Hey Israel Story listeners, it's Mishie. As I hope you know we just released our

season 6 opener, a day at the Y. If you haven't yet heard it, check it out. In that

episode, all recorded in one place during one day, we tried to paint a portrait of

a diverse community bouncing back after both COVID and a mini-war. We heard from

49 people from 11 different countries, who together represent something of the

mundane magic of the Y, of Jerusalem, and really of Israel. Now we had a team of

nine producers at the Y, recording all day long. So as you can imagine, we

actually spoke to an interviewed hundreds of people whose stories for all

kinds of reasons you didn't get to hear. Some took us away from the Y, some

needed a lot more airtime in order to do them justice, and some we felt. Just

didn't fit the episode as it was shaping up.

This happens all the time at Israel Story. What you end up hearing on the

feed is only a fraction of what we record and produce. There's a whole world

that goes on behind the scenes of every single episode. People we don't end up

including stories we don't end up telling, interesting production challenges,

thorny ethical dilemmas, so there's a lot that we don't get to share and you

don't get to hear. And that often makes us sad since we think you'd enjoy that

content. It would not only give you a better sense of what we do, but also

enhance our experience of this storytelling journey we've all been on

together for the last six years. So that's why it was so excited to announce that

as of today, we're offering a way for you to hear stuff we usually don't release.

For only $4.99 a month, you'll receive access to monthly bonus content. It's

...