Hello, I'm Yonite Levy of Channel 12 in Tel Aviv.

And I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian in London.

And we are unholy two Jews on the news from Keshe podcast. Hi, Jonathan.

Hello, you're neat. It's a festive season. My calendar tells me. It is not a festive mood,

though, is it? But it is, uh, it is prim, not the best of times to celebrate porrum. Hasn't

been for two years, but definitely not this year. Well, this is what's funny about it,

because for two years, there was a reason why I could tell you, look, Purim is not really happening,

although, as I've said before, it definitely carried on happening among my Harady neighbors

around here in N16, London. But this time, I thought, okay this will be the first prorim that's like a real

perim, because everyone will emerge from COVID, and it'll be back to something like normal. And, of

course, because of Ukraine, it's just not kind of the mood. I feel. I mean, I don't know. It would

be interesting if maybe I should ask this question of

some of my neighbours, but I'm not sure, you know, it's dampened their mood much. But it may,

you know, maybe because obviously there are, you know, big connections between the Haredi world

in the Ukraine. So maybe. I don't know. What about in Israel, where obviously,

PURIM is a much bigger deal in every way.

PORM is like a huge deal here. Obviously, like the office PORM parties are like the equivalent

of the Christmas party where you are. And, and, you know, obviously for two years, not really

a big deal. But this year, as always, Purim is the Senate.

I talked about this last year, extended into these eight days of costumes, right?

You have kids, you have the official costume day, and then you have all kinds of extensions

to that, like the Prince's Day and the Hat Day and the Animal Day and the Drive

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