I'm Dave Rubin and joining me.

Today is a U.S. federal judge right here in the Southern District of Florida and author of the newly released book, Israel on trial, examining the history, the evidence, and the law.

Judge Roy K. Altman. Welcome to the Rubin Report. That's a beautiful looking book. Thanks for having. It is a nice looking book. Look how nice it looks. I feel before we get into the book, though, we have to do a little housekeeping here. First off, although we are going to fix a little of this in post-production, you kind of, the way I'm looking at you

right now, look a little small, but you are a very, very tall person. I've met you many times in person,

and that should be noted. It's just important. You sit behind a bench, a desk all day.

A Jewish man is above six foot four and weighs 220 pounds. It should be noted.

And not only that, but we met in the strangest of all places.

This is right, I don't know, a few months after October 7th, I was taking a tour of Southern Israel

and had went to the site of the Nova Festival and to some of the kibbutz down there to see the devastation.

And I'm at a gas station, having a schnitzel. The war is in full bloom.

I mean, there are bombs going off. You can hear explosions constantly. And I see this tall guy,

something, something babbling about Florida. You came set high. And it turns out, we're not

going to exactly reveal everything about ourselves. But we live basically within walking distance of each other,

and you're a federal judge right down here in the Miami area. So it is a small, strange world, I suppose. We had to go all the way to the Gaza envelope for that. I think I said, what are you doing here? And you said, I'm having a schnitzel. What are you doing here? I'm like, what, nine in the morning? Of course I'm having a schnitzel.

That was the best schnitzel I ever had, honestly.

I mean, it's not really nine in the

morning for us Americans, because, you know, we're seven hours behind, so we're all speaking. All right. So, before we, so anyway, it was a strange way to meet, but here we are. Let's start just with a little bit about being a judge in Florida because everyone knows my

my love of this great free state and that so much is so functional and wonderful down here.

Talk a little bit about your history, what got you involved in that, and maybe a little bit about

just the Florida situation, and then we'll spend the rest of time on the book.

Yeah, when I was very little, knew that I wanted to be in public service my whole life.

My family was from Venezuela.

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