Episode # 111: Israel's elections and the concerns they raise for Diaspora Jews
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I'm joined this week by our man in Israel, Charles Byblezer, for a very insightful discussion about the goings-on in Israel. A week before the U.S. midterms, Israel held its fifth election is less than four years--and the results are causing hand-wringing and hair-pulling among Jewish leaders here in the U.S. and elsewhere in the Diaspora. The government Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu is most likely to form will lean to the far right politically and, just as important, religiously. There even may an attempt to turn Israel into a theocracy, if the No. 2 party in the expected coalition government gets its way.  Support the show
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