JL;DR SUMMARY In this episode, Don Futterman, Noah Efron, and Dina Kraft discuss the Labor Party's merger strategy, Israel's Foreign Ministry focusing on promoting Israeli companies over policies, and the retooling of a protest song by folk singer Chava Alberstein as an ad for cable and internet service. 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'.