When analyzing the broadcast schedule of Channel 14, it is easy to notice the tendency to imitate the broadcast channels by mirroring programs for the opposite extreme, as if this is how an alternative should be conducted.
I want to say, when the studios in Modiin tried to figure out which morning program would be suitable for them, then the default was to entrust the daily 9 am broadcast in the embracing hands of the religious Paula and Leon - Eden Harel and Oded Menashe.
The religious Paula and Leon.
Eden and Oded,
And really, starting this week, Eden and Oded start the day on Channel 14 with conversations about the differences between women and men, arguing about caring for a sick child (Oded: "Excess pampering kills children", Eden: "It bothers you that you're not in the center. Do you remember how you are when you're sick? ").
In addition, differences in hygiene between the sexes are highlighted (Ode: "You are annoying in matters of cleanliness") and the viewers' questions are answered (what does it mean to be a famous couple? That there will always be people who will eat his head during prayer in the synagogue).
Basically, "Eden and Oded" are the conservative answer of 14 to the "progressive troll" of Paula Rosenberg in 12, but as a morning program they do like everyone else - they interview Hali Maman about diets, host an ultra-Orthodox TikTok star, discuss education and family, flood problems regarding For the care of children with special needs, they highlight advertising content, make videos with the flash, recommend trips to Gush Etzion and share life advice from the Gemara.
Exactly what Channel 14 needed - a complete program without attacking, inciting and dirtying, without populism, provocations and spreading fake news.
A program that makes pleasant.
Still, something is stuck in the format.
Perhaps birth defects and perhaps the fact that everything takes place in a large-scale news studio are what make it difficult for the interviewees and moderators to feel comfortable and let loose.
But Oded did not say to give up, because right now in "Eden and Oded" there is potential to develop as an accurate, intimate, enlightening and embracing niche program.
"We don't have a TV at home, but we have a computer," they said yesterday, and this detail may hint at how they came up with a program so disconnected from the well-known DNA of the channel where it is broadcast.
Without attacking, inciting and dirtying.
"Eden and Oded", photo: Channel 14
When the couple hosted a sociologist who explained the need for parents to play with their children, Oded Menashe remembered the story of Rabbi Nachman of Breslav about a man who thought he was a chicken.
All the residents of the town did not know how to react to the situation, only one rabbi got down from under the table and said 'I am a chicken like you.'
And suddenly there were two roosters in the story, until the Rebbe told him "I'm tired, let's sit on a chair".
sat down
Then, "I'm hungry, let's eat something."
"And so, from below he lifted him up," concluded Menashe, "maybe we too will become roosters?".
Eden and Oded are chickens in the world of now 14. Unusual in the radical landscape of most broadcast programs.
"Eden and Oded", now 09:00, 14
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