Allison Kaplan Sommer, Miriam Herschlag 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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—In Labor—

After its recent primaries, does Labor still look like a party that could ever rule Israel again?

—Likud: The Screwed, Renewed and Netanyahu’ed—

After its recent primaries, has the Likud become a party “of Netanyahu, by Netanyahu and for Netanyahu”?

—Fifty Holocausts—

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says, in Berlin, dumb*ssedly, that Israel has perpetrated “fifty Holocausts.” What, if anything, do we learn from that about the man and the government he represents?

—The Head-Scratching Over How to Translate ממלכתיות—

For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: The new centrist party with former IDF chiefs-of-staff Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot picks a name that just can’t be translated into English. What the hell does this word that David Ben Gurion made up – mamlakhtiut – mean, and how the hell do we translate it to English?

All this and a full-of-love-and-admiration good-bye to Tzvika Pick!