Israel on edge preparing for a possible and imminent Iranian strike.

The IDF pulls most of its troops out of Gaza, leaving everybody wondering what's next.

Hostage deal still stuck.

And we talked to two master storytellers on how the war affected their stories and their friendship.

It's unholy.

I'm Unite-Levy of Channel 12 in Tel Aviv.

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

It's unholy to Jews on the news. Well, we have got a lot ahead of us with this huge conversation we're going to have with Ira Glass and Edgar Kerat, which is a really something we've wanted to do for a long time. We've spoken to them separately on the podcast. We're going to bring them together, their friendship, how it's been affected,

exactly as you say. But front and centre in our minds is obviously these warnings of something

imminent coming from Iran. I know we're going to get into all of that. But you're going to

indulge me because you have told me before we got ourselves in front of these microphones about a really, well,

sort of remarkable kind of encounter in your life, which I'm completely fascinated by. So I think

you should tell us about that. Yeah. So before the Iranian scare, I'm going to go into take you to

a time machine 30 years back, sort of escapism into the past.

For the first time in my life this Friday, I went to a reunion.

Now, you know me.

I'm not one for reunions generally.

I think the past is in the past for a reason.

And anyone looking for proof of that look no further than Gilmore Girls revisited.

But in this case, it was a really formative experience of my teenage years. And I think

it's still relevant to something to everything that's been going on in this country. So 30 years

ago, I was part of a delegation called Young Ambassadors. It was an annual project by the

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