Big Fires Everywhere - with Amos Harel

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

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

4.7 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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The week began with a daring hostage rescue operation that brought four Israeli captives home, but the relief did not last long. Hezbollah rocket fire from the north is growing ever more intense, while Israel’s war cabinet saw the long-awaited exit of Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot – and all while Benjamin Netanyahu and the Supreme Court remain on a collision course over the ultra-orthodox exemption from military service. Yonit and Jonathan break it all down with award-winning Haaretz military analyst Amos Harel. Plus: far right gains in Europe, street protests turn nasty in New York – and Hollywood stumbles over its founding Jewish fathers. -- Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unholypodcast/and X: https://x.com/2jewsonthenewsJoin our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1150578065793142See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Enough news this week to last a month.
0:03.4	Non-stop barrage is pound northern Israel.
0:06.4	A vote in the Knesset deepens Israel's rift, guns leaving the government,
0:11.3	and the most daring hostage rescue mission we have seen since the beginning of the war.
0:15.4	It's unholy.
0:16.0	I'm Nate Levy of Channel 12, usually in Tel Aviv.
0:18.3	And I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian in London.
0:34.3	It's unholy. Two Jews on the news.
0:35.7	Like you say, lots of news.
0:37.4	I mean, my day job requires me to be focusing
0:40.0	on what was meant to be the big story of this period, the summer general election. Let's just
0:45.9	first of all query the word summer, because I'm talking to you in a place that has not seen
0:50.2	sunlight for some time. I mean, the idea of a kind of summer diversion, I was meant to
0:57.5	be going to the cricket this evening. The forecast is for nonstop rain. But even the election
1:02.3	is not quite living up to billing. I mean, I think people saw this opening moment, didn't they,
1:06.0	of Rishi Sunak announcing the election as buckets of rain were dropped on top of him.
1:12.2	Did he have to do that in the rain or just happened while he was talking?
1:15.8	No, I mean, it's so strange because it had been raining.
1:18.7	And then there was this break, but everyone thought, you know, if you know this country,
1:22.1	it pauses for 40 seconds and then starts raining again, you know.
1:25.6	And his advisors were, you know,
1:27.8	apparently were torn on this issue. The optics are you normally announce it outside Downing Street,
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