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Charlie Kirk Today | Yael Eckstein: October 29, 2025 | Charlie Kirk Today | October 29, 2025

Brought to you in part by the
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International fellowship of christians and jews.
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I am so excited about this next guest.
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Somebody that, not too long ago,
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We spent some a really amazing time
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Right here in, conference room.
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I could walk to it in about three seconds.
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And that is, of course, jill stein, ifc, dj, global
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President and ceo. that's
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The international fellowship of christians and jews.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Welcome to the charlie kirk show.
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Thank you so much, andrew.
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What a blessing to be here with you.
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Yeah.
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And it's the first time you've been on, obviously,
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Since the tragic news that we got that we,
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That charlie
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Had been taken from us and taken from this world.
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And when it happened, yeah.
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Well, i couldn't help but recall,
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As i just said, that time we spent in june.
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So just a couple months ago
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Together in the conference room here in phoenix
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And it was one of the most memorable,
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Meetings that i had ever had
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With charlie, as a matter of fact.
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And you're you were so sweet.
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And you you wanted to just engage in this idea.
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And charlie was was, riffing, and he had all these,
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Like, thoughts, and you were just like, i want it like,
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Let me get my note back, and i'd take this down.
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I was like, absolutely.
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So the floor is yours out, maybe just, you know, start
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There and reflect on,
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Your personal friendship with charlie
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And kind of what that meant and what you learned.
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And how you're thinking
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About these weeks since, he was taken from us.
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Wow. well, to
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See you there, andrew, in the studio
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Doing this podcast gives me so much hope for the future.
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And to see charlie as an empty chair is something
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That i think we'll all feel in our hearts forever.
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I'll never forget that day that we sat together
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With charlie.
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We had around a ten minute meeting scheduled
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And charlie came in.
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He was so busy, and i know that look,
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And i know that feeling.
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And i was like, okay, i'm here for as long as you have.
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Don't worry about anything.
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He said. what do you want to talk about?
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Yeah. i said, share your heart with me, charlie.
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You could tell me anything.
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Tell me the hard things.
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Tell me the hard things about israel.
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Tell me the hard things or tell me anything that you want.
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You could just share with me.
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And it was incredible how suddenly he transformed
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Into the most loving, passionate,
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Wise kind of leader i've ever seen in my life.
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And i've sat with a lot of world leaders,
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And what i saw in him was both
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This humble servant heart.
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Of course, being that i live in israel,
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I represent israel and jewish christian relations and where
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Jews and christians find that common bond spiritually.
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I saw a spirit that was alive and in love with israel,
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And he was someone who i think
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Held such truth in the sense of
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He was able to be critical of policies
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Of the israeli government without at all
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Being critical of israel as the spiritual homeland.
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He was able to both say, this is a just war.
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We have to get these hostages back.
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And when the hostages came back just a day before charlie's
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Birthday, i know you and me both,
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Andrew were like, thank you, charlie.
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We know you were praying for this.
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We know you had a part in this.
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But what i saw was he was able to recognize
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What israel's going through and the complexity within it.
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Recognizing good as good, bad as bad, and also recognizing
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You can have concerns and be critical of israel
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Without completely saying israel doesn't
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Have a right to exist, or that the jewish people
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Shouldn't have a homeland or any of the other things
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That so many people are saying today.
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Yael,
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I want to give you a compliment on this because, you know,
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I obviously had heard charlie in those kind of conversations
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Multiple times,
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And you just had such a sweet spirit and such a welcoming.
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And it was.
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And you could just feel that you were sincere,
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That you were like, please, i want to know exact
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What you really think.
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And i just see it.
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And yeah. and charlie just so blossomed know.
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And charlie just blossomed, blossomed in front of you
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And that and that's exactly like
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You could see just all of his, like,
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That loving nature, that kindness and that and
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And just
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That earnest desire to help because he was frustrated
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About some things and was frustrated
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About the messaging and all this stuff.
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It's all been very publicized, you know, at this point.
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But but like, you gave him a floor
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And to, to say all these things that he'd been keeping in
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It was thinking really deeply about for a long time.
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And i just loved when you got out your notepad,
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Your notepad, and you're like, can i
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Can i take notes like, yes.
