Hi, I'm Unite Levy of Channel 12 in Tel Aviv.

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

And we are unholy, two Jews on the News from Keshet podcasts.

Hi, Jonathan.

Hello. Is it a chag samer?

Do we do that?

I think we do. I mean, I was going to open up by talking about Lagba Omer bonfires

and the whole thing about how we don't do bonfires anymore because it's not good for the environment.

So it's actually Lagba-Omer non-bonfires.

But forget all that because the Israeli coalition is sort of going up in flames. So maybe that

should be the thing to talk about. It's very nice of them, by the way, to be doing this, having this

political drama half an hour before we were recording our podcast, and not half an hour after.

So I just say that's very considerate. But normally we get news breaking straight after we hang up our microphone.

So this is helpful.

This thing about Lugba Ome, by the way, no bonfire.

I'm afraid that memo has not reached for the Othodox neighbors.

Hackney in North London still goes with the classic Lugba Omeir, which is a festival.

Well, at least you get toasted marshmallows, my friend, so that's nice.

So instead of fires, besides political fires, what instead of fires, what's taken their place in the Israeli non-Hackney-Lugba Omeat Ome?

So what they do is actually they turned it into a completely on its end. It's a water festival now. So kids go and they have like water balloons and they play with water because obviously at this point in Israel it's already very, very hot. So you can do that. And it's instead of the fact that, you know, that's not good for the environment. So they kind of stopped doing that over the, over recently.

There's still a little bit of bonfires, but not that many.

You know, here, obviously, Hackney, it's a scorched Earth festival, so that continues.

...