In this episode of Judeacation, Josh Hasten unpacks a quiet bureaucratic move that may mark the beginning of Israeli sovereignty in the heart of the Jewish homeland.

But as civilian authority is handed over from the army to civilian hands, chaos brews: a Jewish woman is nearly kidnapped in Jericho, international outrage over the legalization of Jewish communities, and foreign media spinning terrorist arrests as “ethnic cleansing.” 

Is this the dawn of normalization or the spark before the next storm?