Israel poised to expand its war in Gaza, aiming for a total reoccupation of the strip.

Are Israelis speaking about conditions in Gaza in a new way?

And the battle over the draft bill has not gone away.

Plus, we will have the first in a series of interviews from around the Jewish world.

It's Unholy. I'm Jonathan Friedland in London.

And I am Ruth Margulite in Tel Aviv.

We are two Jews on the news.

We absolutely are.

And the news, you slightly think it might, you know, give it a rest, given it's August.

Your listeners, sharp-eared listeners, will notice that Yon is away this week.

She is on a very well-earned vacation. And, you know, there was a time when

it was very, very common for journalists to take August off, because nothing really happened.

It kind of doesn't feel like that way now, Ruth. It really doesn't. I mean, the news just doesn't

stop. And I'm afraid it sort of, there's a sense that it sort of keeps getting worse,

just when we think that it can't get any worse. It really does. But yeah, we have a lot to

discuss, a lot going on. We really do. No, there's so much going on. I think, by the way,

the turning point for me, maybe it's because I was a fairly, well, I was

an absolutely new journalist then. August 2nd, 1990 is seared in my brain because that was the

invasion, Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. And I remember lots of newsrooms were kind of affronted.

They were like, how dare news happen in August? Don't people realize I'm in my holiday home in

Provence? You know, this is outrageous. This is a long time ago, different era. Actually, in August. Don't people realize I'm in my holiday home in Provence? You know, this is

outrageous. This is a long time ago, different era. Actually, in Israel, there's... So, ever since... Yeah, well, in Hebrew, you say, you know, there's a statement that, um, that wars happen in summer. Um, so that, you know, in Israel, that is definitely true. There's this sort of scorching heat and the kind of rising, you know, rising

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