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And he gave you like, like seven points or something.
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And i'm sitting there go like, wow, this is really like
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Detailed charlie,
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You know, and and you just started writing it
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And i just, i remember being so impressed by
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Just the warmth because,
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I mean, you could have got defensive or something,
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I don't know,
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But i mean, there's many options of how
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You could have reacted in that moment.
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But you were so loving and charlie,
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Charlie just walked away from
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That would be like, she's the best.
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She's the absolute best. oh yeah.
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Well, i remember that hug that he gave me
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After right before we parted, when we went over
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Those seven different points that he told me.
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And then, you know,
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We we spoke for an hour and a half
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And we were supposed to only have 5 or 10 minutes.
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And we got up and i was like, can i give you a hug?
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And he gave me a hug that i will feel forever.
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And he also gave me a cell phone number,
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And we would text each other shabbat shalom,
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And we would talk about how it's really this
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Spirit of love and hope and positivity
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That's going to change the world.
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And it's what i saw in charlie and everything he did, what
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Charlie did.
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He went to people that he
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Disagreed with, and he said, tell me your story.
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Let me try to understand you.
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I can disagree with you and i can love you.
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And what charlie stood for
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Was changing the world and making the world better.
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And he would always say
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What the international
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Fellowship of christians and jews is doing,
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Of feeding the hungry and clothing the naked,
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And helping both the jews and the christians in israel.
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We've built hospitals for the christian community
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In nazareth.
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We give food boxes for christians in the old city,
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The same we were feeding jewish holocaust survivors.
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We're helping persecuted christians in syria.
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We built them
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Clinics and health clinics and distributed food boxes.
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And charlie always said, like, the answer to
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Everything is love, especially when it comes
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Down to the holy land.
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So still on my desk i have i have three pieces of paper,
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That i have hanging up in front of my desk.
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One of them is those notes that i took, that you're
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Talking about, andrew, with the seven points
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That charlie says,
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Charlie kirk meeting in arizona was amazing
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Even before he was assassinated.
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I have a list of pastor, dietrich bonhoeffer quotes,
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Which i always want to hold in my heart.
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And i have a list of the five things that,
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King solomon prayed to god for when he became king.
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So, that meeting was like, what a list for me.
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Even before he was assassinated.
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In genesis
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12 three, god made a powerful promise
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To abraham, the father of the jewish people.
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I will bless those who bless you.
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The christian bible tells us
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That we have been grafted into god's family tree.
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The rich olive tree of israel,
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The very foundations of the christian faith,
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The bible and jesus, whom christians call
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The messiah, are deeply rooted in israel.
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Supporting israel aligns christians with god's
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Prophetic timeline.
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It demonstrates our willingness to be instruments of
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God's blessing, uplifting his chosen people,
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And it calls us to confront and heal
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The centuries old wounds of anti-semitism.
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The scripture says how good and how
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Pleasant it is when brethren dwell together.
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And i like to say that
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Charlie is a modern founding father
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Because he lived his life in such an exemplary way,
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In such a passionate way that you couldn't help but be.
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It was just it was contagious to be around him.
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You would feel his energy like that
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Motor was just never stop churning.
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And and he was always thinking creatively
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About how to get to the next solution.
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And get over this, this current problem or whatever.
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And one of those problems that we talked about
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Was the hostages.
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And i'll never forget, we prayed for the hostages
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To be released in our office here.
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And so, as you mentioned, october 13th,
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The day before, charlie would have turned 32.
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The hostages get released.
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And there's this massive, massive piece
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In the middle east summit.
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President trump flies there.
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There's this this huge moment in the knesset.
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And and i just thought,
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Gosh, i, i wish charlie could have seen this
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Because, like,
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We had been so desperate for this war to come to an end
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And, you know,
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Like and just hope that so many of these,
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These friction points,
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This tension points that we're all navigating,
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Like maybe they could just be finally put to rest.
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And the israel
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Could find peace and closure after october 7th.
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So i just, you know, i got to ask, what was that day
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Like for you?
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Because as you prayed about it with charlie, i could tell
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It was like first and foremost in your
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On your heart, in your mind, in
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That even just in june when we're meeting it
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And how much you were thinking about it.
