A Father’s Loss, A Nation’s Resolve: Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S.
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Dr. Phil McGraw
4.3 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Israel's Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter opens up to Dr. Phil about leadership in wartime, personal loss, and how nations and families find the strength to go on.
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| 0:00.0 | My special guest is Israel's ambassador to the United States. |
| 0:05.0 | If we did what we're being accused of doing, it's quite possible that my son would be alive today. |
| 0:11.0 | They're not just talking about Israel. They're talking about the destruction of the West. |
| 0:16.0 | They're talking about the destruction of America. |
| 0:19.0 | Our battle is really a battle for civilization. |
| 0:22.3 | What do we need to say to get people to hear this? |
| 0:28.4 | On October 7th, the world watched unspeakable violence unfold in Israel. Families murdered, children taken |
| 0:40.5 | hostages, lives shattered in a matter of hours. Since that day, the conversation has become louder, |
| 0:47.8 | angrier, and more divided. But tonight, we're going to slow this down and talk about the human cost behind the headlines. |
| 0:57.0 | Now, my special guest is Israel's ambassador to the United States. |
| 1:03.0 | He speaks for a nation at war, but he also speaks as a father who buried his own son, |
| 1:09.0 | a son who served his country, a son who never came home. |
| 1:14.7 | We're going to talk about grief, about responsibility, about rising anti-Semitism here in the United States, |
| 1:22.6 | and about what the world is getting right and wrong about this war. |
| 1:28.3 | So please welcome Israel's ambassador to the United States. |
| 1:32.3 | Thank you so much, Ambassador Lider, for being here and talking about this. |
| 1:36.3 | Thank you, Dr. Phil. It's good to be with you. |
| 1:38.3 | Well, I thank you for being here because something has got to happen, first to tone down the rhetoric |
| 1:46.2 | and to set right all of the misinformation |
| 1:50.8 | that is flooding the airwaves, the internet. |
| 1:54.5 | This is a different war because I think the digital age, |
| 1:59.2 | we used to be in a 24-hour news cycle, then it became a 30-minute news cycle, and now it is a minute-to-minute news cycle in this digital age. |
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