How has Israeli society shifted since October 7?
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Even as Israelis have grown more critical of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the last year, their complaints have been largely disconnected from Palestinian suffering. With a society shifting farther to the right and a media landscape that echoes the government’s narrative, how has the war changed at all for Israeli society? And what future awaits Israelis who oppose the actions being done in their name?
In this episode:
- Mairav Zonszein (@mairavz), Senior Israel Analyst, International Crisis Group
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Ashish Malhotra and Tamara Khandaker with Phillip Lanos, Cole van Miltenburg, Duha Mosaad, Hagir Saleh, and our host, Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editor is Hisham Abu Salah. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Munera Al Dosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, Israelis Reckon with the post-October 7th World. |
| 0:15.6 | We can't even process what we've been to because we are in the trauma. |
| 0:20.7 | We are just waiting them to come home. |
| 0:23.5 | So how has Israeli society been affected by this past year? |
| 0:29.6 | I'm Malika Bilal commemorations across the country. |
| 0:49.5 | More than 1,000 people were killed and about 250 were captured. |
| 0:54.4 | It was the deadliest attack in the country's history. |
| 0:57.6 | This is where she was killed. |
| 1:01.3 | So especially here. |
| 1:03.6 | We were last week, we were in the grave. |
| 1:07.4 | But this is the ceremony. |
| 1:09.8 | This is where she was. This is where she was happy |
| 1:12.9 | in the last her moment. It was here. In the year since, Israel's war on Gaza has killed over |
| 1:20.4 | 40,000 Palestinians, a number likely to be much higher due to those still buried under rubble |
| 1:26.6 | or in areas inaccessible |
| 1:28.3 | to medical teams. |
| 1:30.3 | To its north, Israel and Hasvala have been exchanging fire throughout the year. |
| 1:35.7 | But in recent weeks, Israeli attacks have expanded further into Lebanon, killing more than |
| 1:41.3 | 2,000 people. |
| 1:43.8 | So what does the war look like through the lens of Israeli society? |
| 1:48.0 | The scope and the level of what's happening on the ground here for all involved is an earthquake, |
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