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 17 hours 25 minutes
Press, Profs & Passports
Should academics and intellectuals play a more significant roll in Israeli politics? And the ambivalent comforts of holding two passports. All this and more with Allison, Don, and Noah - including Israeli tribute songs to the Beatles.
Ayatollah Strangelove
Allison, Don, Eilon and Noah discuss: Settlers who say they’ll stay put, even if Israel withdraws and they find themselves in Palestine; Whether “medical tourism” is a way to stave off the collapse of Israel's medical system;...
Big, big love
Allison, Don, Eilon and Noah discuss: whether polygamy is rampant and unimpeded among the Bedouin of the Negev; the recent finding that the half-life of ethnic neighborhoods in Israel is shorter than almost anywhere else on earth; and the...
Protocols of the Elders of Whom?
Allison, Don, Eilon and Noah discuss: Rights, civil and human — as Shulamit Aloni’s death leaves us to wonder about the fate of the discourse of “rights” that she did so much to advance Whether there is really no...
The “Poindexter for President?” Edition
Allison, Don, Eilon and Noah discuss: Whether, with the Middle East in flames around us, Israel ought to adopt a “Castle Strategy” The kerfuffle around whether universities should switch to English Whether Israel’s...
Dispatches from the war on poverty
Allison, Don, Eilon and Noah discuss: Whether the age of the great military hero turned political leader is gone forever Why Israel’s “War on Poverty” may become a civil war (with special guest, the one and only Emily...
The curious case of the rabbis who didn’t bark
Allison, Don, Eilon and Noah discuss: Why Israel’s adoption of arguably the most liberal abortion policy in the world has been silently accepted by the rabbis. What PM Netanyahu means when he demands that Palestinian accept Israel as a...
The “Best Laid Plans of Mice & Men” Edition
Allison, Don, Eilon and Noah discuss: all that’s gone down since then PM Ariel Sharon proposed unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, ten years ago this week the rise of chickenshit show-politics how Israeli workers are watched,...
The “Trials and Errors” Edition
Allison, Don and Noah discuss: the light sentence given the officer who bashed the face of a peace activist with the butt of his gun the tragic struggle over a three-year old Ethiopian boy between two families who love him whether the consensus that...
The 'Connect the Seas, Being Free & Crap TV' Edition
Eilon, Noah and The Times of Israel’s Miriam Herschlag discuss (1) the proposed Red Sea-Dead Sea pipeline, and whether along with water, peace may flow through the pipe; (2) why and how US college kids are challenging Hillel to allow more...