#230 - The Man Who Took Down An Islamic Terrorist (Kfir Itzhaki)

Two Nice Jewish Boys

Eytan and Naor

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1.7 • 804 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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*This episode is sponsored by Masa Israel Journey. Check them out at http://masaisrael.org/twonicejewishboys * Exclusive subscription offer for podcast listeners: Get 6 months of The Forward for only $15: forward.com/2njb Naturally, there are feelings that we don’t enjoy. Feelings we feel we’d be better off without. Hate, sadness, fear. Fear, what a useless emotion. Right? Almost a century ago, at his inaugural address, FDR said those now famous words, “There is nothing to fear but fear itself.” But hasn’t fear been ensuring our survival since the dawn of our species? Would we really be nature’s apex predator if we didn’t have that cautious, neurotic, loss-averse coward we all do deep down inside? Kfir Itzhaki has been fascinated with fear all his life. He faced fear time and time again, as a professional martial art fighter, as a fauda-style ‘mista’arev’ in Duvdevan unit in the IDF, and as a citizen who stormed an Islamic terrorist during the second intifada. Today, Kfir lectures on fear and the art of dealing with it, and his new book “Unconventional Weapon”, is all about utilizing fear to our advantage. 2NJB is happy to have Kfir Itzhaki on the show.

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0:00.0	This is Aiton Weinstein.
0:01.7	And I'm Naor Menninger, and you're listening to Two Nice Jewish Boys.
0:12.0	This podcast is sponsored by The Forward.
0:14.9	Stay up to date with unlimited access to news, culture, and opinion all through a Jewish lens.
0:23.5	And for our listeners, for 2 NJB listeners, get six months of the foreword for 15 bucks. An exclusive subscription offer for our listeners
0:29.5	forward.com slash 2NJB and get six months for 15 bucks. Also in collaboration with Arutzheva, Israel National News.com.
0:41.0	And last but not least, in collaboration with Australian Jewish News,
0:45.3	check them out at a.jn.timesofisrael.com. Naturally, there are feelings that we don't enjoy.
1:05.1	Feelings we feel we'd be better off without.
1:08.1	Hate, sadness, fear.
1:16.2	Fear. What a useless emotion right almost a century ago at his inaugural address a different inaugural address than we just had a few days ago fDR said those now
1:23.9	famous words there is nothing to fear but fear itself. But hasn't fear been ensuring
1:31.1	our survival since the dawn of our species? Would we really be nature's apex predator if we
1:38.7	didn't have that cautious, neurotic, loss-averse coward we all do deep down inside. Kfiritaki has been fascinated with
1:48.3	fear all his life. He faced fear time and time again as a professional martial art fighter,
1:53.7	as a Fowda style Mista Arev in the Dov-D-D-Van unit of the IDF, and as a citizen who
2:00.4	stormed an Islamiclamic terrorist during the
2:02.1	second intifada today kfir lectures on fear and the art of dealing with fear and his new book
2:08.6	unconventional weapon is all about utilizing fear to our advantage so we are super thrilled not
2:15.2	scared at all to have kifri Traki on the podcast today.
2:18.3	Thank you so much for joining us.
2:20.0	Hi.
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