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Unholy: Two Jews on the News

"Why is Israel So Expensive?" - with Guy Rolnik

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

🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

As the new Israeli coalition passes its budget, Yonit and Jonathan are joined by Guy Rolnik, Founder of TheMarker, Israel's leading business publication and Professor at University of Chicago Booth School of Business. We ask how Israel has become one of the most expensive places to buy a house (or go to a restaurant?), why does it continue to attract so many foreign investments, and why isn't the economy on top of the political agenda for Israelis?  Also - Yonit shares some interesting finds from her moving house experience, and Jonathan gives us a sneak peek at his upcoming book. -- Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unholypodcast/and X: https://x.com/2jewsonthenewsJoin our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1150578065793142 Subscribe to our blog: https://unholypodcast.substack.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Unite Levi of Channel 12 in Tel Aviv.

0:15.7

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

0:19.0

And we are unholy from Keshepp podcast, two Jews on the News.

0:22.9

I want to say two Jews on the move, Jonathan, because that is what I have been doing this week.

0:28.5

It's what you've been. I've certainly not been on the move. I've been rooted to the spot for reasons

0:32.4

that will become clear. Why are you on the move? So I have moved. I mean, it's more a present

0:36.9

progressive. Like I am moving. It mean, it's more a present progressive.

0:38.4

Like I am moving.

0:41.1

It's like a process that is taking forever.

0:42.6

And I mean, it's a nightmare.

0:45.6

There's no way to like circumvent this.

0:48.1

I've been trying to kind of convince myself, right?

0:55.1

Like saying, you know, as Neanderthals, just to connect to last week's conversation, as Neanderthals, we had to move from place to place and from cave to cave. And you just know that even then the cable guy took two

0:59.5

weeks to come and connect you to cable in your cave. But at least, you know, we're evolutionary

1:03.3

wired to move. So that's fine. As Jews were like, we're wandering. We know how to do this. We've been doing it for so long. So why is it so damn hard to do this? So I'm in an exhausted existence. That was my rant.

1:16.0

So you think after our 2,000 years at least, we would be better at house moving. But no. No. No. And then now you're in, I mean, I am in the stage of like out of 250 boxes, like 130 have been opened.

1:29.0

So like I don't know where anything is.

1:31.2

But 128 of those are books, Yonnie.

1:33.4

No, they're not.

1:34.1

I mean, thank you.

1:34.9

But I think all of my socks and my spoons are in those boxes that have not been.

1:40.3

And I'm like, and so I'm sitting here in my green official, like, jacket, fancy jacket,

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