Thank you all for being here tonight, for being part of what is a very important conversation.

In a critical time, for Israel, a critical time for the Jewish people.

The video and the Tphila of the prayer that we just watched and listened to

touches the deepest recesses of our souls to see those faces, to see our heroes, to see our

brave soldiers fighting on the front line, defending not only Israel, but make no mistake,

defending Jews around the world wherever we are. We are forever grateful to them. We pray for

them. We daven that they're able to return safely with a sweeping victory,

bringing back all of the hostages and bringing peace to Israel it so deserves.

While our soldiers are fighting on the front lines of this war, in the south and the north of

Israel, what we quickly came to learn on October 8th was that

this war has many fronts. And among them, most notably among them, is the media war against Israel,

biased and unfair, inaccurate, and unjust, filled with too many distortions and too much hate.

And tonight, we're so grateful to welcome back a general of the army fighting the front lines.

Somebody who is right on that front line fighting daily, who has not stopped for a moment since this war began.

And that is our dear friend Ben Shapiro.

You, we all know, the media empire that Ben has built, the company that is the envy of other conservative media outlets.

There's no doubt an incredibly successful career.

But if you know Ben, then you know that this for him is so much more than a business.

This is personal. This is his soul.

This is his life. And that comes across on each and every podcast, each and every interview,

each and every debate, each and every lecture over the last six weeks. This is not Ben Shapiro,

the media personality. This is Ben Shapiro the Yid,

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