Israel is a Magical Place (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_961)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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Society & Culture, Science, Education

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🗓️ 1 February 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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This clip stems from an XSpaces session that I hosted on February 1, 2026: https://x.com/GadSaad/status/2018042699480232384?s=20 _______________________________________ My forthcoming book Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind is now available for pre-order: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/suicidal-empathy-gad-saad?variant=44726319317026 _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad To subscribe to my exclusive content on X, please visit my bio at https://x.com/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted on February 1, 2026 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1986: https://youtu.be/zQB1OzKKCvU _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0	All right, thank you very much for joining me today.
0:03.0	I wanted to do a retrospective about my recent trip to Israel.
0:10.0	I was fortunate enough to be able to bring my family, my wife and kids.
0:15.0	It was their first time in Israel, but it was my fourth time.
0:20.0	The first time was in 1983.
0:22.1	I spent the whole summer there.
0:24.6	Second time was in 1984.
0:26.9	I also spent the whole summer there.
0:29.3	And then I didn't go back for another 15 years.
0:32.6	I went back in 1999 in the summer.
0:36.0	I was speaking at a behavioral economics type of conference, academic
0:41.5	conference in Israel.
0:44.3	And this was my first time back, so my fourth time, but my first time back since 1999.
0:50.9	I had been invited by the Israeli government, specifically by Minister Amichael Shikli,
0:59.1	who is the Minister of Diaspora, to a conference on global anti-Semitism.
1:06.7	And I was one of the keynote speakers.
1:09.6	I posted my keynote the keynote speakers. I posted the the my keynote address on X but I haven't yet uploaded it on my
1:17.6	YouTube channel and on my podcast I'll probably do so tomorrow so please check it out.
1:22.6	It's it was a beautiful venue know, a lot of people attended.
1:29.5	It was really wonderful.
1:31.0	Got a chance to meet a lot of people that navigate in similar circles, but I had never met before.
1:37.6	So that was really nice.
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