Hello, I'm Unite Levi 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. Jonathan, I politely, usually

politely ask you how you're doing. I must say that this week I'm more urgently concerned

about the health and the well-being of Her Majesty. Yes, you're not wrong, actually, to be concerned.

People here are a little bit concerned. She's 96 years old.

And this week, she was a no-show for the one event in the year, which she never, ever, ever

misses.

And that is the state opening of Parliament, a new session of Parliament.

It's a big ceremony, parliamentary pageantry, where normally, you know, arrives in the state coach, which looks like

something out of a fairy tale and wears the big robes and the crown. And she was not there for that.

She let her son, the Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, deputize instead. And, you know, people know

how seriously she takes her role as head of state. And, you know, people know how seriously she takes her role as head of state.

And so for her to miss this one formal thing, I mean, it's one thing to miss the various,

you know, going to Ascot and watching horses race or whatever. This is different. And, you know,

the statement that came from the palace is that she has episodic mobility issues.

And so, yeah, some talk of saying, okay, she's a very proud woman.

If it involved, you know, being there via a wheelchair, maybe she didn't want to do that.

There's talk that, you know, others are saying, maybe this is how it's going to be.

Powers almost of the regency, like when you have to have a sort of caretaker monarch, were passed to her son.

And look, she's 96.

So people are inevitably thinking like this.

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