The more extreme religious individuals have to be given some kinds of political preferences to keep them on board. Jerusalem tends to be a more religious city than televieve, but there're plenty of orthodox people and religious people in televieve. There's plenty of non observant people here in jerusalemthe tend to have different rules about how the sabbath is kept in terms of public services. And cultural norms also, of course, play a role. But i don't like that idea, as it is, a jew, i don’t like that idea as a religious person.
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.