Deal Or No Deal - with Prof. Jacob Hanna

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

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Yonit and Jonathan are back from the summer break - and there is A LOT to talk about. Word of a possible climbdown by Benjamin Netanyahu on the judicial overhaul, an attempt to force out the head of Israel’s Holocaust museum - and a massive scientific breakthrough from Israel's Weizmann Institute: senior researcher Prof Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna tells us how it happened and what it could mean for the human future. Plus: jaw dropping winners of our chutzpah and mensch awards and - of course - You’re So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzva. -- 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	This podcast is brought to you by cyber attacks can be prevented. Checkpoint, you deserve the best security.
0:09.5	We are back from summer vacation and surprise, surprise. There's a lot of news going on. A compromise suggested in the
0:16.2	judicial overhaul the Netanyahu government picking a fight with the chairman of Yad Vashem and a scientific
0:21.6	breakthrough from Israel's Weitzman Institute.
0:23.9	We will hear from the lead researcher.
0:25.9	It's unholy.
0:26.7	I'm Init Levy of Channel 12 in Tel Aviv.
0:29.2	And I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian in London. It's Unholy, two Jews on the news from Keshepp podcasts.
0:46.4	As you say, we are back.
0:48.1	And, you know, when we signed off to have a little summer break, we both made a kind of
0:52.1	bet with ourselves, each other, and kind of the listener saying,
0:56.0	we thought the chances are we would be back.
0:57.9	There would be some huge news development.
1:00.1	And each day it would pass where I would just take a little guilty peek at the phone and think
1:05.2	has something happened.
1:06.6	In the end, I think it was Bradley Cooper getting into a row about wearing a prosthesis to play
1:12.6	Leonard Bernstein that may, you know, that was the closest we got to thinking, wow, this is a big...
1:17.6	Maybe we should have an urgent update pod, maybe.
1:19.6	Can you imagine the emergency Jewish nose episode, Jewface, it was that route.
1:26.6	That would have been home tour for us normally,
1:29.2	but we thought that didn't require us to smash the glass in case of emergency and break in.
1:35.2	And otherwise, it was sort of relatively, you know, relatively calm. But in the last few days,
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