Israel: Great Vaccinations, Horrible Elections

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🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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We’re joined today by Israeli journalist Ruthie Blum to discuss the bizarre phenomenon of Israel likely heading toward a fifth election in two years despite the multiple triumphs in the past year attributable to the leadership of embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Why hasn’t Israel’s success in national vaccination carried Netanyahu to new heights? And we continue to discuss vaccine... Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Wednesday March 31st 2021.
0:14.1	I am John Baudhord.
0:15.1	It's the editor of commentary magazine.
0:17.5	Noa Rothman is out today and tomorrow with me as always executive editor, a Greenwald
0:21.6	hi-a.
0:22.6	Hajan.
0:23.6	Senior writer Christine Rosen, hi Christine.
0:25.8	Hajan.
0:26.8	And joining us from Tel Aviv columnist for the Jerusalem post columnist for the Jewish
0:31.2	New Service editor at the Jewish New Service commentator on every Israeli television program
0:38.0	you can possibly imagine.
0:40.0	And my sister, Ruthie Bloom, hi Ruthie.
0:42.9	Hi John.
0:43.9	Okay, so before we get to Ruthie's deep analysis of the of the ongoing and never ending Israeli
0:51.8	political electoral crisis, I just want to report to everybody that we have a new piece
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