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So then you were probably in israel when it happened.
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I can only imagine because you do travel back and forth.
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A lot.
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But i'm assuming you were there.
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Like, what was that moment like for you?
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What were you thinking about?
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What was it like on the ground?
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Wow. well, there's a bible verse that actually
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It came to me when, i was in labor
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With my second son, who's now almost 17.
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But between each contraction, i would say yeshua to me,
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I find redemption from the lord comes in the blink of an eye
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And i would have a contraction.
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It was so painful and i felt like i was going to die.
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And then suddenly
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It would come down and this too shall pass.
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Yeah, this too, this too shall pass.
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Exactly.
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And when i saw those hostages coming back into israel
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After two years of living
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Something none of us could ever imagine,
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I just kept saying, yeshua, i'm terrified.
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Redemption from the lord can come in the blink of an eye.
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I felt like i was watching andrew,
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Like the ezekiel prophecy of the dry bones
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Coming to life that they really.
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They were like dry bones
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Underground, coming and finding life again.
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And i was in the knesset.
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I was invited there when president trump spoke
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And i felt charlie kirk, i felt him there.
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And i kept thinking, honestly, if he was alive,
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He would be here.
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I hope he was alive. he would be.
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I totally felt that with you.
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Well, charlie probably would have been doing his show
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Because i would have told him, no, charlie, we need to get.
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This is too big of a news day. you got to do your show.
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But, yeah, i mean, listen, the.
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The the spirit of charlie kirk lives on.
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There's no doubt.
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And i don't mean that in some, like, hocus pocus way.
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I just mean we carry him with us.
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We carry him in our hearts and i know israel does, too.
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I mean, of all the countries that mourned,
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Charlie's passing, i mean,
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I mean, second to america, i think it must
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Have been israel because i saw so much going on.
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There's so many, so many vigils, so many mourners.
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But we are all carrying this with us.
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And i think the whole world was yael.
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Honestly,
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I think the whole world wanted to achieve some sort of peace.
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I think the whole world, and not just in israel,
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But like around the world, i think like charlie's,
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Charlie's legacy.
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He was so antiwar.
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Like, people don't fully appreciate
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How how deeply disturbed charlie was by any form of war.
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Like he just wanted peace.
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And, so that day, i totally i totally relate to you on that.
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And i, i'm with you 100%.
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I kept thinking about charlie.
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We said it in our group chats
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Like it's just like, man, i wish charlie could see this.
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He wanted to so badly, you know?
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Yeah, yeah.
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And what's incredible, andrew, is something that
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I didn't expect.
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You know, the fellowship, the international fellowship
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Of christians and jews ministry that i oversee.
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We've been working and supporting
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The families of the hostages for the past two years,
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Being there
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With them, telling them, christians around the world
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Love you and stand with you and support you.
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And i wish that the the survivors of this hell
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Would come out,
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And they would have lost all faith
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That we would have to rebuild it.
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And they came out with faith stronger than ever.
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One of the hostages
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Said, i went into the tunnels with a little bit of faith.
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I came out speaking to god is my best friend.
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My faith is stronger than ever.
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There was another hostage who said,
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The only thing that i had was a little prayer book.
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And i would say psalms on repeat every day.
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And another hostage said,
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I never kept the sabbath in my life,
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But in those tunnels
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I kept the sabbath
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And prayed out to god louder than ever before.
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And these were people who were starved, who were tortured,
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Who were chained.
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And they were told if they convert to islam
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And read from the koran, they'll get food.
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And they looked at their captors and said, no way.
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I'm standing with the god of israel.
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I'm not converting.
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And so to see them walk out of that
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Ha torture of two years with faith intact, it's
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Something that i believe, i believe there's a message
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For all of us there that justice went, as they say.
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Yeah, as they say, there's no atheists in the foxholes.
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So, i think that was a good example of it.
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We will be right back with jl next time.
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Don't go anywhere.
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Where are the tears from the pain.
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The life that she lived.
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She's a survivor of auschwitz.
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The years that they would just beat her ears.
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That she didn't have food and felt hungry.
