Episodes 660
Avg. Duration 1h 14m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.7 (423)
Since Oct 2013
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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42%
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About This Podcast

An inside view of how Israel can warm your heart and make your blood boil. It's a show hosted by folks 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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Recent Episodes

S15E35 The "Linkages" Edition

Jun 11, 2026 1h 23m

Allison and Noah talk about: 1) Our strange, short, truncated warlet with Iran this week, and 2) New findings that point to a weird entanglement between Israeli attitudes towards climate change and…

S15E34 The "Saw It on YouTube!" Edition

Jun 04, 2026 1h 14m

Allison and Noah talk about President Yitzhak Herzog's alarmed warning that we are turning into animals, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's very viral election ad, about how leftist-wing sorts…

S15E33 The "Fronts" Edition

May 28, 2026 1h 28m

Linda, Noah and Judah Ari Gross talk about the war with Iran and the peace with Gaza, and how US President Donald Trump's diplomatic ADD makes it close to impossible for anything good to come of our…

S15E32 The "Can the Center Hold?" Edition

May 20, 2026 1h 51m

Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron try to make sense of why long-time allies and fellow-travelers of former Alternate Prime Minister and former IDF Chief-of-Staff Benny Gantz have lately left the Blue…

S15E31 The "Paths to Perdition" Edition

May 14, 2026 1h 40m

Miriam, Noah, and Deputy Director of the Geneva Initiative Tehila Wenger talk about: 1) The controversial opinion piece in the Times suggesting that Israeli guards and soldiers sexually assault…

S15E30 The "School Daze" Edition

May 07, 2026 1h 46m

Allison, Noah and (for some of the time) special star-ringer Professor Gordon Lafer talk about: 1) How the war with Iran seems to have quickened a surprisingly close strategic relationship between…

S15E29 The "This Feeling is Called Hope" Edition

Apr 30, 2026 1h 21m

Linda and Noah talk about 1) President Yitzhak Herzog's split-the-baby reply to Prime Minister Netanyahu's request for a pardon, saying he will host and mediate plea bargain negotiations: Is this…

S15E28 The "Men & Gods" Edition

Apr 23, 2026 1h 34m

Miriam Herschlag and Noah Efron talk about 1) The imposed cease-fires, and whether Israelis ought to worry we're becoming a vassal state, and 2) What explains why an IDF soldier thought it was right,…

S15E27 The "Bombs and Balms" Edition

Apr 16, 2026 1h 33m

Allison and Noah talk about 1) Whether or not, as an essay in the New York Times suggests, war has become "not a strategy but the norm" for Israel, (2) The World Happiness Reports finding that…

S15E26 The "War is Over! (If You Ignore a Thing or Two)" Edition

Apr 09, 2026 1h 35m

Linda and Noah talk about: 1) The abrupt, maybe fleeting, end to the war with Iran, and what it means, and 2) The "Death Penalty for Terrorists" law recently passed by the Knesset (and destined to be…

S15E25 The "Egypt Within Us" Edition

Apr 01, 2026 1h 29m

Linda, Noah and journalist Judah Ari Gross discuss: 1) the Jewish thugs attacking, hurting and terrorizing Palestinians on the West Bank and, relatedly, 2) what our exodus story needs to be this…

S15E24 The "Radio Days" Edition

Mar 26, 2026 32m

Ninety years ago this week, Hebrew was heard on airwaves as the Voice of Jerusalem had its first broadcast. The feint echoes of the thing are worth listening for today.

S15E23 The "Confounded, Unbounded & Undergrounded" Edition

Mar 19, 2026 1h 43m

In this gala return of the Podcast, Miriam and Noah talk about (A) What this thing with Iran is, (1) Whether these days we're seeing a new, more Strangelovian Prime Minister Netanyahu, and (2) What…

S15E22 The "Ran's Sheloshim" Edition

Feb 26, 2026 1h 2m

Today marks the thirtieth day since we buried Ran Gvili, the hostage who came home last. The thirty day mark, the Sheloshim, signifies the end of the period of intense mourning. It may also be taken…

S15E21 The "'We Did Nothing Special': Remembering Uri Lupolianski" Edition

Jan 22, 2026 1h 5m

Uri Lupolianski was the first ultra-Orthodox mayor of Jerusalem, and he was convicted of corruption. A week after his death, Noah says that he was also a reflection of all of us, at our imperfect…

S15E20 The "Candles in the Wind and Candles in the Window" Edition

Dec 18, 2025 1h 26m

In this last episode before our two month break (save for an occasional special, check your feed!) Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron talk about (1) What to make about Bondi Beach and the many, many…

S15E19 The "Aftermaths" Edition

Dec 11, 2025 1h 43m

Allison, Don and Noah talk about (1) whether we are being buffeted by what some experts call a "mental health tsunami," after all that has happened, and (2) the decision by members of Kibbutz Be'eri…

S15E18 The "Pardon Me?" Edition

Dec 04, 2025 1h 48m

Miriam and Noah talk about (1) the Prime Minister's request that the President pardon him, to put an end to our long, national downer, and (2) what to make of the movie, The Sea, which took all the…

S15E17 The "Old Ends & New Beginnings" Edition

Nov 27, 2025 1h 31m

Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron talk about (1) our slow slouch seemingly back towards war on four fronts – Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Iran – why is it happening and where might it lead? and (2) what to…

S15E16 The "Keeping the Peace?" Edition

Nov 20, 2025 1h 31m

Allison and Noah talk about (1) the spike in thuggish thuggery of young Jewish thugs, throwing rocks, beating with sticks, setting fires, sparking fear among Palestinians on the West Bank, and also…

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