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Welcome to the inside edition of the Call Me Back podcast, where we pull back the curtain and have the conversations we typically have after the

cameras stop rolling. Thank you for subscribing to the show and supporting the Call Me Back

podcast and everything we do here at Arc Media. Today in the hot seat, joining us from Jerusalem to

address your questions and your personal dilemmas is Arc Media contributor Tal Becker. Tal,

welcome back to the inside. Hey, Dan, how you how you doing i'm good i think the last time we spoke you were in sydney and you come back to an israel

perhaps a mood shifting in israel as my sons would say what is the vibe yeah you know at the moment

i'm trying to look at my kids more than my phone or anybody else so that just to kind of avoid the vibe? Yeah, you know, at the moment I'm trying to look at my kids more than my phone

or anybody else, so that's just to kind of avoid the vibe. But I think there is this feeling

that of a little bit of an attrition in every location, not a clear path forward, not in Iran,

not in Lebanon, not in Gaza either. It's maybe making breathing for some people a little bit harder.

I think there were times when the kind of the path or the arc of this story to a happier

ending was a bit clearer. And now that it's murky, I think people are feeling the weight of that.

Okay. Well, I'm sure some of that sentiment will come through in our conversation

with our questions from our insiders. One editorial note, on last week's episode of Inside Coming

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