Israel Studies scholar and professor Sara Sara Hirschhorn, activist, Haaretz-writer and media-whiz Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida, and Noah Efron 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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Carmen and the Devil

Is Israel’s Labor Party, once the epicenter of toxic Ashkenazihood, the new Shas?

Two Tales of Settlements

Were we wrong all along about Israel’s settler movement?

Do the Ends Justify the Mean?

Is being a kind-of-a-dick to the Prime Minister’s kid justified, because the Prime Minister is kind-of-a-dick to the rest of us?

Burn It Down to Build It Up

For our most extremely generous Patreon supporters, we discuss whether or not the time has come to burn our syllabi, rip up our lecture notes, and change the way Israeli universities work from the bottom up.

All this and the hippest-hoppest rap of Numi!

Music

Numi (Numi being Noam Cohen)

• Zeh Lo Ani
• Bayit
• Esh
• Zot she-Ahavti