What's incredible about the Holy Land is that it is the Holy Land.

It is the center in some sense of the modern world.

All of our history is built around the stories of the Bible,

and you are literally walking in the steps that Jesus walked when you are in Jerusalem.

To me, what it looks like, especially when I'm here, and that's why I'm feeling it so strongly

right now, it feels like what it's done is basically taken all of you and this entire country

and taken coal, and it just keeps grinding it and grinding it and, you know, condensing it and

convincing it, and it's left a diamond here.

I met with an incredible young lady whose name is Moran.

My name is Maan Salina, and I'm 41 years old.

Being helped captive for 54 days.

You know, at one point, I had to entertain them

for over 13 hours.

I had to play with them cards, make them happy,

make them laugh, you know? And I'm hungry. I think one of the real through lines is they have very little pity for themselves. They don't walk around in pity. They just don't. It's like some bad shit happened and then they move on. It's really incredible. When you talk to people who like, who actually are just living it. Yeah, that might have been my most enjoyable conversation so far.

What does the country and region look like post-war? Well, that's the million-dollar question. What does this place look like post-war? Well, first of off, I think we're getting there.

How many times have you been to Israel?

So this was actually my sixth trip to Israel.

I was first there in 1997.

When I was 21, I was there again in 99.

My sister married in Israeli in the old city of Yaffa in 2012 or so. And then this was my third time in the last three years,

actually. We had started, we had gone there three years ago to do a documentary about a strong country that was fighting for its life and doing it well. We had shot that documentary. We were about to put it up,

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