Close Read reads political questions through two disciplines: a rabbi's training in interpreting contested texts and arguing in good faith, and a technologist's eye for incentives and second-order effects, from an American and Israeli vantage.
Each show takes one question and goes to the primary sources. It quotes them in their own words, links every claim to where it came from, and leaves the judgment to you.
Shows
Israel Elections 2026
What every party running in Israel's October 27, 2026 Knesset election has published, one party per episode, in the Central Elections Committee's list order. Each episode walks the party's platform, website and official statements across the same twelve topics, quotes it in its own words, and says plainly where nothing was published. It describes and never grades.
Who makes it
Close Read is made by Ben Greenberg.
Corrections
If something in an episode does not match its source, write to ben@yalladevrel.com with the episode and the line. Corrections are made on the episode page. The rules each show follows are on its own page, for example how Israel Elections 2026 is made.
