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 34: The “There’s Something About Romi!” Edition
Sally Abed, 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.
Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon
—Our Bennett-factor—
The liberal, center-left newspaper Haaretz endorses Naftali Bennett, a privatize-anything-that-moves and annex-anything-God-promised-to-us-in-the-Bible right wing ideologue, as our next prime minister. What gives?
—Jaffa, Lit—
Jaffa explodes in violence and protest. What and who are to blame?
—Hebrew & Me—
Maybe the most intimate question we know: What does Hebrew mean to us?
—The Demonstrations and Violence in Jaffa: A First-Hand Look—
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion, we hear from Sally, who was arrested at one of the Jaffa demonstrations last week, what the demonstrations was like, what the arrest was like, and whether doing hard time really hardens a woman, like in the movies. Also, how bad is prison hooch, really?
All that and the great debut EP of the one-and-only Romi Mor!