Hey listeners, it's Mishi.

So obviously everything here has changed since Saturday when the horrific murderous attacks by Hamas began.

The members of our team are safe, thank God, but all around us, friends, family, colleagues, people have died, people are missing, people have been kidnapped. The extent of it all is just shocking.

And there's still a lot of uncertainty, of course.

Like basically everyone else here, we're all involved in a million different initiatives, organizing housing, clothes, food, blood drives, preparing shelters.

But in all of this, we're also

going together with some of Israel's other leading podcasters to bring you some voices and

testimonies that paint a picture or try to paint a picture of these devastating times.

The voices you'll hear are raw. These aren't full stories. Most of them aren't even edited.

Some of them contain views that aren't ours. But we're collecting them and releasing them as fast as we can because we think

it's crucial and central to our mission that you be able to hear what we're hearing now.

This morning, Sasha Ariyev came into our studio. Here she is. So we're here with Sasha.

Sasha Ariiv. Hi, Sasha. Hi. Can you tell me a little bit about yourself?

Yes. So my name is Sasha. I'm 24 years old, born and raised in Israel.

And now currently I'm a master's student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

I'm studying biomedical research on the emphasis of neurobiology.

And I have a little sister this is me

this is how I want to present myself

and tell me about your sister

so as I said

she's my little sister

she's 19

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