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Good day and welcome to the Friday, April the 11th, 2025 edition of Denison Forum's Daily Article

Podcast. I'm Chris Elkins, narrator. Today's daily article is written by our senior editor for theology,

Dr. Ryan Dennison. The latest World Happiness report was recently released, and Finland, Denmark, Iceland, and Sweden remain in the top four spots.

Their high ranking should not come as much of a surprise given that all four nations are generally considered solid places to live with relatively few threats to their way of life.

That is not the case, however, for one nation that few likely suspected would make the top 10.

Israel. Israel came in at number five in the 2023 report and has ranked toward the top of the list

for several years. Between then and now, the war with Hamas,

Hezbollah, the Houthis, and even Iran itself, has served as a constant reminder of all that

its people risk by simply choosing to live in Israel. It would be understandable if the happiness

and general well-being of the Israeli citizens

began to weaken in the face of such danger and death.

And its resilience in the face of these trials is relatively rare.

As Nathan Scheransky and Gil Troy describe, quote,

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