# A Hot Summer in Israeli Politics Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/israel-policy-pod-1059263/a-hot-summer-in-israeli-politics Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/israel-policy-pod-1059263/a-hot-summer-in-israeli-politics.md Podcast: [Israel Policy Pod](https://stenobird.com/podcast/israel-policy-pod-1059263) Published: 2026-06-03T19:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/115663/episodes/19289842-a-hot-summer-in-israeli-politics.mp3 Audio file: https://www.buzzsprout.com/115663/episodes/19289842-a-hot-summer-in-israeli-politics.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/israel-policy-pod-1059263/episodes/a-hot-summer-in-israeli-politics Duration seconds: 4025 ## Resource On this week’s episode, Israel Policy Forum Policy Advisor and Tel Aviv-based journalist Neri Zilber hosts Dahlia Scheindlin, a political analyst and pollster, to discuss the current state of Israeli politics, what the polls are saying (and not saying) about the upcoming election, the mixed fortunes so far of the Bennett-Lapid merger, the rising Gadi Eisenkot, the role the Arab-Israeli political parties could play in the election, why voters are still drawn to Netanyahu's Likud party, what th... ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/israel-policy-pod-1059263/episodes/a-hot-summer-in-israeli-politics/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/israel-policy-pod-1059263/a-hot-summer-in-israeli-politics.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.