"Just days before that, on October 6th, there was a run on the banks. What happened was this, Menachem Begin's government had taken away some of the regulation on the banks, and banks had taken up the sketchy practice of buying their own shares on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, running up their value. For four odd years, this gave the banks the cash they needed to expand their operations abroad, which they did recklessly. It also produced a record of constant, growth that let them plausibly promise bank customers, pretty much everyone, that the money they put into bank shares was guaranteed to produce revenue greater than inflation, which was running at more than 100% a year back then. With neighborhood bankers telling them that buying bank stock was the best way to save their savings, almost every Israeli became an investor, which drove up stock prices even more. It was a perfect bubble. But as Menachem Begin left office, some people got spooked. They sold their shares in the banks, and when they did, the banks did what they'd been doing for some years. They bought back their own shares, purchasing a billion dollars worth of them on October 6th alone, exhausting their reserves. This triggered a shutdown of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange that would last for 18 days. On October 10th, the day that Yitzhak Shamir took office as prime minister, the daily newspaper Davar ran a story headlined, There Was a Dream, It Is No More, about a young woman, a sergeant, in the IDF, crying outside her Na'aria bank branch, saying, For almost two years, I saved almost all of my army salary and bought stock in Bank Luumi because they told me it was safe. With that money, I was planning on fulfilling my life's dream and traveling abroad next month when I am discharged from the army. For two years, I have not been to a movie even once, not to mention a play."

"Now, also with her in TLV1's satellite studio in Bitzaron, Tel Aviv, you just heard her voice as a woman who, when you are with her, magical things like bus shelters, dispensing socks just happen."

"we will talk about this moment on this day as the bodies of the Bibases and Oded Lifshitz are being taken to the Pathology Institute here in Abu Kabir in Tel Aviv for identification."

"Then there's also this by the Abu Yadaya singers, the quote unquote Jewish people of Uganda."

"This is TLV1."

"Welcome to the Promise Podcast, brought to you on TLV1, the voice of the city wherein, as I planned to say before we learned about the Bibases and Oded, and which I'll go on and on about even after we learned about the Bibases and Oded Lifshitz, because that is what I can think of to do, go on and on, the voice of the city wherein, at some especially well-traveled bus stops, like the one right outside the Bima National Theater, you will these days find, built right into one side panel of the shelter, a slender compartment holding hundreds of plastic eggs."

"The musical producer of the song, a kid in his 20s from the neighborhoods named Moshe Levy, he bungled the instructions he'd gotten and made the rhythm tracks with a synthesizer, a sequencer, and a drum machine at twice the speed they were."

"It was now the height of Elul when Menachem Begin resigned, a month of repentance ahead of the days of awe."

"My question is, why have there been so intimate and warm and powerful a relationship between sports clubs and hostages, their family, and all the rest of us who care about the hostages and their families? Yeah, I felt this actually, you know, in real time. I was at Hirsch, Goldberg, Poland's funeral. I arrived really early because I was covering it for the newspaper. And as I was standing in the front waiting for the service to begin, I heard this like chanting behind me. And I was sure it was like some bunch of ultra-Orthodox people starting to pray and starting a prayer. And I turned around and it was all of the Hapoel fans, you know, waving the flags and they were swaying and they were chanting the, I guess, the fight song of the... Of the team with substitute words, you know, mourning Hirsch. And it was, you know, it was very prayerful. I was blown away. I had never seen anything like it in my life. I mean, I can only theorize about the power of it. You know, I think the key word that we used is family. I think that these sports teams and affiliations that go from generation to generation, that go from, I'm going to use male here because it tends to be more male, grandfathers to fathers to sons, I'm not saying that men can often be emotionally constipated, but I find sports in general, these teams and as just some sort of like great outlet for men who are otherwise maybe not given so much permission in society to show strong emotions, to have really strong feelings and emotions. And when they show up week after week, day after day at these events, all together experiencing these highs and lows and, you know, years of their team losing or, you know, years of their team winning and celebrating, it's, you know, it's this kind of tribal."

"Yafit Biso, but I didn't want to delay her. I did search for her on social media to try and glean more. She has a Facebook page where she sells bedazzled flip-flops that she makes herself. Her Facebook page description says in Hebrew that she is a mother of three, a grandmother of five, a taxi driver, and a flip-flop designer as a hobby out of love of crafts. The very first word, ima, has two spelling mistakes. Savta, grandmother, is also misspelled."