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Miriam Herschlag and Noah Efron discuss (1) Prime Minister Netayahu’s trip to DC to break bread with President Donald Trump, to dot the I’s an cross the T’s on an expected-at-any-moment temporary cease-fire and hostage release deal with Hamas, and (2) Should Israeli doctors do triage on hostages, helping politicians choose who should come home first and who last in the upcoming cease-fire and hostage return deal with Hamas?

Plus, a Trump hotel in Tel Aviv, talking teddy bears of people slain on October 7, bees, and a tribute to a remarkable man, Berhanu Yoseph, may his memory be for a blessing.

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