What's the Difference Between the American Right and the Israeli Right?

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One of the great things about israel is that privacy is really different. So they will, they'll pick on you for what you ordered at the restaurant or at the grocery. They'll pry into your private life and editorialize about it afterward. These things would never ever happen in america. And it makes life a lot easier. I'm sure there's cause to it that are not not good, but it's very, very different, very, veryDifferent.

In October 1973, an unhappy Leonard Cohen was listening to the radio on his Greek island home when he heard that Israel was at war. He headed to Tel Aviv, exchanging a personal and creative crisis for a national one. Absent a plan and even a guitar, Cohen wound up serenading Israeli soldiers at the front. Journalist Matti Friedman talks about his book Who by Fire with EconTalk host Russ Roberts and explains how a songwriter and a nation were transformed in the crucible of war.