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Presented by Jason Solomons and produced by Sarah Peters

Sounds Jewish podcast: Israeli elections aftermath and the Gerald Scarfe cartoon

Join Jason Solomons and guests, award-winning novelist Naomi Alderman, Middle East analyst at Chatham House and director of International Relations at Regents Park College Yossi Mekelberg, and writer and documentary-maker Alexander Bodin Saphir.

The elections in Israel may be over and the votes counted, but such is the complexity of coalition politics in Israel, the final makeup of Binyamin Netanyahu's government is still being negotiated. But what happened to the predicted surge to the extreme right?

What do the panel make of Gerald Scarfe's controversial cartoon in the Sunday Times, depicting Netanyahu building a wall on the bodies of Palestinians and using their blood as cement?

And as Oscar night approaches, we take a look at two of the shortlisted documentaries, The Gatekeepers and 5 Broken Cameras: both from Israel but with very different takes on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We ask the director of The Gatekeepers, Dror Moreh, what motivated six former directors of the Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet to talk so candidly.

And the Tricycle Theatre in London is adapting the award-winning 2005 documentary Paper Dolls, the story of Filipino carers-by-day-transvestite-karaoke-stars-by-night in Israel. Naomi Alderman talks about how refreshing it is to see Israel portrayed in terms other than the conflict.

• Sounds Jewish is produced by the Jewish Community Centre for London

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