Welcome back to the untold story, everybody.

Back in 2023, after the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel,

I spoke with Israeli public health physician and epidemiologist Dr. Hagi Levine,

as he shared how he helped to provide medical assistance to the survivors of the attack that day.

The conversation was so impactful and looking back at the horror of that day and those who stepped into help,

we thought it needed to be shared again.

We have this breaking news,

a lot of positive momentum with a peace deal

between Hamas and Israel.

Dr. Hagi Levine, wonderful to have you with us.

Thank you for joining us today.

Hello.

Doctor, if you could begin by telling everybody who's listening and watching what your life was like, what you were doing and working on on October 6th, and how all of that changed for you on October 7th?

Well, I'm the chairman of the Israeli Association of Public Health Physicians,

and I dealt, you know, heavily in the last years with COVID and with other epidemics such as obesity and smoking.

And although we don't mention it now,

but to tell you the truth, I was one of the

leaders of the White Coates Movement for Healthier Democracy in Israel, of the health care professionals.

So on October 6th, I was with the veterans of the Yom Kippur War warning that if the reform would not stop, we may have

a worse disaster than happened in Yom Kippur War in 73.

It's unbelievable that this warning actually fulfilled on exactly the day after on October 7th.

What do you remember about waking up that morning on October the 7th?

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