A Year Gone Bananas

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Unholy Media

Jonathan Freedland, Society & Culture, Israel, Jews, Documentary, Judaism, News, Middle East, Jewish, News Commentary, Religion & Spirituality, Israel Podcast, Yonit Levi

4.7 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The Hebrew word of the year marks a good way to start 2022. Yonit and Jonathan discuss how Israel is losing its place as the trailblazer on COVID, allowing a more flexible policy on testing and policy of living alongside the pandemic. Benny Gantz is ruffling political feathers meeting with Arab leaders, including Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, cementing his position as an alternative to Bennett and Netanyahu. Also, we talk about the appearance of the Jew-goblins of Harry Potter, courtesy of Jon Stewart. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Unite Levi of Channel 12 in Tel Aviv.
0:14.5	And I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian in London.
0:17.9	And we are unholy, two Jews on the News from Keshepp podcasts. Hi, Jonathan. Happy
0:22.1	2022. We can't say Shenatova. We've talked about that already. Yes, but happy 2020.
0:28.9	To you, a new year, new possibilities, new beginnings. Yes, new year resolutions, which my
0:34.2	resolutions basically don't get COVID. That's what I got, you know, for this
0:38.7	year. Yeah. And, and I think it's true to say you have stuck faithfully to your resolution, right?
0:44.8	I'm right about this. You haven't had it at all. Nope. Not that I know of. No. See, now I haven't had it
0:50.9	at all as well. I think that's less of a big deal in my case because I'm not kind of out and about in the world
0:58.0	quite as much as you're, because you're anchoring the nightly news.
1:01.5	Even in the middle of COVID plus plus, plus, you had to go into a workplace with other people
1:07.1	because of the TV studio.
1:08.6	I didn't have to do that.
1:10.3	Yes.
1:10.5	So I think I meet about, I don't know, 40 to 50 different people a day.
1:16.7	I'm in a studio with my colleagues.
1:20.5	Yeah, it is.
1:21.2	And I have three children coming from different, you know, kindergartens of schools.
1:24.8	So I don't know.
1:25.9	The statistic is quite staggering,
1:28.6	but I have yet to encounter it, as far as I know, of course. So. Yeah, I think that there's some kind
1:34.9	of superhuman antibody thing going on with you there, because that is amazing. You never really did
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