De-Polarized By An Existential Threat

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Gigi Levy-Weiss is a former Apache helicopter pilot in the Israeli Air Force, a tech entrepreneur, and a member of Brothers In Arms, reservists who refused to support Netanyahu's government as it tried to reshape the country's highest court. Mike sat down with Levy-Weiss to discuss his role in a new organization called Brothers and Sisters of Israel, which is tasked with supporting soldiers, civilians, and, in a twist, the government he protested just months earlier. Also on the show, when a nation looks past its ideologies to band together despite its leader. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, November 14th, 2023 from Peach Fish Productions in Israel.
0:08.8	It's the gist, I'm Mike Paska.
0:11.2	If you want to understand the trauma of the Israelis, I don't just direct you to Ben
0:15.8	Zeman who serves in the Israeli military's rabbinate division. So he takes in the bodies,
0:21.3	he identifies them, prepares them, purifies them.
0:24.7	The trauma isn't in the number of bodies, which have been over a thousand from the day he started last month.
0:31.3	The trauma isn't in this self-described sensitive guy whose job it was to handle
0:37.4	so many bodies. The trauma may be best understood in what could not be understood. So most of Ben's colleagues
0:46.1	couldn't continue on with their job. They weren't trained or prepared for what
0:51.3	they saw on October 7th. So they did what they say you should do. They talked
0:58.8	about their trauma, the trauma they couldn't process, even though it was their job.
1:03.3	They talked about it with people
1:06.2	for whom talking about it was their jobs
1:10.5	and here's what Ben's colleagues found.
1:13.0	Close to half of my friends couldn't take anymore.
1:16.0	One of them actually went to a psychologist two weeks ago,
1:18.0	and after 20 minutes he said, I'm really sorry,
1:21.0	I can't help you.
1:22.0	I can't hear your stories stories you'll have to find
1:24.5	someone else who else everyone else in this country of 10 million Ben is a rabbi a
1:30.9	member of the military, and Israeli.
1:33.0	He lived for a time in the US, Memphis, Tennessee, not Egypt,
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