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Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. You're listening to this podcast, so I know you care about the war in Israel right now.

And you've been reading the headlines, Massacre and Gaza, genocide perpetrated by Hamas, no by Israel.

But if you've been listening to this podcast long enough, you know one thing. This stuff seems complicated and honestly

you shouldn't just pick aside or decide your opinion without really learning,

without really knowing what you're talking about.

And that's where this podcast comes in.

Check out unpacking Israeli history.

They have episodes with topics ranging from what is Hamas anyway to whether Israel should ransom

captured soldiers and the history of Israel and its disengagement from Gaza in 2005. Unpacking Israeli history cuts through the noise

and helps you understand Israel's present through understanding Israel's

history. So educate yourself. Learn the history behind the headlines.

Find unpacking Israeli history wherever you get your podcasts. But it starts somewhere else altogether.

When Edgar Kerret's first collection of short stories,

Tsinorot, was published in 1992,

he wasn't yet Edgar Kerret the award-winning internationally acclaimed

author and screenwriter. He was rather just another 24-year-old from Tel Aviv who

wrote creative, odd, and sometimes disturbing short stories.

And appropriately, perhaps, when Sinoroth first came out, It was basically ignored.

I think it sold about 800 copies. So I think very few bookstores had my book.

So like any other young and eager author, Edga would occasionally pop into a bookstore and check whether or not

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