How Does It Feel to Be An Israeli Now? | Victoria Coates & Yuli-Yoel Edelstein

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4.6 • 808 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Yuli-Yoel Edelstein served as Speaker of the Israeli Knesset from 2013 to 2020. He was as shocked as the rest of the world by the violence of October 7th and the war that has followed. He sat down with Heritage Vice President Victoria Coates to talk about the effects of the war and Israel’s place within the world.

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0:00.0	Three, two, one, zero, all engine run.
0:06.7	There is no other institution that has the ability uniquely.
0:11.3	Without a heritage, every generation starts over.
0:14.5	To remind the current regime.
0:18.7	We the people tell the governor what it is allowed to do.
0:22.4	All
0:22.9	all
0:23.8	action to get back in their
0:26.7	box and stay there.
0:28.0	Lift-off.
0:28.9	We have a lookout.
0:31.9	From the Heritage Foundation,
0:34.0	this is Heritage
0:35.0	Explains.
0:40.8	Refusnik, it's a term that most of us would probably not be familiar with, and with good
0:46.2	reason.
0:47.1	It was associated with the now-defunct Soviet Union, the word referred particularly to
0:52.7	individuals who tried to leave the Soviet Union.
0:55.6	Very many of them Jews attempting to immigrate to Israel and were refused by the Soviet authorities.
1:01.9	Their attempt to leave often gained them suspicion and harassment from the communist government.
1:06.5	In 1977, Jewish student Yule Yol Edelstein became one such refusnik, after his denial for a visa to travel to Israel.
1:16.4	He then began to direct underground instruction in Hebrew, which eventually earned him a politically motivated prison sentence in Siberia.
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