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The Rubin Report

How Israel Turned Division Into a Strength | Yoram Hazony | INTERNATIONAL | Rubin Report

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News

4.614.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Yoram Hazony about how Israel is prospering despite its political tribalism; how desalination has enabled it to become an exporter of water in the Middle East; why the U.S. has falling birthrates while Israel's are rising; why most Israeli citizens join the Israeli military; why Christians are seeking more help from Jews in understanding the Old Testament; the benefits of nationalism; and how secularism has backfired in America.


0:00 Intro

1:03 What Israel is Doing Right

5:11 What America Can Learn from Israel

9:36 The Need for Christianity in America

14:06 How to Support Other Religious Subcultures

19:46 What It's Like Living in Jerusalem

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0:00.0

So, Yoram, we've sat down several times over the years, and one of the things that I'm really

0:12.2

interested in right now is figuring out how

0:15.2

Israel can help America because clearly you guys have some issues here nobody's

0:19.7

denying that but America has a whole lot of issues and we seem to export issues across the

0:25.2

world we have you know political division we have this blue state red

0:29.6

state situation we're we seem to be lacking a national cohesion at the moment.

0:34.8

And one thing that I'm seeing very strongly in Israel is despite a certain division and

0:39.8

this judicial reform situation and religious and

0:43.8

and all of those things.

0:45.2

There is still something that's binding this country together

0:48.0

and I have not been here in eight years and when I see the difference

0:56.4

of Jerusalem from eight years ago it is unbelievable and I mean unbelievable going in the right direction where so many of our big cities and this is the biggest

1:00.7

city in the country are going in the other direction.

1:03.8

So I actually don't want to focus on the problems.

1:07.2

What is right here right now?

1:10.6

Or have I completely misdiagnosed it?

1:12.2

I don't think I have on this beautiful day and I should mention we're probably on the best real estate in the entire country right now.

1:17.5

Yeah, sure. Always a pleasure to meet you next to the hotel Kotel and the temple mount.

1:23.7

Not bad.

1:24.2

You know, that's our past and that's our future right here

1:28.9

in one camera shot.

1:31.6

No, I think I basically agree with you. Israel always has problems

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