Welcome to another episode of the Michelle Tafoya podcast.

Today we are going to speak with Yenam Cohen.

He is the consul general of Israel to the Midwest.

And we are very pro-Israel on this show.

But we're very open-minded as well.

I would be willing to talk to anybody on this show that is a decent person and has

something to say and points to back it up. And Yenam Kohen has just that. We're going to talk about

Palestine. We're going to talk about Hamas. We're going to talk about Israel. And most importantly,

we're going to talk about what gives him hope in the future.

And that is coming up with Eynum Cohen next.

It's time for the Michelle Tofoya podcast.

Ian M.

I'm Cohen, thank you so much for being here.

These are strange, difficult, painful times. I haven't spoken to you

since before October 7th, so let's just start there. And your first reaction to what happened

that day? You know, it is the most devastating day in the short 75-year-long history of the state of Israel.

We experienced the biggest terrorist attack in our history.

We're talking about at least 1,200 people that have been killed in Israel, the vast majority of them civilians.

But it's also the scope and the scale because they were murdered in the most barbaric way,

one can imagine, much worse than ISIS.

So this is where we're standing.

And since then, you know, we went on a war on this terrorist infrastructure of Hamas to restore stability and security in the region.

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