Edition
Allison, Eilon, Don and Noah discuss (1) the dramatic exoneration of MK Avigdor Lieberman of charges of “breach of trust” on the part of a three judge panel, a verdict that brought to a swift end a languorously slow (17 year) investigation and trial; (2) the IDFs decision to buy boots from American factories, which amounted to a death sentence for a local factory and firings for its hundred employees, and (3) the spate of recent legislation reducing the power of rabbis, and amounting to what one journalist called a “slow-moving legislative revolution is taking place that may dramatically change how Israelis live their lives