Double Feature - with Ruth Margalit & Yonatan Green

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

🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Two guests, two perspectives - Yonit and Jonathan talk to two Israelis with sharply conflicting views of the current state of their country. Legal activist Yonatan Green is a staunch advocate of the judicial overhaul - while New Yorker writer Ruth Margalit has profiled the hard right nationalist Itamar Ben-Gvir, who she calls the Minister of Chaos. Plus - the government that keeps supplying us with undisputed chutzpahs. -- Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unholypodcast/and X: https://x.com/2jewsonthenewsJoin our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1150578065793142 Subscribe to our blog: https://unholypodcast.substack.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by Cyberattacks Can Be Prevented.
0:05.6	Checkpoint, you deserve the best security.
0:09.3	Two very different perspectives on Israel's government and what it's doing, one from a defender of the judicial overhaul,
0:17.9	and then a sharp-eyed observer of one of the big names in the Netanyahu team.
0:25.2	It's Unholy. I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian in London.
0:29.1	And I'm Unlevy of Channel 12 in television.
0:44.7	I'm Unholy, Two Jews on the News from Kesheed podcast, Jonathan. We actually have a jam-packed show today.
0:47.7	We're doing something for the first time, which is two interviewees.
0:51.2	Two guests on our show.
0:52.6	Two guests.
0:52.7	It's like two Jews, two guests.
0:54.8	We've got it all.
1:12.0	It's a double feature. And actually, when you think about it, it's, we're two months, almost two months into the Netanyahu government. So we're talking about the two main issues, which are the judicial overhaul. And really these, let's say, far rights, specifically Itamar Benkville, as Minister of National Security.
1:12.6	So I think that that will be covered with both our interviewees.
1:16.2	I will just tell you that I'm sitting here among three small children.
1:20.3	Let's hope that they don't interfere and ask questions about the judicial overhaul because
1:23.8	Israel, yet again, is seeing a strike today.
1:27.4	I think I quoted this tweet to you
1:29.2	before that Israel has four seasons, which is elections, war, strike, and summer. Sometimes they all
1:37.1	happen at the same time. So today's strike because the municipalities are protesting the government's decision to slash their budget. There's that
1:46.6	going on too. It has nothing to do with the protests of the judicial, against the judicial
1:50.6	overhaul. So today we got a bonus strike. And thus, children are at home everywhere across
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