Miriam Herschlag and Noah Efron discuss (1) Prime Minister Netayahu’s trip to DC to break bread with President Donald Trump, to dot the I’s an cross the T’s on an expected-at-any-moment temporary cease-fire and hostage release deal with Hamas, and (2) Should Israeli doctors do triage on hostages, helping politicians choose who should come home first and who last in the upcoming cease-fire and hostage return deal with Hamas?

Plus, a Trump hotel in Tel Aviv, talking teddy bears of people slain on October 7, bees, and a tribute to a remarkable man, Berhanu Yoseph, may his memory be for a blessing.

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Linda, Don and Noah discuss (1) U.S. President Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts demanding the immediate cancellation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trial—calling Netanyahu a ‘great hero’ who, along with Trump, ‘saved Israel’—and how figures across Israel’s political spectrum have more or less fallen in line; and (2) what to make of a Haaretz “expose” about the IDF and the new humanitarian aid centers in Gaza.

Plus, a simulated daughter offering real comfort, and the varied aftermaths of the “Twelve Day War.”

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In this wartime-fever-dream-inflected special episode Miriam Herschlag and Noah Efron talk about (1) the only thing any of us have talked about for the past weeks, what US President Donald Trump called “The Twelve-Day War,” and (2) several things we have NOT talked about for the past weeks, but maybe ought to have, including what’s going on in Gaza, a joint-Palestinian-Israel efforts to get humanitarian aid to Gaza, and an Israeli Rabbi and a Melburnian Bar Mitzvah boy working together to create unity.

All this and music and cats on rooftops, plus as moving a wedding as we’ve ever seen.

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