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.

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—It Ain’t the Economy, Stupid!—

Israel may be the most expensive country in the world, and that fact has zero-zilch-nada impact on politics here. How come?

—Elul, 5783—

Elul is a month of soul-searching. What could we have done better, politically speaking?

—Yair Netanyahu Pays the Price—

For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: The court orders first son Yair Netanyahu to pay 130,000 NIS in damages to a woman he defamed on Twitter. Should people have to pay cash money for their scumbaggery on social?

All that and songs of Elul, to put us in the mood!