Ahead of this week's finale of the HBO/Keshet mini-series "Our Boys," host Simon Spungin talks to Allison Kaplan Sommer and Adrian Hennigan about the controversy surrounding a show that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called "anti-Semitic."

We ask: Did the show's creators harm Israel's image? Were they justified in focusing on the murder of a Palestinian teen, rather than the kidnap and murder of three Israelis that preceded it? And is Israel capable of taking a warts-and-all look at itself in the mirror?

Ahead of this week's finale of the <a href="https://www.hbo.com/our-boys">HBO/Keshet mini-series "Our Boys,"</a>&nbsp;host&nbsp;<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/WRITER-1.4968283">Simon Spungin</a> talks to <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/WRITER-1.4969038">Allison Kaplan Sommer</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/WRITER-1.4970267">Adrian Hennigan&nbsp;</a>about the controversy surrounding a show that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-netanyahu-blasts-hbos-our-boys-as-anti-semitic-calls-to-boycott-israeli-channel-1.7770684">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called "anti-Semitic."</a>
We ask: Did the show's creators harm Israel's image? Were they justified in focusing on the murder of a Palestinian teen, rather than the kidnap and murder of three Israelis that preceded it? And is Israel capable of taking a warts-and-all look at itself in the mirror?

From Haaretz – Israel's oldest daily newspaper – a weekly podcast in English on Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World, hosted by Allison Kaplan Sommer.

From Haaretz – Israel's oldest daily newspaper – a weekly podcast in English on Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World, hosted by Allison Kaplan Sommer.

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From Haaretz – Israel's oldest daily newspaper – the Haaretz weekly podcast in English on Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World, hosted by Allison Kaplan Sommer. 

From Haaretz – Israel's oldest daily newspaper – the Haaretz weekly podcast in English on Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World, hosted by Allison Kaplan Sommer.