Two days ago, it looked like war will resume.

Now the U.S. and Iran seem to be nearing a truce.

What to watch in the UK local elections and our MENCH Award can be set to music.

It's Unholy. I'm Inuit Levy in Tel Aviv.

And I'm Jonathan Friedland in London. Unholy, two Jews on the news.

We're going to talk about all of that stuff, also some mergers and acquisitions, if you like, going on in Israeli politics.

Tis the season.

Interesting, exactly the sort of moves and shape,

you know, pieces moving on that chessboard.

But I think I was caught by the fact that May is not just the fifth month of the year,

but drum roll, you're neat.

It's a Jewish American Heritage Month, which led me to ask you,

leads me to ask you, rather, who your favorite Jewish American is.

I mean, crowded field, isn't it, really?

I mean, it's when you think about diaspora Jews and, I mean, be in the modern age, I suspect most people's top 10, top 100, would be Americans,

just the makers of global Jewish culture in the 20th century, certainly.

Frank Ford, Franklin Ford, much of my journalist, right, whole piece in the Atlantic,

which got a lot of attention, I think, in 2024, about the end of the golden age of Jewish America.

But I'm saying all that as preamble to the fact that I think mine might be a bit retro.

But I don't know how you don't choose Philip Roth, really, as number one.

Because, and this is a writer's bias here, but he's the chronicler of Jewish America, isn't he? And therefore,

if your favourite one is going to be the person who sort of distilled it and encapsulated it and in so many wonderful books that still give brilliant insight and pleasure, you know,

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