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Thanks for joining me. Welcome to a new episode of Ask Khabiv Anything. Our topic today is the upcoming Israeli elections. I know there's a lot on our plate, but Israel will have momentous elections. If everything stays the same, that will be momentous. If everything changes, that will be very dramatic as well. The elections have to be held by law by October. And so we're going to do a few episodes, probably very a great many episodes on this subject. There's so many fundamental issues about Israel's future, about Israel's society that are right now on the agenda of this election that we're going to have a lot of conversations about it. We wanted to start today with a friend of mine, Dr. Inat Wilf, a leading thinker on Israel, on Zionism, on foreign policy, on education policy. Dr. Wilf is the author of several books that explore key issues in Israeli society, and not just the famous ones. How Israeli society organizes its education system, Haredi education and Arab education, and secular education and religious education. These are fundamental questions about our future, about the next generation, about the character of our society. Nat was a member of the Israeli Parliament. She served as chair of the Education Committee, the Foreign affairs and Defense Committee, and she is now running in this election at the head of a brand new party, a brand new party called the Oz Party. Now, I'm going to get emails. Why didn't you interview from my party? Why didn't you interview this person or that person? Folks, it's the beginning of a large conversation and Ennat is an extraordinary analyst as well as someone who is now asking Israelis for their votes. So this is a beginning. And also I'm really curious, I really want to ask her what this election is about, how it's going to play out, all of those things. But first, I want to tell you that this episode is sponsored anonymously in memory of Jack Rose and his son Paul Lawrence Rose, and is dedicated to the themes of Jewish survival, renewal and education that permeate their lives and their work. Jack Rose's parents and siblings were guests in Nazi death camps. After serving with the Allies, he rebuilt his life in the uk, becoming principal of Blackburn College of Technology and Design, a robotics pioneer, and publishing many books honored by the Queen and UNESCO. Jack eventually reconnected to Israel, traveling often to the Jewish homeland. His son Paul transformed that legacy into scholarship as a leading historian of German culture and antisemitism. Before his 2014 death, Paul was editing a definitive manuscript tracing the evolution of antisemitism. Both men were known for their warmth, generosity and marvelous humor in the spirit of renewal through education. The sponsors of this episode would also like to invite you to learn about Gan Condesa. I hope I'm pronouncing that right. In Mexico City, after decades of Jewish life migrating to the gated suburbs, Gan Condesa is reclaiming a presence in the city's walkable cultural heart. Through its thriving Montessori and expanding community center, it is reconnecting unaffiliated families to their Jewish heritage. Visit ganmexico.com g a n mexico.com to donate or invest in this permanent Jewish home in North America's largest city. Thank you so much for that absolutely marvelous and poignant sponsorship and dedication. I also would like to invite everybody to join our Patreon. For one thing, it helps us keep the lights on and keep doing what we're doing. But for another, it's where we get a lot of the topics and issues and questions that this podcast tackles. And including now people asking to focus a little bit on elections and what it all means and what this year will mean for Israel's future. If you want to ask those questions, guide the topics we choose to talk about. Join us. You also get to be part of the monthly live streams where I answer your questions live. The link is in the show Notes. The link is www.patreon.com Ask Anything. Anat, how are you?
