The Promised Podcast

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. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —Idol in the Sanctuary— Are ultra-Orthodox attacks on Labor Party candidate, Reform Rabbi Gilad Kariv, legitimate political scrabbling, or some weird sort of...

Allison Kaplan Sommer, Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida, Sally Abed and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —Likud, 2021: What's Left of the Right?— Some longtime Likudniks lament that the party ain't what it used to be. If that's true, then what i...

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. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —Lapidary Matters— So maybe Yair Lapid is more than a pretty-boy empty suit? —Day in Court— The International Criminal Court says that Palestine is a state an...

Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron and  Standing Together 's Sally Abed discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —Failure to Launch— Why did so many men starting so many center-left parties end up with electile disfunction? —Anyone But Them— The bigges...

Allison Kaplan Sommer, Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —New Labor, Again?— Did we eulogize the Labor Party too soon? —Acting Big?— PM Netanyahu unveils a plan to give most Israelis a pile of free cash, just...

Allison Kaplan Sommer, Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —Helsinki, Helsinki— Israel's top bioethics board says that PM Netanyahu's deal to give Pfizer data on everyone who got the vaccinated is illegal, becau...

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. Listen to the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —Bezalel and Naftali Love You Very Much— Is there no room anymore for "religious Zionist" parties in the Knesset? —Lift My Eyes Unto the Hills— Idealists...

Allison Kaplan Sommer, Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —Party Time!— Five new center-left parties launched last week, and there are more on the way this week. Why are lefty parties sprouting like mushrooms a...

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. —DNR for Labor?— Is pulling the plug on Israel's Labor Party the only decent thing to do? —In Seeking Peace, Might Less Be More?— Would Israelis and Palestinians be better off, if Americans stopped trying to broker gr...

Allison Kaplan Sommer, Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Listen to the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment   —Elections, Infections & Abjections— Is the collapse of Israel's government a good thing, in a They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Sort of way? —Vaccination Lament...

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. Listen To the Extra-Special, Special Extra Patreon Segment —Casablanca Dreamin'— Might peace between Morocco and Israel be kinda a game changer? —Netanyahu's Man in the Islamic Movement— Is Prime Minister Netanyahu's...

Times of Israel Ops & Blogs editor Miriam Herschlag, Allison Kaplan Sommer and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Donate to the Tel Aviv Crisis Center's crowdsource campaign Listen To the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon —"Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On"— Gideon Sa'ar, an aco...

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. Listen to the extra segment on Patreon —An Irony Wrapped in a Prevarication Inside a Mendacity— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants new elections but votes against them; Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz does n...

Host of TLV1's Tel Aviv Review, Gilad Halpern, Allison Kaplan Sommer and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. —Sub-Committee?— Minister of Defense and Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz's sets up a to investigate corruption in the purchase of German submarines and ships, that may implicate th...

Times of Israel Ops & Blogs Editor Miriam Herschlag, 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. Listen to this week's Extra Segment on Patreon —The Vaxx— When Pfizer announced last week that its vaccine looks good, PM Netanyahu got on the horn and negotiated a deal to buy a mess of...

Times of Israel Ops & Blogs Editor Miriam Herschlag, Wunderkind Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. —What Was That?— Trump will soon be the 45th ex-President of the United States. Did his turbulent four years in office change Israel in ways that will last? —New Left?— A...

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. —9,499 Kilometers— Washington lies 9,499 kilometers from Jerusalem, and yet the politics of the one affects the politics of the other. What, if anything, can we learn from the mess of American politics about the mess...

Times of Israel Ops & Blogs Editor Miriam Herschlag, Wunderkind Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida, All-star Haaretz writer Allison Kaplan-Sommer, NGO-maven-and-story-teller Don Futterman, Dan-David-Prize Czar Charlotte Halle, and ne'er-do-well Noah Efron tell stories of life and love in this place they call home, all previously aired, for quality control purposes. (That's how much we care about your listening e...

Times of Israel Ops & Blogs Editor Miriam Herschlag, Wunderkind Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. —How Do You Solve a Problem Like Rav Kanievsky?— Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox kids are going each day to schools that are required by law to be closed, in maybe th...

Times of Israel Ops & Blogs Editor Miriam Herschlag, 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. Become a Patron! —Exit Strategy— The government approves a plan to get out of Covid lockdown in nine easy stages. But will it work? —I Am Breathing on You— Novelist and editor Ruth Almog...

Times of Israel Ops & Blogs Editor Miriam Herschlag, wunderkind critic Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida 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 People Doth Protest Too Much!— In confining demonstrations to 1,000 meters from each protestor's home, did the government just do permanent damage to Israeli...

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. —Who Shall Live— As Israel's hospitals are overwhelmed with Covid patients, how do doctors decide who gets a ventilator and who doesn't? —AOC, AOC, Won't You Fight for Me?— Is AOC not that into us? —Make Me a Match— W...

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 Other Deal of the Century— Should Prime Minister Netanyahu get amnesty from prosecution for corruption in exchange for resigning? —RBG for She and We— Israel's Former Minister of Justice, Ayelet Shaked, says she...

Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron and Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. --It Never Bahrains, But It Pours!-- Did this week's historic signing of historic agreements at the historic White house set us upon new historic path? --An Exceptional Lockdown-- Do praying and protesting trump...

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. Click here to listen to this week's extra-special, special extra patron-only segment --But What Future?-- What does the Greek-tragic struggle over leadership of the Yesh Atid ("There is a Future") party say about the...