63: Tell Saki - Part I

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🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

We embark on a two-episode journey back to the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and specifically to one small hill - a dormant volcanic tell - in the southern Golan Heights. There, we follow a group of young IDF soldiers who, trapped in a small bunker for thirty-six hours, went to hell and back.

Yochai Maital produced, scored and sound-designed the episode. Mishy Harman edited it. Sela Waisblum created the mix. Thanks to the Friendship and Heritage Foundation, an NGO set up by the survivors of Tell Saki to commemorate their fallen friends. Thanks also to Aviram Barkai, Moshe Givati, Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History, Halli Lerman, Reuven Gal, Boaz Dekel, Suri Krieger, Sharon Rapaport and Ya’akov Seh Lavan for his help in fact-checking this story. Ya’akov also leads tours of Tell Saki and runs an escape room experience on the mound. Much of the music in the episode is by Leat Sabbah, with additional music by Jorge Mejia, Doug Maxwell and Yochai Maital. The end song, Adaber Itcha (I Shall Talk to You), is sung by Chava Alberstein. Its lyrics were written by Rachel Shapira, and its music by Alona Turel.

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0:00.0	Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you
0:08.3	slide by on track to your
0:15.0	there,
0:20.0	to care in the world as you simply lean back.
0:17.0	And before you know it, you're there.
0:20.0	This is how travels should feel,
0:22.0	and on our trains it does.
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0:40.0	And you've been reading the headlines, Massacre and Gaza, genocide perpetrated by Hamas, no by Israel.
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1:57.0	To Pete's who was beside me during the most crucial part of our military training, and who, together with me, wrote the first chapter of what was meant to be a widely funny book before the sky fell on us. To Pete's my sole brother
2:07.3	who tried to break through hundreds of Syrian soldiers in order to reach me, who is still trying to reach me.
2:14.0	The Ilana is still trying to reach me.
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