Noah Efron, Don Futterman, and International Director of Ha’aretz Charlotte Hallé 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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Keeping Up With the Netanyahus (or, Reality Bites) The first family is full of reality-TV foibles as lady Sara Netanyahu faces indictment for stealing government monies and first son Yair Netanyahu posts on Facebook an ickily anti-Semitic meme. Should the Prime Minister pay a political price for the zany malefactions of his family?

The Likud is Not a Body that Needs Democracy? The Young Turk “New Likudniks” are trying to take over the party and move it leftward: is that o.k.?

Animal Politics Why does the struggle for animal rights and animal liberation resonate so strongly with so many Israelis?

Music: Alma Zohar, in honor of her moving performance at the big animal march after this past Shabbat. Kol Yom Osher Gadol Etze el ha-Sadeh Yeled Yafeh