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Unholy: Two Jews on the News
Unholy Media
4.7 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You would not bet the house on this relationship. |
| 0:02.7 | There is instability built into it. |
| 0:05.4 | And in a way, it's a compensation for that. |
| 0:08.0 | The country wouldn't exist without you. |
| 0:09.8 | And I'm going to give you the highest honor. |
| 0:11.9 | Should I name the country after you? |
| 0:14.1 | Maybe it shouldn't be called Israel. |
| 0:15.5 | It should be called Trumpistan. |
| 0:17.4 | No, paused for a moment. |
| 0:29.1 | Thank you. Now I paused for a moment. It's Unholy. I'm Unholy. I'm Unilevi in Tel Aviv. |
| 0:31.9 | And I'm Jonathan Friedland in London. |
| 0:34.1 | And it is January 1st, 2026. I don't think we've ever had an episode on January 1st. |
| 0:40.1 | So have a good meeting for six, Jonathan, first of all. Yes, I wish you exactly the same. First of all, |
| 0:45.1 | you've interestingly preempted my little solution to this issue, which is I do say to people, |
| 0:50.9 | happy 2026, because I don't feel I can say happy new year because I already do that |
| 0:56.4 | in you know September October Russia Shanatime and so my own little pride you know we talked |
| 1:01.3 | last week about the Christmas issue and how my you know late mother and her family got around it |
| 1:07.4 | with Krutzmach instead of saying Christmas. My private one, because I don't |
| 1:13.1 | think I even really talk about this much, but my private one for New Year is to say exactly this |
| 1:16.8 | happy 2026, rather than Happy New Year, which is reserved for sort of the Jewish New Year, Shannatova, etc. |
| 1:23.8 | But I'm interested in what you and your fellow Israelis do around this time of year. |
| 1:29.4 | People have been asking me a couple of them, is it a total non-event? |
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