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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 27 days 20 hours 38 minutes
The conflict? There’s an app for that now
Allison, Don, and Noah discuss: “iNakba,” an iPhone app that aims to put the dispossession of Palestinian homes and villages into your pocket; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pledge to “legally define the Talmud as...
Drawing Lines & Drawing Conclusions
Allison, Don and Noah discuss (1) Why the Conference of Presidents decided to keep J-Street out of their nifty club, and what’ll happen as a result, and (2) Why the proliferating “alternative” ceremonies for Memorial Day and...
Politicizing, Psychologizing & Corporatizing
Show Summary – Allison, Don, Eilon and Noah discuss (1) Whether we are cheapening the memory of the Holocaust by applying it to our present-day politics, (2) Whether the amateur Abbasologists filing newspaper opinion columns have a clue about...
Shutting Down, Mouthing Off & Paying Up
Allison, Don and Noah discuss: Mahmoud Abbas’ two “Hail Mary” plays, either dismantling the Palestinian Authority or joining up with HamasThe new 83 year-old head of the Council of Torah Sages, who gave a crowd-pleasin’...
Peace, Prosperity and Philanthropy
Don, Eilon, and Noah discuss: the growing trend in the army to rely on donations by well-wishers for basic supplies like boots and sockswhy the peace process seems to be gasping its last gaspwhether or not it should bug us that the average CEO in...
We Need the Bread, Man!
Don, Noah, and Miriam Herschlag (Ops & Blogs editor of the Times of Israel) discuss: a new report finding that almost a million Israelis go to bed hungrywhether Israeli leaders ain’t what they used to be, and whywhether or not stores in...
Trading Places, Taking Bribes & Playing with Knives
Allison, Don and Noah discuss (1) whether Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s proposal to exchange blocs of population is sincere or mere smartassery, (2) How do we solve a problem like corruption? (With apologies to Rogers and Hammerstein),...
Power & Money
Show Summary – Allison, Don, Eilon and Noah discuss (1) whether there is (as journalist Yossi Klein Halevi recently wrote) a slowly surfacing, stealthful, steadily swelling, and subtly subversive moderate Center in Israeli politics, (2) why so...
Strange Bedfellows
Don, Eilon and Noah discuss (1) Whether, now that the head of the ultraorthodox Shas party has endorsed Labor Party leader Yitzhak Herzog for Prime Minister, the time has come for the Labor Party to pal up to the haredim, (2) Why Evangelical support...
Peace, Love & Understanding
Former Ambassador Michael Oren’s “Plan B” for unilateral withdrawal – what could go wrong?!?Why MK Adi Kol is being crucified on Facebook for declaring undying love for her party chief, Yair LapidWhy “Good Deeds...