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Politics16:03 · Jun 25

Satirical roundup targets Israeli politics, protests, and a Chabad event

By כיכר השבת
Translated & summarized from Kikar HaShabbat by baba
Satirical roundup targets Israeli politics, protests, and a Chabad event
Editorial illustration generated by baba News — not a photograph of the event.
The story · English

This item is a satirical news roundup, hosted by Yossi Avdo and presented as the week’s “not really important news,” with writing by Yosef Chaim Mimon and editing by Yedidya Cohen. It strings together several political and public-order jokes about current Israeli figures and controversies, rather than reporting a single breaking event.

The segment mentions Tali Gottlieb and the debate over her immunity, with Hanoch Milbitsky supposedly wanting to know who backed it. It also quotes Yair Golan describing his faction as “the most impressive,” and refers to yeshiva students blocking a road as part of a protest over military conscription and what they call an insult to the Torah. The clip attached to that protest is identified as “Am Yisrael Chai,” and the joke asks where politicians will stand during the demonstration.

Another bit says that, at Goldknopf’s request, police are examining a call for an “intifada” against ultra-Orthodox Jews. The roundup then mocks how a minister is supposedly going to “fight with sticks and stones,” how road blockers should move to an office instead of the street, and how some ultra-Orthodox say they will no longer support religious parties. It adds a jab at the Attorney General’s adviser, asking how United Torah Judaism will fight back.

The segment also references Dudi Amsalem, saying he sends secular Israelis to the hospital, and says Isaac Amit has a political chip for every judge, with someone proposing a dog whistle solution. It closes by noting that Bibi, Bennett, Mansour, and Tibi are all at a Chabad farbrengen, and that the communications minister is proposing a whistle for dogs.

Read the original at Kikar HaShabbat
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