What Matters Now

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The panel this week looks at the challenges facing media outlets in accurately and fairly presenting the numbers of those killed in the recent wave of violence and terror attacks.
This week saw gains by so-called moderates in the Iranian parliamentary elections and an announcement from Tehran that it would fund the families of Palestinian terrorists. The panel discusses whether two are compatible.
One day after marking LGBT rights, the coalition nixed five gender equality bills. The panel asks if criticism leveled at openly-gay Likud MK Amir Ohana was fair.
Plus, a look at the mini-diplomatic crisis that flared up this week over comments by the UK's Prime Minister David Cameron describing the situation in East Jerusalem as "shockingly outrageous."
Also on this week's podcast...
Rachel Sharansky Danziger reads part of her blog about her father's release from Soviet prison and tells Miriam Herschlag about her experience growing up with the story and her decision to write about it now.
And...
The Klingers exchanged their urban professions to build a Fountain of Youth on an ancient Nabatean route in the Negev. Times of Israel's culture and lifestyle editor Jessica Steinberg reports on her trip to the tranquil desert retreat.
On this week's panel:
Ops and blogs editor Miriam Herschlag
Military correspondent Judah Ari Gross
Diplomatic correspondent Raphael Ahren
Host and producer: Raoul Wootliff
Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
Music by Ian Alex Mac, BenSound, BlueDot Sessions and MADS.
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