The israeli media landscape is very different from the american media landscape, though they overlap. It's fun to walk around on a afternoon or morning in jerusalem and see four or five different newspapers out for sale,. Even if i can't read all of them, they come with a flavor. They have often an ideology, a certain perspective. But how podcasting fits into that? I don't know. To some hebrew language podcast a, my hearer is not good enough to listen to the other ones, i should maybe be trying.
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.