As regular visitors to this site know, Latma, the donor-funded Hebrew language media satire website has taken a break from our regular weekly satirical television on internet newscast The Tribal Update to explore new ideas. We’ll be coming back next week. In the meantime, here are a bunch of sketches we’ve worked on in recent weeks. I hope you enjoy them…
I am travelling now and so have been very much out of the loop for the past several days. But I have noticed a couple of things that I think need to be pointed out. First, there is Syria. Today it was reported that the Syrian regime is threatening Israel with chemical weapons. According to Reuters’ report: Foreign Ministry spokesman…
This week on Latma unplugged, our experimental pause before launching a new/improved Tribal Update, we bring you an example of Israeli news analysis at its best. And here’s another one we produced following the news that several anti-Israel groups are playing major behind-the-scenes roles in producing this summer’s anti-capitalist demonstrations. Over the next…
I have not had the opportunity to read the court decision on Olmert. And so my thoughts on his acquittal have little to do with the merits of the prosecution in the three cases adjudicated by the Jerusalem District Court. I have a problem with corruption investigations against politicians generally and against Ehud Olmert specifically. In general, I find…
As I mentioned last Friday, my team and I at Latma, the Hebrew-language media satire website I run, decided to take some time off from our flagship television-on-Internet satirical newscast The Tribal Update. We’re using our time now to develop and try out new concepts, actors, production techniques and basically let ‘er rip. This week we came up with several…
Last week I participated in the President’s Conference, hosted by Shimon Peres at the Binyanei Hauma convention center in Jerusalem. I took part in a panel discussing Israel’s final borders. Yesterday the conference organizers posted the video of my panel on their website. It’s a bit hard to follow for non-Hebrew speakers because the panel was conducted in Hebrew and…
This week Latma produced the 150th episode of the Tribal Update! We’ve been working week in and week out for the past three years with barely a one week break. I don’t think that any television show in the history of television — aside from the news — has such an uninterrupted production record. As you can imagine, my team…
To the Leaker-in-Chief with love from Latma. Latma is funded through contributions to the Center for Security Policy in Washington. If you are in the United States and would like to support our efforts, you can contribute by clicking here. It takes you to the online contribution page for the Center for Security Policy through Network for Good. To…
I just saw this YouTube video from the Jerusalem Post conference in New York on April 29. If you feel like watching my speech, it starts at 41:38.