The Promised Podcast

The “Things Change (or They Don’t)” Edition

03.07.2019 - By TLV1 StudiosPlay

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Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron and Don Futterman discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. The Bombshell was a Dud A week after the Attorney General announced he’d be indicted for bribery and breach of trust, PM Netanyahu is more popular than before. Why? أعتقد أن الأطفال هم مستقبلنا (I Believe Our Children are the Future) More and more Israelis are sending their kids to Arabic-Hebrew bilingual schools. Are parents pursuing peace with their tots? Long Ago, in the Cowshed An American-Israeli posts on Facebook that Benny Gantz, who is challenging Netanyahu for Israelis premiership, exposed himself to her 42 years ago, when they were both in high school. Now what? Extra Patron Segment For our most generous Patreon supporters, we discuss in our extra-special, special extra segment a recent essay in Haaretz by Anschel Pfeffer, on-the-nosedly headlined, “After Replacing Netanyahu, Gantz's Party Will Self-destruct. And That's OK.” But is it really OK? Music By child reality star turned teenage internet star turned just normal-old-23-year-old-pop-star, Shira Margalit! Hey, Niv Imma Tzodeket Tamid Od Lo Ba ve-Holekh

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