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Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Special Update: Israel’s Moment of Truth

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Unholy Media

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

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Israel's judicial overhaul has cleared its first parliamentary hurdle: one key measure is now the law of the land. Where does that leave the protesters who have filled the streets, the government of Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel's relationship with a watching world? Yonit and Jonathan unpack an incendiary 24 hours. Follow on Instagram and Facebook: Unholy Podcast.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

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0:14.3

This is a watershed moment for Israel, the first part of the judicial overhaul legislation,

0:27.0

becoming a law, protests in the street, talk of the Supreme Court striking down the legislation.

0:33.1

A lot is going on.

0:34.3

There are ramifications.

0:35.5

Where this is all heading?

0:36.9

A lot of questions I think

0:37.9

will pretend to answer at least some of them, Jonathan. It's unholy. I'm Yoni Levy of Channel 12

0:42.7

in Tel Aviv. And I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian in London. Yet we're doing an emergency

0:48.3

episode, an update midweek because of everything that's been happening. We thought we couldn't

0:53.7

wait till Friday.

0:56.0

I mean, we'd said in our last podcast, Yonit, that we thought that the crunch moment had come,

1:02.3

that we were at the moment of truth. And sure enough, on Monday, the big vote that we had been

1:09.0

talking about, YOME on and off for the six months,

1:11.8

really, finally came. I just thought it would be really helpful if we, before we get to even

1:17.3

what's going on in the last just hours, as you and I speak, at, you know, Tuesday, early

1:22.2

evening, Israel time, just to walk through what's going on and what has happened, because it's been a lot.

1:29.1

So, I mean, just talk us through it.

1:31.6

You know, the scene begins Monday morning where there's this expectation that finally,

1:35.6

the judicial reform that has been talked about and talked about and protested about for months and months

1:40.1

is before the Knesset.

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