The president has tasked the former general – and Binyamin Netanyahu’s strongest rival – with building a new government. With just six weeks and barely a third of the Knesset seats on his side, will he succeed? Russia has a stalled front line with Ukraine but is bombarding harder from the air. And why the sale of the world’s oldest biographical reference annual matters.

Guests and host:

• Anshel Pfeffer, Israel correspondent
• Sondre Solstad, data journalist
• Catherine Nixey, Britain correspondent
• Ọrẹ Ogunbiyi, co-host of “The Intelligence”

Topics covered:

• Israel, Gadi Eisenkot, Binyamin Netanyahu
• Ukraine, Russia, Vladimir Putin
• Who’s Who, Britain, publishing

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