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Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Netanyahu wants a pardon, hostages reunite and a farewell to Tom Stoppard—With Yair Ettinger

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Unholy Media

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

4.7770 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Watch us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/RnHcr0Q6PUQ Benjamin Netanyahu edges closer to Donald Trump’s extraordinary call for a presidential pardon, filing an official request with President Herzog and setting off another political storm. All this as Israel tears itself apart once again over the draft bill. Will the ultra-Orthodox secure a formal exemption from service, and what does that mean for the rest of the country? Yonit and Jonathan unpack the battle lines with Yair Ettinger of Kan News, one of the clearest voices on the Haredi world and its political power. Plus: a farewell to a giant of the stage, and a Chutzpah Award that breaks new records.

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0:00.0

Netanyahu's pardon request causes uproar, so does the progress made with the draft bill.

0:05.6

Eli Sharabi and Alon O'Hell, who are held as captives now meet as freemen,

0:09.8

and we say goodbye to a theater giant.

0:12.2

It's unholy. I'm Unlevy.

0:13.9

And I'm Jonathan Friedland.

0:16.2

In London.

0:32.0

Unholy, two Jews on the news.

0:35.7

I think you may have nodded to the thing that has been on our minds more even than the regular news this week with the death

0:40.6

of Tom Stoppard, great British playwright. And as you have noted before...

0:44.7

I would talk only about that this week, but Jonathan wants to talk about the news.

0:48.8

No, I mean, we could both nerd out, couldn't we, on that? Because...

0:53.0

And we will, in fact, later in the show. We absolutely will,

0:56.6

so we'll talk about it then. But I mean, shared interest in the theatre, London being a real

1:01.3

theatre destination for lots of Israelis come to London to see the theatre. Don't point at me. I am

1:07.0

the lots of Israelis who come to London to see you. No, but you're not the only one. It's a thing, isn't it?

1:11.1

People do do it. You know, we mentioned Paddington the musical last week, which I got an early preview citing of. And I said, I seem to remember... Don't show off. Well, anyway, it just got a whole lot of rave reviews, which is interesting because I wasn't so sure it would, but it did. And so that's going to become a destination show.

1:28.7

How is two Jews on the news not a play yet?

1:30.8

Why are we not writing? views, which is interesting because I wasn't so sure it would, but he did. And so that's going to

1:27.6

become a destination show. How is two Jews on the news not a play yet? Why are we not writing a play?

1:32.6

Two Jews taking their cues, you know, off, off, off Broadway. Jonathan Friedland enters stage left,

1:38.7

looking perplexed. Come on, we can do this. I think we've done it already. We've got so many

1:43.7

scripts.

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