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And our answer is love.
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Before, with a gift of only $25.
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You'll deliver a life
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Saving food box into the hands of an elderly jew in need.
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I wasn't only saying people have a heart.
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There are good people today.
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Call, scan or go online now.
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And the international
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Fellowship of christians
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And jews will rush your food box today saudi arabia.
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This is a holy moment.
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What you're doing is not simply being kind.
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You are prophetically stepping into the scriptures
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And being part of their redemption and our own.
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Please call, scan or go
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Please call, scan or go
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Back here with yael eckstein.
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She is.
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Let me get this right because it's an impressive title.
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She's the president and ceo of
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International fellowship of christians and jews.
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Global.
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So yeah.
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So i just how many kids do you have?
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You for kids. you're foreign.
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Wow. yes, i have three.
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So you beat me by one.
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And, i but they know i mean, i time i know, i know,
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But not according to my wife.
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There's but the, my poor wife.
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Yeah.
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I've been traveling a lot, especially,
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You know, in recent weeks.
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So, she's she's the real mvp, as kevin durant said.
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But, yeah.
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So do i hear this right?
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There's we only have like about a minute
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And a half in this quick little segment here. yeah.
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But she's she's joining the idf.
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Is this right. yeah.
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Yes. the daughter married moses is 19 years old.
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Yeah.
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And just like all the kids in israel when they turn 18,
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They join the idf.
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And it's something i've been thinking about for some time.
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My kids have been born.
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It's both such a privilege and blessing to be born
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In this generation where after 2000 years of exile,
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We have the land of israel that was prophesized,
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And jeremiah and ezekiel, and we're seeing
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All these prophecies come to life.
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And it's the biggest privilege
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To live in this land right now.
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And it's also a huge responsibility.
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And so every kid,
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When they turn 18 goes and protects these borders.
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And so as a mother, what i've realized, andrew, is
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The only thing we have in our hands.
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The only choice we have is are we going to pray or not.
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And so i'm trying
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Very hard to my goodness, i feel that to gosh, with my,
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You know, with my kids, you know, all of this is just
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Spun our lives into a totally different direction.
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And i have to help host the show and,
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You know, all the things that we do, we're moving and,
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You know, you prayer is powerful
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And it's comforting, and, but prayer is powerful.
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That's the main thing.
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And,
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Especially when we pray for our kids,
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I think, you know,
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That's something that god puts on our hearts as parents.
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And we need to be faithful to that
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And do it a lot and get on our knees and pray
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For the future of our kids
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And future of our country and peace.
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Because, what are we going to do if we don't have that?
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So, yael eckstein, president, ceo of ifc, jay global.
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So i want to so this is a remarkable stat
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That was just shared with me that since october 7th,
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The fellowship provided over $300 million in direct aid,
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As did i get a
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That i accidentally add an extra zero on there.
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Is that it?
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God is so much bigger than anything we imagine.
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Yes, we've distributed over $300 million of lifesaving
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Aid in israel to all communities in israel,
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To the jewish community,
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To the christian community, to the druze, to the bedouin,
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Even to the muslim community in israel,
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Of course, some 20% of israel's population are non-jews.
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And so we distribute aid according to need,
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Not according to religion or anything else.
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So so i mean, that's a huge accomplishment.
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And so congratulations to that.
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And what a blessing.
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But but i have a question because
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So now that we're in peace,
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Obviously you guys were so focused
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On the war effort and helping all the need
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That was arising out of this tumultuous situation.
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So now where is the focus of icj
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Going to be place, or is it still kind of
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Is there still more that we don't know
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About kind of going on with the
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In and around
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Gaza with the idf, like what's what's happening now?
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Well, we look at the scriptures and we're told to feed
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The hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the poor.
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That's what the fellowship has been doing for over 40 years.
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So we're going to continue to do that right now.
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In a way, during these times of quiet,
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Is our opportunity to be able
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To seed into the peace of jerusalem,
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See it into bringing food
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And hope to the holocaust survivors, going to the orphans
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And the children who have been affected,
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And bringing them food and clothing and telling them
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Christians and jews around the world stand with you,
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That in so many ways, andrew, now that war ends is
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When the real work begins to rebuild these communities.
