The Echoes of Israel’s Founding Fathers - with Yossi Klein Halevi

Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

Ark Media

Society, October 7, Hamas, War, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Israel, News Commentary, News, Politics, Elections, Palestine, Dan Senor, Government

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🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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We are joined by bestselling author and senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Yossi Klein Halevi, to discuss the debt we have to Israel’s founders, and to the soldiers who have fallen in its defense.

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0:00.0	Before we start, I want to tell you about today's sponsor. A few years ago, a young woman went
0:05.3	into Gaza with a unit from the Galani Brigade. Her job was to train them on how to use a
0:10.4	tourniquet in case they lost an arm in combat. That nightmare scenario became real. They came under fire,
0:18.2	suffered heavy casualties, and she emerged with severe PTSD.
0:23.6	She eventually admitted herself to a hospital, and it was there that she was introduced to
0:29.0	Buddy Line, a program run by American friends of Israel's Navy SEALs.
0:34.5	Buddy Line pairs Israeli Navy SEAL veterans with IDF combat veterans struggling with PTSD.
0:42.2	These pairs spend a year together rebuilding trust, confidence, and connection. Today, she's married,
0:48.8	and she tells us, thanks in part to this program, she's also thriving. If you're moved to help, please click the link
0:56.0	in our show notes. Your gift, Big or Small, can help someone find their way back. And now on to
1:01.7	today's episode. You are listening to an art media podcast.
1:22.1	What we prove to ourselves on October 8th was that we haven't lost the instincts of peoplehood, of national solidarity.
1:28.6	And when this war is over, Israeli society is going to be faced with a very stark choice,
1:37.2	October 6th or October 8th. Do we go back to the profound schisms of October 6th where Israelis were beginning to feel that we have nothing in common with each other? And that's the
1:41.9	beginning of the end when people start feeling that we don't
1:45.3	really belong to the same national project in any minimal way. Or is our model October 8th. Every
1:53.1	Israeli poll that I see points to the direction that there is a majority, even a strong majority,
1:59.7	that wants healing and not schism.
2:14.3	It's 9.30 a.m. on Thursday, May 1st here in New York City. It's 4.30 p.m. on Thursday, May 1st in Israel on Israel's Independence Day. As one of the largest fires in Israel's history blazes on the outskirts of Jerusalem, some 5,000 acres were burned, forcing the evacuation of whole towns and the closure of the road to Tel Aviv.
2:37.7	Channel 12, Israel's leading TV news channel announced mid-broadcast for the first time in its history
2:44.2	that it was evacuating its studio in Neville, which is just on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
2:51.5	The underlying cause of the fires was not immediately clear, but at least some of the fires
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