Dan, from 1 to 10, how would you rate your gifting talent? Maybe a 7. You? The most stressful day of the year is my wife's birthday. But for the sake of Shlomba, let's just leave it at that. You have it easy, Alain, you're Israeli, so you don't have to face the stress of holiday gifting around Hanukkah. Right, right, because we just give out some Sufganiot and call it a day. Right? Eight days of gifts.

Well, this year, we just give out some Sufganiote and call it a day. Right? Eight days of gifts. Well, this year we're making Hanukkah gifting a whole lot easier by giving the gift of Inside Call Me Back to a friend or family member or colleague. You'll also be supporting what we do here at Arc Media. So follow the link in the show notes and gift a subscription to Inside Call Me Back.

And here's the kicker.

To those who gift eight subscriptions or more, Dan will send you a personalized copy of his

most recent book, The Genius of Israel.

Just let us know who you'd like him to dedicate it to.

When did we discuss this?

We just did, Dan.

Okay, then bring it.

Just follow the link right here in the show notes

and send your Hanukkah gift now.

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In the last decades, and especially in the last decade, we've been taken by a dangerous bacteria called Bibizis, because we are just obsessed with one person.

When you open your mouth in Israel, people are not interested if you are nice or not nice,

if you are tall or short, if you are blonde or brown, they are just interested if you are for

Bibi or against Bibi. We stop dealing with our health, with our education, without security.

We are torn in the most dramatic way over one person.

It's 10 p.m. on Wednesday, December 3rd here in New York City. It's 5 a.m. on Thursday, December 4th in Israel,

where Israelis are awaiting news as to whether one of the two remaining hostages was, in fact, returned.

Today, Wednesday, five IDF soldiers were wounded, including one seriously in an attack by Palestinian

operatives in Eastern Rafa, where dozens of Hamas terrorists are believed to be trapped in a tunnel

underground. In response to the violation of the ceasefire, the IDF struck a Hamas target in Rafa.

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