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🗓️ 13 June 2025
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An unlikely intergenerational friendship between two soldiers tasked with freeing civilian hostages.
The end song is HaCholmim Achar Hashemesh ("Those Who Dream of the Sun") performed by David Lavi and Tamar Philosof.
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0:00.0 | Everybody jumped from the jeeps and the Mercedes. My knees collapsed. It took me in a second |
0:07.7 | to recover. And I didn't see my commander. I didn't see my commander. So I thought that he |
0:13.4 | already ran to the terminal. So I started to run as fast as I can and bypassing everybody |
0:19.4 | because I thought that I have to catch up with my commander. |
0:23.4 | As a matter of fact, it was two, three meters behind me. |
0:25.9 | And when I approached a terminal, suddenly on my left, I heard someone shouting that |
0:33.5 | Johnny was hit and I saw him falling. |
0:36.2 | And give or take in the same time, the glass of the |
0:39.8 | wall was broken and someone was in the terminal surrounded with many hostages and he was shooting |
0:45.0 | at me. I shot him through the glass. I saw his head falling. He was hit. I jumped into the |
0:52.8 | terminal and I thought that I'm not the first. |
0:57.0 | I was sure that my commander is already inside, but I suddenly saw that I'm alone in a huge |
1:02.5 | room with hundreds of hostages and several terrorists. |
1:07.0 | So I immediately changed my place, turned to the other side, and I saw two terrorists that were aiming at my back. |
1:13.0 | And at this very moment, my commander, who was running after me, came in through the door and shot them. |
1:18.7 | So you were the first Israeli soldier to enter the terminal at Antebi? |
1:24.6 | Yes. |
1:32.5 | Unintentionally, I was the first one to storm the building and to hit the major terrorist there. That's it. Hey, I'm Mishiharman and this is Israel's story. The man we just heard, a man who likes to end most of his understated sentences with |
1:49.4 | That's it, is Amir Offer. |
1:53.0 | Amir's a businessman from Evacere T Zion, who, back in July of 1976, participated in the |
2:00.2 | heroic rescue of over 100 Israeli hostages from the |
2:04.5 | Antebi airport in Uganda. Terrorists for the Palestinian cause hijacked Air France Flight 139 |
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