The “Changing Fortunes” Edition Photo: Yossi Zamir/Flash90
Allison Kaplan Sommer, 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.
Acting Big?
PM Netanyahu unveils a plan to give most Israelis a pile of free cash, just weeks before elections. Is that necessarily a bad thing?
How Will We Come Out of This?
With one in three Israelis vaccinated, maybe it’s time to figure out what life will be like when this is all over.
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion, after marking this week’s “International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust,” we wonder what it means to have two Holocaust days, one for the world (and not for us), and one for us (and not for the world). Would we be better off if the two were combined?
The “Shots & Tots” Edition Photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
Allison Kaplan Sommer, 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.
Helsinki, Helsinki
Israel’s top bioethics board says that PM Netanyahu’s deal to give Pfizer data on everyone who got the vaccinated is illegal, because it amounts to a massive human experiment that was never approved by, well, Israel’s top bioethics board. Should the deal be vacated?
Jenin, Jenin
A judge orders confiscation of the 2002 movie “Jenin, Jenin” – a record of Palestinian accounts of the IDFs 2002 incursion into that city – while still letting the movie stream on Youtube. Is there any sense to that verdict?
The “Party Time!” Edition Photo: Miriam Alster/Flash90
Allison Kaplan Sommer, 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.
Party Time!
Five new center-left parties launched last week, and there are more on the way this week. Why are lefty parties sprouting like mushrooms after a spring rain?
Going for Netanyahu in Droves?
Prime Minister Netanyahu hints that he’s eager for an Islamicist party to join his coalition after the elections. Is this a turning-point in the history of Israeli politics?
The “Might Less Be More?” Edition Photo: Matty Stern/U.S. Embassy Jerusalem
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.
DNR for Labor?
In Seeking Peace, Might Less Be More?
Would Israelis and Palestinians be better off if Americans stopped trying to broker grand peace accords?
What’s So Wrong with Law & Liberty
A group of conservative lawyers in Israel, following the lead of America’s Federalist Society, play the long-game to change Israel’s courts beyond recognition. Is that a bad thing?
The “Age of Miracle and Wonder Women” Edition Photo: Nati Shohat/FLASH90
Allison Kaplan Sommer, 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.
Elections, Infections & Abjections
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? sort of way?
Vaccination Lamentation
New Jewess