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
The “Vision, Fission and Derision” Edition
Eilon, Noah and The Times of Israel’s Miriam Herschlag discuss (1) the sad passing of Nelson Mandela, and Israel’s ambivalent relationship to him, (2) former MK Avraham Burg’s spilling the beans that Israel has nukes, (3) the...
The “Turn, Turn, Turn” Edition
Allison, Eilon and Noah discuss (1) the new head of the Labor Party – “Buzghi” Herzog – and his plans to give peace a chance, (2) the facebookization of the Knesset, and (3) the (figurative and, sadly, literal) death of the old...
Thanksgivukah Extravaganza – Where American and Israeli Cultures Meet
To celebrate the confluence of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah, Allison, Eilon, Don and Noah devote the show to the meetings of American and Israeli cultures. They discuss (1) Why the Conservative Movement is ailing in America, and how it’s doing in...
Threats, Sh*t & Tats
Allison, Eilon and Noah discuss the Supreme Court’s dressing down of the government, the hot mic in the UN that divulged the world’s worst secret - yes, it's about Israel's being unfairly singled out - and Israelis' inking habits, or the...
The Compost, Computers & Competitors Edition
Allison, Eilon, Don and Noah discuss (1) the evaporation (or evisceration) of environmental parties in the last elections – where have all the flower-lovers gone?, (2) the yawning digital divide in Israel, whether this google-gap ought to...
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...
The President and the Pop-Stars
Allison, Eilon, Don and Noah discuss The Palestinian prisoner release and whether it helps or hinders the peace process Education Minister Shay Piron’s decision to start teaching first-graders about the Holocaust and carry on right...
Low election turnout, and the decline in the old hardline Zionist ideology
Allison, Don, Eilon and Noah discuss: this week’s local elections, why fewer and fewer folks come out to vote in them, and what we’re voting about when we bother to vote at all, and our changing attitudes towards citizens who opt out,...