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Hello, today we're in Israel on the hunt for the finest falafel while hearing what Arab and Jewish Israelis think of the controversial new law which characterizes the country as

principally a Jewish state.

In Galithia, we're also searching for some local grub, searching and searching. And there's a case of mistaken identity

for our correspondent in Moscow who's been turned down for a job making t-shirts in

New Zealand but being offered another at a dental surgery in Florida.

And we've got tales of brutes and brawls from Australia,

where politics can be a nasty business, not like Britain of course. But first to South Africa and more political

intrigue. When the ruling Africa National Congress replaced its leader Jacob Zuma in February, it was supposed to mark something of a fresh start,

a chance for the troubled party to regroup ahead of a general election next year and to tackle corruption.

We should put all the negativity that has dogged our country behind us,

announced the new man in charge, Cyril Ramaposa,

a new dawn is upon us.

But as Andrew Harding has noticed, not everyone appears to be

sticking to the new script. In a cavernous grey room in a grey office block, expensive lawyers in grey suits are sifting with no apparent

sense of urgency through a pile of bank statements.

Yes, it does sound monumentally dull.

But this is South Africa, a raucous adolescent democracy, and anything that involves politics

here is never dull.

Like diligent archaeologists, those gray-suited lawyers and their witnesses are combing through the wreckage of Jacob Zuma's presidency.

Zuma was kicked out of office this February and plenty of South Africans breathed a sigh of relief.

Almost immediately, the 76-year-old found himself facing trial for alleged corruption,

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