Will the israeli military plus conscription, still overtime, produce that sense of social solidarity? Won't it become a kind of strasian facade and at some point fade away, or be viewed cynically, or not serve inter nominal, socially unifying function? Ah, i don't know what'll happen. What will happen is really just social life. But right that's not the case. I very central. It's going to be an incredible thing to see how this changes warfare in general. Is there in their units andu it creates a different kind of mentality here.
Can Israeli society survive the loss of universal military service? Will the deregulation of Israel's kosher supervision spell the end of its Jewish character? And, speaking of Israel, what is it that makes its television dramas so good? Tyler Cowen discusses these and other subjects with EconTalk host Russ Roberts, new immigrant to Israel and unabashed fan of the Prisoners of War miniseries and Homer's Odyssey.