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 18 hours 51 minutes
episode 11: The “Things Change” Edition
Allison Kaplan Sommer, Don Futterman and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. —Lessons— What can Israelis learn from October 7 about the...
episode 12: The “Our Tragedy & Theirs” Edition
Allison Kaplan Sommer, Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. —Our Tragedy & Theirs— Should our papers, shows and...
episode 13: The “Moral and Immoral Dilemmas” Edition
Allison Kaplan Sommer, Don Futterman and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. —Trolley Problems— If the two goals of the war –...
episode 14: The “First Fifty” Edition
Miriam and Noah talk about the deal struck between Israel and Hamas, via the Qataris and the Americans, that would return 50 hostages, mostly kids and their mothers, in exchange for 150 Palestinian prisoners and a four day cease fire, the execution of...
episode 15: The “Song of War” Edition
Noah takes a break from scrolling and refreshing, to consider the songs of this war (which has produced more music than all of Israel’s past wars rolled into one), and what they say about the country and how it has changed over the years, and for...
episode 16: The “Women & Other Living Things” Edition
Miriam Herschlag, Gilad Halpern and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. —Women & the War— Gender’s gotten weird (even weirder...
episode 17: The “Kids Out, Kids In” Edition
Star journalist Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. —Kids Out— Every day for a week hostages got out of Gaza until,...
episode 18: The “Dogs of War” Edition
William Blake once counselled “to see a world in a grain of sand.” In this very special podcast episode, Noah tries to see our troubled world right now, in a Whatsapp thread or a TikTok “For You.” —The Battalion WhatsApp— —Dog of War—...
episode 19: The “Opinions, Opinions, Opinions!” Edition
Allison Kaplan Sommer, Don Futterman and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. —What They Think About Us— More than half college-age...
episode 20: The “End of Consensus?” Edition
Allison Kaplan Sommer, Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. —Back to the Basics of Bouncing Bibi?— Do you oust the...