Bar-Ilan University

We're on the line to Professor Jonathan Rynhold.

Jonathan is a professor in the Department of Political Studies in Bar-Ilan University.

And Jonathan, today's election, we are pre-recording this, but when we air it, it will still be before the polls close.

Where do you put it in Israeli political, Israeli history altogether? Jonathan Rynhold

So here you have someone who made an Israeli Jew, the former head of the police's number two, who dismantled the Shura Council of Muslim leaders of his party, and he's still getting five seats in the polls.

And I think it's a tragedy that this type of Arab leader, who we've never really had before in Israeli politics, that the Israeli public is too traumatized to see that actually there's a real opportunity here.

Professor Jonathan Rynhold is a professor in the Political Studies Department of Bar-Ilan University.

Very soon, Jonathan, we'll know what the numbers are and then we'll start learning over the coming weeks.

He said the following, whether the right or the left wins, there is likely to be a wave of Aliyah from France.

Bar-Ilan University, like other Israeli universities, is already absorbing more French-speaking students He said the president of Bar-Ilan University made a joke about a French cartoon ahead of the presidential elections showing Jews undecided how to vote, whether to choose Jerusalem or Netanya.

In other words, to get out of France.

So...

And guard dogs are mentioned in the Bible as well in the book of Isaiah.

In fact, Dr. Joshua Schwartz at Bar-Ilan University hypothesizes that the kings of Israel and Judah probably kept guard dogs.

Given the likelihood that the Israelites used herding and guard dogs, we can also assume there was a whole profession of dog trainers and handlers.

people with the specialized knowledge to turn a dog into a valuable working animal.

And, you know, Art and I in the last decade spend, you know, many, many, many, many hours on the phone, you know, kind of in deep paired dyadic study.

You know, when he was here at the house, you know, many times where we kind of, you know, here in the Northeast, So I viewed those four really, you know, as my kind of, you know, horsemen colleagues, even though, you know, we're doing different things and we don't, we, you know, barely communicate, you know, um, and you know, just everyone's in their own worlds, but, but all, I think all of us would agree, you know, I took it, you know, and I had a long conversation with Moshe, um, in the library of Bar-Ilan University in 2001. or two, where I described to him my book, Mystery of Love, which was supposed to be called On the Erotic and the Holy, and my editor at Simon & Schuster, Emily Bessler, thought Mystery of Love would sell more, and I had not read my contract carefully, so she had the right to title it, but my title for it was On the Erotic and the Holy, and then ultimately I released, with Sounds True, a kind of audio presentation called On the Erotic and the Holy, But it's about eros and holiness.

And so I shared with Moshe the essential thesis of this eros work and eros and shekhinah, eros and zar.

And Moshe was excited about it.

When I looked at, I watched a television debate with a bunch of the leaders of the various parties, and they were asked, do you favor in any shape or form, in any sequence, in any timetable, a Palestinian state? And pretty much everyone said no.

In fact, the only thing that happened was Bibi Netanyahu was attacked because 10 or 15 years ago in his Bar-Ilan speech, he had come out for a Palestinian state.

So he's on the left on the Israeli spectrum right now.

Right, when you don't know

Still haunted by his failed first premiership, Netanyahu knew he couldn't pick a direct fight with Washington and hope to win.

All of which led to his response at Bar-Ilan University a week and a half after Obama's Cairo speech.

For the first time in his political career, Bibi used the words Palestinian and state in the same sentence.

There was, of course, a Gaza-sized asterisk attached to the proposal.

Today we're going to see a response by the Sri De'esh from Shud Sri De'esh, Chalak Aleph, the first part, Semen Kuf Lamed Dalet, Chapter 134.

And I'm not sure why, but by Bar Ilan, they choose to include the page numbers in the original printing of the Sri De'esh.

So if you've got a Sri D.H. and you're reading it, it starts on page 416.

It's on the 15th of Cheshvan of Tafrish Salibet.