JL;DR SUMMARY In this edition, Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron, and Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida discuss Benny Gantz's failure to form a government, questioning if it was a bullet dodged, and speculate about political motives behind Israel's recent conflict with Islamic Jihad in Gaza. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.