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Wartime Diaries: Gadi Ezra

Israel Story

Israel Story

Religion & Spirituality, Palestine, Jewish, Stories, Judaism, Israel

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

When war needs you in two very different capacities, how on earth do you decide what to do?


The end song is Ana Efneh ("Where Shall I Turn?") by Erez Lev Ari.



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0:00.0

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0:07.0

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0:15.0

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0:17.0

Soon it will feel more like free-wailing downhill.

0:20.0

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0:22.0

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0:25.0

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0:26.0

Search Zero with an X, because healthy business is beautiful business.

0:30.0

I'm in the sea in a mission with the Navy and I am functioning as my battalion eyes

0:42.0

who's currently maneuver in my which means to identify a terrorist and if we identify a terrorist then notify a drone or a jet that had to help these terrorists to reunite with God.

1:01.0

And by that protect our forces on the ground.

1:05.7

Because of Engel in which I was positioned towards the Gaza Strip, I had the best radio communication to my battalion and at some point I'm getting a phone

1:15.0

call on the ship and on the other side of the line there is someone from my battalion who's

1:21.3

in Israeli territory and he says that one of the fighters inside Gaza right now

1:25.8

his wife is delivering and you need to be the guy that notifies him that he has only 19 minutes to get to a certain point in Gaza.

1:34.3

There an armed vehicle will wait for him and will take him to his wife for the

1:38.7

delivery and I remember picking up the radio and getting my commander of my battalion was a good friend,

1:47.1

but he's still my commander, right? It's hierarchy. It doesn't matter that in my civilian lives a year ago.

1:53.4

I would be able to talk to the Prime Minister.

1:55.6

You're in the military, it's hierarchy.

1:57.4

And I'm picking up the phone and I was like,

2:00.6

this guy needs to get to his wife. We need to get him to this position right away.

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