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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episode 43: The “A Time to Build Up, A Time to Break Down” Edition
Journalist and soon-to-be features editor for the Committee to Protect Journalists, Naomi Zeveloff, wunderkind critic Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
--Does Size Matter?--
Would a small, “symbolic” annexation of lands in the West Bank sidestep the worst consequences of the bigger annexation authorized by the Trump peace plan?
--Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer--
As statues of Columbus get toppled in America, and statues of Leopold II get ripped down in Belgium, are there memorial in Israel we’d be better or mothballing or melting down?
--Gun, Grenade, Mic & Turntable--
Why ’o why does an Army need a radio station?
All that and Roey Rieck and some of Israel’s best indie musicians, in a pandemic project called “Ha-Gal ha-Sheni,” “The Second Wave”!