Moshe Koppel

Welcome back to another episode of The Pulse of Israel here in our eternal and ancestral homeland, the land of Israel, in our beautiful indigenous ancestral capital city of Jerusalem since King David's time.

I am standing here today with Moshe Koppel of the Kohelet Policy Forum, which is one of the most... influential, even though we should be quiet about that,

but we don't have to be quiet about that, do we?

Influential think tanks here in Israel on the conservative right.

I'm joined by Moshe Koppel, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Beierlein University.

His research spans complexity theory, authorship detection, and social choice, the study of how groups make collective decisions.

He's also the founder of Dikta, which develops AI tools for studying Jewish texts, and the author of the books Meta Halacha and Judaism Straight Up.

And from that position [laughs], okay, I look at these narratives, and one side I believe, and one side I don't believe.

I believe the anxiety of the left because I can't get answers to the question of checks and balances on the right, not from Gadi Taub, not from Moshe Koppel.

People I respect, people I read and listen to, and when I want to dig in and get the answer, "But what checks executive power?" I get more talk about the court.

I've wanted to, I've wanted to weaken the Israeli Supreme Court for 20 years.

So I leave that question to Israeli citizens.

I mean, I was very interested in what I heard from, uh, Moishe Koppel in Israel.

My dear friend.

Your dear friend Moishe, who-