Lebanon ceasefire, Senate Showdown, Orban out

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

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News, Yonit Levi, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Jews, Religion & Spirituality, Israel, Jewish, Judaism, Israel Podcast, Middle East, Jonathan Freedland, Documentary

4.7 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Watch us on Youtube: https://youtu.be/1GIuMFYYX1E Get more Unholy content: https://unholy-podcast.lovable.app/ As Israel marks one week out of 40 days of missiles from Iran, Yonit and Jonathan take apart the week's impossible contradictions: Netanyahu delivering a triumphalist Yom HaShoah speech while 400 kilograms of enriched uranium remain intact in Iran; a fragile Lebanon ceasefire that almost no one trusts; 40 Democratic senators voting against arms transfers; and Italy's far-right prime minister — until now Israel's last ally in Europe — quietly moving toward the exit. They also clock a historic election in Hungary, what Orban's fall means for the Israeli opposition, and whether Gadi Eisenkot is the figure who finally changes the picture.

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0:00.0	A sombre week of reflection and morning in Israel, just as the possibility hoves into view of
0:11.7	some kind of breakthrough between Israel and Lebanon in their war over Hezbollah.
0:18.4	It's Unholy.
0:19.2	I'm Jonathan Friedland in London.
0:21.3	And I'm Yonit Lavi in Tel Aviv.
0:24.8	Unholy, Tuj is on the news, Jonathan, as you say, it is this week that we tend to call
0:29.9	the holiest week on the Israeli secular calendar, the week between Holocaust Memorial Day
0:37.3	and the Memorial Day for fallen soldiers,
0:39.3	which is next Tuesday. A famous saying in this country is that they are bundled together and
0:44.5	only a week between them, as the Holocaust Memorial Day illustrates the price we pay for having
0:49.0	no state of our own. And Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers is the price we pay for having
0:53.8	our own state.
0:55.4	Now, in normal days, these are days of, you know, normal years.
0:58.8	These are days of contemplation and solemnness, culminating, of course, an Independence Day.
1:04.2	The emotional roller coaster could not be clearer for the Israeli psyche.
1:08.6	But in this year, it will also align with the end of the ceasefire
1:12.2	between Israel and the U.S. and Iran. So all of this coming together in a very kind of bizarre mix.
1:20.1	I think the word bizarre for the national mood would probably be accurate this week.
1:25.2	Yeah. I mean, it always is, and we will talk next week about how, you know, this,
1:30.4	the mood whipsaw, the whiplash of going from Memorial Day, straight to your
1:36.1	Montemort, Independence Day.
1:37.5	But they're all in a mix together, this crammed week, and I know from my own time, having
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