This week, Alpher discusses whether, in the wake of the mass demonstration in Tel Aviv marking the twentieth
anniversary of the murder of Yitzhak Rabin and his assassin’s brother “celebrating” the occasion by suggesting that
God remove President Rivlin and his associates from the world, Israel has learned anything from Rabin’s death; if
diplomatic negotiations in Vienna regarding an agreed solution for Syria have any meaning, given Russian bombing in
southern Syria near the Israeli border, Iran sending more and more troops to Syria, the US sending 50 commandos,
and Israel reportedly still intercepting Syrian arms shipments to Hezbollah; a "compare and contrast" of US and
Russian military behavior in Syria; how Russian military involvement affects Israel’s decision-making regarding
Syria; and potential factors for change there in addition to the Russian and Iranian military presence in Syria and
the new US token deployment;