Allison Kaplan Sommer, Don Futterman and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.

--The Coalition Proposition: A Road to Perdition?--

Is the coalition agreement that PM Netanyahu and Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz just signed the end of democracy as we know it, the salvation of Israel, or maybe, just maybe, something in between?

--Timor Mortis-est?--

Is it true what the director of Israel’s Ministry of Health just said, that Israelis have less of a stomach for COVID-19 deaths than folks in other countries, and that that’s a problem?

--What is Israeli?--

Israel’s celebrating our 72nd birthday, and still we’ve gotta aske: What is Israeli?

--Preparing for Civil Unrest?--

For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra segment, we talk about a just-leaked National Security Council report setting out a strategy for dealing with civil insurrection (!), as might break out in response to the coronavirus restrictions. Are corona-frustrations mounting here, like they seem to be in America?

All that and songs by Romy Hanoch (the brilliant daughter of Shalom Hanoch, the godfather of Israeli rock’n’roll).