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Political correspondent Tal Schneider joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today’s episode.

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The Knesset voted early Friday morning to disband itself ahead of the October 27 election, heading into a recess after the coalition’s last-ditch blitz succeeded in passing a spate of controversial legislation into law.

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