64: Tell Saki - Part II

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🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

We conclude our two-part Tell Saki story by returning to the soldiers after the battle and following their respective journeys - full of pain and regret, but also full of longing and camaraderie - in the years since the Yom Kippur War.

Yochai Maital produced, scored and sound-designed the episode. Mishy Harman edited it. Sela Waisblum created the mix. Thanks to our dubbers - Shlomo Maital, Boaz Dekel, Suri Krieger, Shai Avivi and Dror Keren. Thanks also to the Friendship and Heritage Foundation - an NGO set up by the survivors of Tell Saki to commemorate their fallen friends - and to Dan Almagor, Daniel Jankovich, Shai Satran and Sharon Rapaport. Some of the primary written sources for our Tell Saki project include Hallie Lerman’s Crying for Imma, Menachem Ansbacher’s memoir, Rsis MiMagash HaKesef, and Robby Rijkmans’ book of published correspondence between the Tell Saki survivors – ‘Knights Without Armor.'

Much of the music in the episode is by cellist Leat Sabbah, with additional music by Doug Maxwell and Yochai Maital. The end song is Nifgashnu Shuv ("We Met Again") is sung by Dudu Zakai, music and lyrics by Shaike Paikov.

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0:00.0	You're listening to this podcast, so I know you care about the war in Israel right now.
0:08.0	And you've been reading the headlines.
0:10.0	Massacre and Gaza, genocide perpetrated by Hamas, no by Israel.
0:15.0	But if you've been listening to this podcast long enough, you know one thing.
0:20.0	This stuff seems complicated, and honestly you shouldn't just pick aside or decide your opinion without really learning without really knowing what you're talking about.
0:31.0	And that's where this podcast comes in. Check out unpacking Israeli
0:36.4	history. They have episodes with topics ranging from what is Hamas anyway to whether Israel should ransom captured soldiers and the history of
0:46.8	Israel and its disengagement from Gaza in 2005.
0:51.8	Unpacking Israeli history cuts through the noise and helps you understand Israel's
0:56.2	present through understanding Israel's history.
0:59.8	So educate yourself. Learn the history behind the headlines. Find unpacking Israeli history
1:07.4	wherever you get your podcasts. On that first night in Tel-Saki I had a dream. In the dream I'm sitting inside the bunker. It's cold and somber and overwhelming sadness pervades the darkness. All my friends are crying. Ronnie, he's crying the hardest of all.
1:38.0	I am present, but no one can see me. I watch with them as my body is lowered into the freshly dug grave.
1:47.0	Dirt is shoveled onto my rigid warped form.
1:51.4	No one speaks. Only muffled sounds of tears are heard except for running. He sobs openly without shame.
2:11.0	Hey, I'm Ishih Harmon and this is Israel's story. What we just heard was an excerpt from a print interview with Schlomavital, one of the soldiers at Telsaki.
2:18.0	In our last episode, Telsaki Part 1, we told the story of one specific battle that took place on the Golan Heights during the opening days of the Omquipu War.
2:30.0	If you haven't heard it yet, I strongly recommend you pause this episode and go listen to part one first.
2:37.0	Because today we'll conclude our two-part series by returning to the soldiers after the battle
2:43.0	and following their journey in the years since the war.
2:47.7	As you might recall, we ended the previous episode
2:50.6	on the morning of October 8th, 1973, when some two dozen tired and injured
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