Noah Efron, Don Futterman, and Times of Israel Ops & Blogs editor Miriam Herschlag discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.

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Nabi Saleh, 1:15 a.m. Al Jazeera published a video of IDF soldiers searching a West Bank Palestinian home. What, if anything, can we learn from it about the nature of the occupation and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict?

Paper Trail (or in the Gloam with Yisrael Ha-Yom) There was a shocking disclosure that Prime Minister Netanyahu conversed lots with the owner and editor of Israel’s biggest newspaper, the free daily Yisrael Ha-Yom, before elections and many other important news events. Could this possibly be kosher?

From Sex Industry to Ex-Industry? The courts and the Knesset have recently moved to squelch the sex industry: is this blessed feminism or cursed puritanism?

Music: Daphna Recter Ha-Shir Al Ha-aretz Elohimim Yom Tov Thank You, with Tal Ne’eman