From legislation to Legos: Israel is facing some major changes

03/31/23 • 26 min

This week, Yaakov and Tamar discuss the suspension of judicial reforms and whether or not Israel will see the same tensions after the Knesset ajourns from its recess at the end of April. Then they are joined by new JPost editor-in-chief Avi Mayer and hear a bit about his career before joining the Post, his deal with Legos, and more.

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Diplomatic disaster and opioid preoccupation

This week, Yaakov and Tamar discuss the impact of recent policies set forth by the Israeli government that are giving Israel a bad rap on the international playing field, leaving its diplomatic state hanging in the balance.
Then they speak with Prof. Nadav Davidovitch, an epidemiologist and chair of the Department of Health Systems Management at Ben-Gurion University, to hear about his newly-released study on the spike in pain-relief opioid use in Israel. He answers the question: Is Israel on the verge of an opioid epidemic?

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The Jerusalem Post podcast is back, with new Editor-in-Chief Avi Mayer co-hosting with Diplomatic Correspondent Lahav Harkov. This week, Avi and Lahav talk about how Operation Shield and Arrow was, in some ways, more of the same, but was unique in key ways. Plus, what is the true meaning of Noa Kirel's third place in the Eurovision? Guest Keren Hajioff of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies talks about what it was like to run the IDF's social media and be the spokesperson for former prime ministers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, and what she used to do at 19:48 every day.