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Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Can’t Buy Me Life in Tel Aviv

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Unholy Media

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

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

No one living in Tel Aviv was surprised it was crowned the most expensive city in the world; Yonit and Jonathan return to the topic of the high cost of living in Israel compared to the rest of the Western world. Anti-Vaxxers' campaign evoking insulting comparisons to the Holocaust even in Israel, A new BDS initiative in Canada aimed at kosher food. And we don't let you down -- the mensch award this week just has to be connected to the Beatles.    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.

0:14.6

And I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian in London.

0:18.0

And we are unholy, two Jews on the news from Keshet podcast. Maybe I should say,

0:22.1

Jonathan, I am Yoni Levy from the newly crowned most expensive city in the world. I know. I knew

0:28.1

you were going to, you kind of brag about that because what do you think it makes me feel?

0:31.4

I come from, I'm sitting here in London in the 17th. Didn't make the cut. Didn't make the cut of the top 10 is all I'm saying. It didn't make the cut. And it's so funny because, you know, the Guardian reported the story saying, oh, it's this unwanted title to be the most expensive city. And that's obviously definitely true. But you kind of don't want to be the 17th most expensive either because it's like living in a sort of, you know, downward neighborhood.

0:58.9

You read the, like, the reporting in Israel. It's like, we kick Paris off the fur at the top of the you know, and you're like, are we actually bragging a little bit about this? It's like we wanted

1:03.0

to be first place in something. So yay for us. It's like Lily Tomlin had this line. She said,

1:09.6

you know, when I was growing up, I wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific. So we wanted to be first place. We just should have been more specific about it. So the one you, the one everyone wants is the most livable city, which I think is always kind of Vancouver. And you don't want to be the most expensive city because it's hard to live in a really expensive city. Tell me about it. And, well, tell you about it.

1:28.7

We have told listeners about it.

1:30.3

This is what I wanted to say, you know, we're talking about bragging and a humble brag.

1:35.1

I have to do a little bit of being up of our own podcast because a couple of weeks ago, I think,

1:40.8

it was two or three weeks ago.

1:42.8

Our guest was Guy Rolnik, who talked about and

1:45.9

answered the question, why is living in Israel? And I think we'd said specifically Tel Aviv so

1:51.6

expensive. We tackled that, Unholy listeners. You were ahead of the economist because you were

1:57.3

listening to Unholy. So you knew this. And there is a trend here. I know this is not very British to big oneself up in this fashion, but it's got to be said.

2:06.4

You, Your Need, I think were the very first pundit who I heard saying, look, Naftali Bennett could be Prime Minister.

2:13.3

Months even before, I think it was even a glimmer of possibility, you were saying on this podcast, we talked about how Tel Aviv is the most expensive place on this podcast.

2:22.8

We talked about Eric Zamor, who has made it official, and this week said he is running for the presidency of France.

2:29.8

Okay, maybe you didn't have to have a crystal ball for that one, but you got it here first.

2:33.8

And I think our podcast, correct me if I'm wrong, I think our podcast ended last week

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