The Promised Podcast

Noah Efron, Don Futterman, and roving reporter extraordinaire Naomi Zeveloff discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Help support the show. Learn how on  Patreon . Unscrewed Why do members of Israel's secular and Mizrahi right not seem to feel the sense of grievance often attributed to them, and why do relat...

Noah Efron, Don Futterman, 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. Help support the show. Learn how on  Patreon . Body Politic Five Islamic Jihad militants were killed when the tunnel they burrowed to attack an Israeli kibbutz was destroyed. Should Isra...

Noah Efron, Tel Aviv Review host Gilad Halpern, and Ha'aretz International Director Charlotte Hallé discuss the centennial of the Balfour Declaration which was controversial then and remains so today, the assertion of some leaders of Meretz that the party is no longer Zionist, and a Supreme Court ruling allowing stores to stay open on the Sabbath. Help support the show. Learn how on  Patreon . Bal...

Noah Efron, Times of Israel Ops & Blogs Editor Miriam Herschlag, and Tel Aviv Review host Gilad Halpern discuss discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Help support the show. Learn how on Patreon . Ruvi Rivlin's Presidential Address of Existential Distress President Reuven Rivlin made a chilling start-of-the...

Noah Efron, Don Futterman, and Ha'aretz reporter Dina Kraft discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Help support the show. Learn how on Patreon . A Separate Peace The two battling Palestinian ruling parties – Hamas and Fatah – reconcile. What does it augur for Palestinians, Israelis, and other living things?...

Noah Efron, Don Futterman, 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 . "A Girl, and I Shoot Well!" There is a remarkable new documentary web series following three young women living in far flung parts of...

Noah Efron, Don Futterman, and roving reporter extraordinaire 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 . Martial Mercy for Military Manslaughter? IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot decided to reduce by 4 months the sentence of Elor Azaria, the sol...

Noah Efron, Don Futterman, 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 . Poll: Netanyahu is the Best PM and also a Liar who Must Resign! The first public opinion poll of the new year serves us up a mess of c...

Noah Efron, Don Futterman, and roving Middle East reporter extraordinaire 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 . Serving God and Country The Supreme Court has rejected the government's present policy of (effectively) allowing mass exemptions...

Noah Efron, Don Futterman, and International Director of Ha'aretz Charlotte Hallé 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 . Keeping Up With the Netanyahus (or, Reality Bites) The first family is full of reality-TV foibles as lady Sara Netanyahu faces indictme...

Noah Efron, Don Futterman, 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 . Nabi Saleh, 1:15 a.m. Al Jazeera published a video of IDF soldiers searching a West Bank Palestinian home. What, if anything, can we l...

Noah Efron, Don Futterman, 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 . A Protest Stressed, Compressed, and Messed, all at the Supreme Court's Behest There's a brouhaha over whether, when and where protest...

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 o...

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:...

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 cent...

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...

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...

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...

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 su...

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, th...

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....

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 organi...

Noah, Don and Allison (joined by uber-researcher to the stars, Amit Ashkenazi) discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Is the Man Israel Needs a Moroccan, Ultra-Orthodox Woman? The only female candidate to head the Labor Party is Dina Dayan, an ultra-Orthodox woman from the nether reaches of the Negev Desert...

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. Climate Change and the Jewish Question: We'll Always Have Paris? We discuss whether climate change is a danger to Israel's very existence, and whether America's withdrawal from the Paris Accord is a blow to Israel's security. Anthologizing the Occ...

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. That War We discuss how we ought to regard the momentous Six Day War, the fiftieth anniversary of which we mark this week. MK = Meager Kapabilities? We mull over a survey raising questions about how effective Members of Knesset are. University Div...