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. Hey guys, it's Mishi.

As you hopefully know, we're in the middle of our two episode long Telsaki project, in which we're telling the story of a single battle on

the Golan Heights during the 1973 Yom Kippu War.

We'll be back next week with part two of that story, which will also be the

penultimate episode of our season. But today as a little respite from the

intensity and drama of war, we want to replay a short piece of fiction

from our beloved and frequent contributor Edgar Kirit.

It originally aired back in 2016 as part of one of our most popular episodes,

Stop That Bus. Now when we first began our show, one of the most exciting things was getting to work with

Etka, whose wonderful stories we had all grown up reading and even studying.

I recently asked him what it's like to be canonized, to have every Israeli

...