The Bus Routes Nobody Owns

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · May 23, 2026 · 26m

East Jerusalem's 360,000 Palestinian residents hold Israeli permanent residency but navigate a city with three separate school systems, unlicensed Palestinian bus cooperatives, and hospitals licensed by Jordan. This episode explores how parallel institutions emerged not from deliberate policy but from a vacuum left by Israeli withdrawal—and how a new Knesset bill could lock people into whichever system they're already in. We trace the buses, the hospital budgets, and the textbooks that reveal a city operating under multiple, contradictory authorities at once. Episode 3021 —…