Election Nation - with Amit Segal

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

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🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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If you look up the words “Israel” and “Elections” in any search engine at any given time during these last three years, chances are you either saw articles about upcoming ballots - or results of a recent round. That’s why this week’s results won’t come as a surprise. This week, Bennet and Lapid themselves hammered the final nail into the coalition’s coffin - sending Israelis to vote yet again. Yonit and Jonathan are joined by Channel 12 political analyst Amit Segal, to chat about the open questions - from Lapid, the caretaker government’s appointed caretaker, to his failed coalition’s legacy, and to the odds that an Arab party will fit into a governmental puzzle again. But, even though the Holy Land seems to hold first prize - topsy-turvy politics aren’t exclusively Israeli. French President Emmanuel Macron lost his absolute majority in Parliament by a wide margin this week, in a political blow that complicates his leadership - with far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s party coming in with a strong showing that exceeded expectations. Plus, coming to shelves soon - gefilte fish hot dogs?! Yonit and Jonathan try and stomach the news of this culinary crossover that probably won’t become a bestseller at ball games. -- 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	Hello, I'm Yonite Levi of Channel 12 in Tel Aviv.
0:15.2	And I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian in London.
0:19.2	And we are unholy two Jews on the news from Keshet podcast.
0:22.9	Jonathan, how are you?
0:24.9	I'm, well, it's a mood of celebration and festivity of a sort in this household because
0:30.7	the exams are over.
0:32.8	Hallelujah.
0:34.0	Hallelujah.
0:35.0	It's been, you know, it's been a process.
0:41.0	And it's over. You know, listeners have, listeners have enjoyed that as we've moved from Tudor, England, through to the plays of Shakespeare. And we closed with,
0:48.2	appropriately perhaps for this podcast, we closed with religious studies and Judaism and ethics
0:53.2	and meta-ethics, which I confess was not a
0:56.7	field I was familiar with before, but now you can test me if you like, Yonnie.
1:01.2	So this was on, I mean, this is amazing.
1:03.1	In Israel, these exams, these final exams go on for like the end of 11th grade and 12th grade.
1:09.2	So they go on for essentially two years. Here,
1:12.2	what your son did was just like day after day, right, the final exams, which is pretty insane.
1:17.5	No, exactly right. I mean, the end, you know, in my day, your need, it was even more compacted.
1:22.7	I mean, they really would be morning afternoon, morning afternoon. Now they were spread out a little bit, but yeah, over two and a half, three weeks.
1:31.0	And it would be, there would be a day off and then, you know, two in a week and then, you know,
1:34.8	et cetera.
1:35.4	So, but it's, but it's in the past tense.
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