# Funeral Five Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/inside-israel-with-joel-chasnoff-6721864/funeral-five Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/inside-israel-with-joel-chasnoff-6721864/funeral-five.md Podcast: [Inside Israel with Joel Chasnoff](https://stenobird.com/podcast/inside-israel-with-joel-chasnoff-6721864) Published: 2026-07-29T10:45:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/inside-israel-with-joel-chasnoff/episodes/6a67b3400bd0d38defaabda9 Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66b1cddb8ad6ad827c0527f0/e/6a67b3400bd0d38defaabda9/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/inside-israel-with-joel-chasnoff-6721864/episodes/funeral-five Duration seconds: 1939 ## Resource Joel reflects on the death of IDF Officer Yuval Ezra z''l, killed in a chaotic and preventable episode in the West Bank — and discusses his personal, circuitous connection to the Ezra family and what Ezra’s death says about the current moment in Israel. -------------- Support Inside Israel: Contribute Book Joel during his spring/fall 2026 lecture and comedy tour: www.joelchasnoff.com To learn more about Inside Israel, and to submit a question for Joel to answer on-air, visit www.joelchasnoff.com/podcast   Sign up for Joel’s newsletter, Hebrew Is Magic: www.joelchasnoff.com Joel’s tour schedule: www.joelchasnoff.com/shows Joel on Instagram: @joelchasnoff   Israel 201 , co-authored by Joel and Benji Lovitt and Winner of the 2023 National Jewish Book Award: www.joelchasnoff.com/books Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/inside-israel-with-joel-chasnoff-6721864/episodes/funeral-five/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/inside-israel-with-joel-chasnoff-6721864/funeral-five.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.