The Promised Podcast

Noah, The Tel Aviv Review's Dahlia Scheindlin, and roving freelance journalist Naomi Zeveloff discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Looking to support the show? Learn how on Patreon. Making War Prime Minister Netanyahu attempts to reduce the number of government ministers who must approve a declaration of war, which some see as Strangelovean megalomania. Lanyard, Color War and Rocket Propelled Grenades: The Things I Learned at Camp New "camps" for tourists that teach firearms, explosives and other deadly arts are popping up in Israel. What are we to make of them? Alternative Facts about Trees and Shrubs There is a surprisingly vicious debate over trees and shade taking place over who ought to decide what to plant, when, and where. Music: All songs from Ha-Tishma Koli (גלגלצ במחווה לאלבום ״החלונות הגבוהים״) Kol ha-Shavua Lakh, Eliad Zemer Noga (Ha-Tishma Koli), Dana Spector and Alon Geva Ahavah Rishonah, Dikla Eifo Hem Kol Avoteinu, Yishai Ribo

Noah, host of TLV1's The Tel Aviv Review Gilad Halpern, and Times of Israel Ops & Blogs editor Miriam Herschlag discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Looking to support the show? Learn how on Patreon. How Much is Too Much Corruption? There are corruption charges against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: how seriously should we take them? Summer of Godlessness Over the summer, parents' groups formed across the country aiming to keep religion out of their kids' schools. Charlottesville and Jerusalem Do Israelis, as Israelis, have any special responsibility to act or any message to deliver about the Nazi narishkeit in Charlottesville and the White House? Music: Chen Levy, in honor of her forthcoming debut record "Chen Levy," who is having a gala pre-release show next week at Levontin 7: On the Sunny Side of the Street Down With It Hide and Seek All of Me

Allison, Noah, and host of TLV1's The Tel Aviv Review Gilad Halpern discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Looking to support the show? Learn how on Patreon. Yair in the Middle Prime Minister candidate Yair Lapid argues that centrism is the new black with a middle-of-the-road, moderation-in-all-things centrist manifesto. Psychiatric Chic Two weird-ass initiatives aim to de-stigmatize mental illness, but probably say more about our anxieties about it than about our open-mindedness towards it. Women of Influence What does the Forbes list of the fifty most influential Israeli women say about the state of gender, sex, and sexism in 2017? Music: All songs by Yishai Ribo 'Im Nin'alu Kol Dodi Ha-Nisayon Ha-Zeh Gam Ki-Elekh

You're looking for The Promised Podcast Patreon page, aren't you? Allison, Noah, and host of TLV1's The Tel Aviv Review Gilad Halpern discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Netanyahu's Trump Card Benjamin Netanyahu has borrowed the war against "Fake News." Are Israelis buying the idea of a media conspiracy against the Prime Minister and all that is sacred and pure? Water Bottles Everywhere, and Not a Drop to Drink Drinking fountains have disappeared from Israel's cities. Does this have to do with the gears of capitalism being greased with the blood of the workers? When the Bands Stopped Playing Why have bands vanished from Israel's hit parades, replaced by solo singers? Music: Yuar (Arina Popova and Yury Poisik), from their EP Signal, marking the free show they're doing this week at The Container in the Jaffa port: Perfect Miracle Song about You Superlove

Don, Noah, and Times of Israel Ops & Blogs editor Miriam Hershlag discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Sacred Sites, Fights, and Plights Frightful tensions are mounting over the Temple Mount/Haram al Sharif: are we teetering at the edge of religious war? Moving Up? New research finds that the path for the poor into the upper-middle class is twisty and perverse. The Queer Thing about Israel's LGBTQ What is it about the struggle for LGBTQ rights that especially inspires so much support and sympathy in Israel? Music: Ground Heights, in honor of their blowout show this week at the Container in Jaffa! Aynoche Esh Feta Feta In Disguise

Don, Noah, and roving freelance journalist Naomi Zeveloff discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. A Tale of Two 'One Percents' A study found that Israel has two 'one-percents,' an economic elite and a political elite, each screwing us in their own way. Movin' Pictures The radical, political 'Cinematheque' in Tel Aviv seems to be going mainstream, abandoning provocation for entertainment. But is that what an avant garde art emporium is for? BDS? There's an App for hat Now! A new government funding app is meant to encourage young people to undo BDS: it's Facebook meets Tinder meets Pokemon Go meets Spy vs. Spy meets Hasbara. What are we to make of a thing like that? Music: Avigail Koevary, in honor of her turning thirty, and in honor of the show in honor of her turning thirty this week at Levontin 7. Polin Mesha'amem li Hibbuk, with Amir ve-Ben Biryon

Allison, Don, and Noah discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. From Board Room to Barricades: The Unlikely New Leader of Israel's Left Avi Gabbay emerged from obscurity to head the Labor Party and, perforce, the Israeli Left in a shocking upset. What the hell just happened? Praying to No God What does the surprising rise of "secular prayer" among Israeli Jews say about the state of our souls? Jews with Javelins! The Maccabiah Games have inexplicably (but charmingly) survived the years. Like cotillions, High Table at Oxford in full medieval regalia, and Scottish weddings in kilts, the Games seem like a living time capsule. Music: Alon Eder ve-ha- lahakah, off their newest, Ha-Shamranim Shuv ba-Ofnah Al Ta-azov Oti Mili Hayu Yamim Yafim Ha-Yom be-Yisrael

Allison, Don, and Noah discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. New Labor? Round one of the Labor Party leadership elections left the old elites thoroughly thrashed. What does the future hold for the Left now? The Broken Man who Broke Israeli Politics It was a sad spectacle to see a diminished Ehud Olmert, the first Prime Minister convicted of a felony, being released from jail. Is he partly responsible for our cynicism about politicians? Offshore Palestinians It's a fantabulous utopian idea: building a high-tech, artificial island of Gaza with an airport, seaport, power plant, desalination center, and more. Will this solve Gaza's humanitarian crisis? Music: Hanan Ben-Ari, in honor of his forthcoming album, which we're hearing bit by bit. Wikipedia Todah She-At Tutim Simu lev

Noah, Don, and Times of Israel Ops & Blogs Editor Miriam Herschlag discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. We Got the Power Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas demanded that Israel reduce the electricity it transfers to Gaza by almost half, leaving hospitals there unsure if can keep their ventilators going. Israel acquiesced. The move may weaken Hamas, but can such a thing possibly be justified? Covering the Dead Do we pay too much attention to the tragic victims of terrorist attacks, at the expense of other things to which we ought to also be giving our consideration? Pile of Stones The dispute continues over egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall, following the government's decision not to implement its earlier decision to build a section at the Wall for liberal Jews to pray and slip their own notes to God between the stones. Should progressive Jews care about the wall, anyway? All songs by Lior Perla, in honor of his new single, Al Telkhi Al Telkhi Shoom Davar Ve'im Gam Amarti (with Ido Mosseri) Ha-Lev ha-Zeh

Noah, Don and Allison discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Primum non nocere? Medical experiments were performed on Yemeni Jewish babies and kids in the early 1950s. What does this awful news tell us about ourselves and what should we do about it now? Uppity Americans? American Jewish activists are organizing and taking direct political action in Israel, but some Israeli Leftists think that these foreigners may be getting too big for their britches. A Cabinet of Experts There is a proposal to install "experts" instead of politicians as key cabinet ministers. All songs by Miriam Tukan, off her EP, which, in an amazing coincidence, is also named Miriam Toukan! Tziltzulay Pa'amonim Sodkha We Are Young (Fun Cover), Featuring SAZ نحن جيل الشباب Mawal