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The fellowship just,
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Built kindergarten gardens on the border with gaza
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That were destroyed on october 7th,
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So the kids couldn't go back to school.
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And so we're here in israel planting those seeds
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We built a hospital in nazareth.
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And we'll continue to do everything to help the people.
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Yeah, sorry, i didn't mean to interrupt,
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Because i know you've probably got,
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Like, a bunch of projects you could rattle off, so.
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But with the kibbutz is. so there was a little.
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I mean, these things,
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These kibbutz has got totally devastated.
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All right.
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Where are they at in rebuilding, or have they,
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If they've been abandoned, are they getting rebuilt?
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Like what's what's the status with some of those communities?
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It still hasn't been rebuilt.
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But the people want to come back.
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And so they're putting care vans next to the kibbutz.
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They're putting anything that they could in order
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To go and move back and show this resilience,
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This hope, this their seeds that are blooming with hope for
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The future.
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And now that the war is over, we'll start
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To rebuild those kibbutzim.
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But there is so many, needs.
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There are trauma centers that there are wounded soldiers
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Who have generation of 18 year olds are missing limbs and
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But they're determined to go out and work.
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We actually we had one man, who he brought from the former
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Soviet union
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And aliya, the biblical prophecy
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Coming to fruition of the ingathering of the people.
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And he came from the biblical
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Land of the north with the fellowship to israel.
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And he ended up joining the idf as a lone soldier.
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He was injured by, terrorists that they threw, anti-tank
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Missile at his missile, at his tank, and he lost his leg.
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But he's now volunteering with the fellowship,
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Distributing food boxes to elderly.
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And he even learned how to ride a handicapped bike
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And is competing, on behalf of the state of israel
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In, in the competitions for handicapped.
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So we are seeing a resilience that,
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We, i couldn't even imagine for october 7th.
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And the fellowship is there
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Both to give hope and strength strengthen.
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That's awesome.
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That's
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I love those kinds of stories and the resilience of the
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Of the people of israel has been truly amazing.
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But so we prayed last time
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And i got one minute left, yael,
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For we have to say goodbye to our show today.
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But we prayed for the hostages to get released.
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So what is what?
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What should we be thinking about and praying about now?
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What is the next called out?
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Well, i pray for america every single day.
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I believe a strong america is a strong world and i pray
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For the peace of jerusalem, just as the scriptures tell us.
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And i believe that
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With the strong america and a strong and unified
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Israel will be able to see more countries
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Join the historic abraham accords.
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This is something that i believe
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Is blessed in the eyes of god. that's possible.
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And we have to believe that light always overcomes
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The darkness.
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We've seen darkness, and now it's time for light.
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Yeah.
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And if you guys want to get on
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Board with that, i totally agree.
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The abraham accords
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All this peace is,
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Is just exploding in a
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In a good way is probably the wrong choice of words.
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But throughout the region and we're we thank god for it.
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God jfk, ifc jorg.
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If you want to get involved with what
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Yale's doing ifc j.org.
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Thank you. yale. it's been such a pleasure. pleasure.
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Thank you so much. bless you.
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You're doing amazing, andrew with you. thank.
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We truly are living in a historic time.
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After 738 days, the 20 living israeli hostages
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Have been released from captivity
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And those who were killed will finally rest in peace near
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Their loved ones. praise god!
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In this time of celebration, our good friends
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At the international fellowship of christians and jews
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Send their deepest gratitude for your prayers
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And unwavering support.
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Thanks to you, the fellowship has provided
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$300 million in emergency aid since october 7th,
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Including millions in direct support for the hostages
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And their families.
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Of course, the road ahead is still a long one.
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Much needs to be done to restore
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And revive these victims of terrorism.
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But that's exactly what the fellowship does.
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For example,
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They're assisting returned hostages,
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Along with their families and friends, with immediate
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Medical, psychological and financial support.
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They're also providing
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Mental health care for israelis of all ages.
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To find out how you can help, visit ifc.org.
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That's ifc.org.
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Yael Eckstein: October 29, 2025 | Charlie Kirk Today

October 29, 2025 | 26:2

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