About this episode
Allison, Don, and Noah discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. What makes Bibi tick? A new essay challenges the leftist article-of-faith that PM Benjamin Netanyahu tacks back and forth out of opportunism and naked ambition. It argues that at the base of everything he does is a bedrock of principle consisting mostly of weird-ass eschatology. School’s out, completely The Tel Aviv Municipality plans to turn a park in a troubled southern neighborhood of the city into a school for refugee kids. Many activists are saying, "Over our dead bodies!" - are they right? Yids online! A new survey of the habits of commerce and recreation of Israeli Modern Orthodox (or "National Religious") Jews finds that they use the internet a good deal more than everyone else. Are Modern Orthodox more "Modern" than Secular Israelis? All songs by the groovy Gili Yalo: Hyloga City Life Sab Sam Ashkeru