Bibi blues: Israel’s fraying consensus
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The Economist
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🗓️ 24 May 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Our editor-in-chief and Jerusalem correspondent pay a visit to Israel’s halls of power, finding that long-whispered dissent is spilling into the open. An Italian subsidy for green home improvements was ripe for abuse by design; the bill has now come due and it is enormous (14:28). And how “Bridgerton”, a sort-of period drama, has made string quartets fashionable again (21:00).
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| 1:15.3 | Subsidies that partially cover the costs of energy-efficient home renovations are one of those everyone wins situations if those subsidies get the incentives right Italy has not and it's struggling to walk |
| 1:20.4 | back the super bonus that's crippling its budgets. |
| 1:25.0 | And the hit series Bridgeton positions itself as a modern period drama, |
| 1:30.0 | a blend of old and new sensibilities. |
| 1:32.0 | And thanks to some unexpected arrangements, a blend of old and new sensibilities. |
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| 1:35.5 | it's made string quartets more fashionable |
| 1:38.0 | than they have been in centuries. First up though, though. It has been, from any perspective, a terrible couple of weeks for the war in Gaza. |
| 1:59.0 | Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians sheltering in Raffa and southern Gaza have had to uproot again. |
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