Heroes of October 7th and Beyond

I Will Fear No Evil | Heroes of October 7th and Beyond

March 13, 2026 | S1 E1 | 53:10

Erick Stakelbeck talks to heroes from the October 7 attacks on Israel and beyond.

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Heroes of October 7th and Beyond | I Will Fear No Evil | Heroes of October 7th and Beyond | March 13, 2026

He called me and he said:
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"wake up, open tv,
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"because israel is going down."
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I went down immediately to our military headquarters
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In tel aviv and declared war.
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In the face of that darkness, light emerged.
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Heroes rose up.
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I fell down from the car, shooting from all over.
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I knew that i have only 10 bullets.
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What can i do with that?
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This is my destiny to be here.
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If this is the price
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To see such a lot of people alive,
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It's okay.
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When we look back, there are certain days in history
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That don't just happen, they shake the world.
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They don't just make the news,
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They set a ripple effect into motion
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That shifts everything.
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October 7th, 2023 was one of those days.
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It was sukkot, the jewish feast of tabernacles.
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It was the sabbath, shabbat,
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A beautiful, sunny saturday morning here in israel.
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Kids were getting ready to go back to school.
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Families were wrapping up the holiday.
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Life was good.
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And then, in an instant, everything changed.
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What unfolded was pure, unadulterated evil.
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A massacre so brutal, so savage,
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That it sent a chill down the spine of the entire world.
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It wasn't just an attack.
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It was a turning point.
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A line was crossed that day, and nothing,
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Not for israel and not for the world,
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Would ever be the same again.
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At 6:29 a.m. on october 7th,
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Air raid sirens wailed
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Across southern and central israel,
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From tel aviv to jerusalem.
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For israelis, sadly, that sound had become
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All too familiar.
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These sirens were designed to save lives,
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A warning to race to shelter,
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Because rockets were coming from gaza yet again.
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Over the past two decades, hamas and other terror groups
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Had fired more than 20,000 rockets and mortars into israel,
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Launching deadly barrages
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That led to at least four mini-wars.
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The most intense of those conflicts
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Before october 7th came in may 2021,
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When over 4,000 rockets were fired at israel
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In just 11 days.
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But here's what you need to understand.
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Israel never struck first unless provoked.
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Never.
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They intercepted missiles
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With their iron dome defense system,
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They absorbed the hits,
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And they tried to contain
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Hamas through ceasefires and agreements.
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Defense, not offense. that was the israeli way.
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A nation forced to be on guard,
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Yet still choosing restraint,
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And all while facing relentless international pressure
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From the likes of the un.
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The people who bore the brunt of it all
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Were the families in israel's southern border communities,
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Places like sderot, nir oz, and kibbutz beeri.
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These were peaceful, pastoral towns
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Where kids rode bikes past golden fields
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And families gathered under the stars for shabbat.
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Life there, they would say,
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Was 90% heaven, 10% hell.
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But that 10% came fast, without warning.
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The sirens meant parents had just 15 seconds
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To scoop up their children and run for shelter.
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Playgrounds were built under reinforced concrete.
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Schoolyards had fortified corners.
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The trauma was constant.
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But so was the resilience.
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Because these weren't people who gave in to fear.
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They planted roots. they raised families.
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They built lives,
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All while living under the constant threat of hamas terror.
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And on october 7th, that fragile peace,
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That daily courage, was shattered.
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Allah akbar!
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Imagine waking up to thousands of heavily armed terrorists
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Pouring across your country's border in a single morning.
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Flooding into peaceful towns, farms, and homes
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With one single purpose -
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To hunt you down and kill you.
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I'm standing in a room that belonged to ofir shoshani,
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Just 20 years old.
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A daughter, sister,
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A young woman,
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With her whole life ahead of her.
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On the morning of october 7th,
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Hamas terrorists stormed her home here in kfar aza.
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She managed to call her family
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As the gunmen broke in.
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And she was then murdered inside this house.
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Kfar aza was one of the hardest hit
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Communities that day.
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More than 60 people were slaughtered here.
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Entire families wiped out in their homes.
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That was the scale of october 7th.
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More than 3,000 hamas terrorists,
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Joined by thousands of gazan civilians,
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Infiltrated israel's southern border.
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They ripped open the border in dozens of places,
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Using bulldozers to smash through the fence.
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And poured in on motorbikes, pickup trucks,
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And even paragliders.
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All while drones crippled israel's surveillance towers.
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At the very same time,
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Hamas launched thousands of rockets
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Into israeli cities and towns.
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Overwhelming defenses and sowing chaos
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As the ground assault began.
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The attackers fanned out into israeli communities,
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Homes, and army bases.
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And one of their deadliest assaults
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Was on the nova music festival.
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On the weekend of october 7th,
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In the open farmlands near kibbutz reim,
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Over 3,500 young people gathered for celebration
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Of music, peace, and unity.
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What began as a night of joy,
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Turned into a nightmare.
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No one, not the festival goers,
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Not the local communities, not even the idf,
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Was prepared for the sheer barbarity
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That hamas unleashed.
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But even in that darkness, heroes rose up.
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Civilians ran into the line of fire
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To rescue strangers.
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Ordinary israelis became warriors,
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Proving that courage isn't something you plan for,
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It's something you choose in the moment.
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One of those heroes was eran masas,
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A retired idf officer,
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Living nearly two hours away from the gaza border
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When he heard what was unfolding.
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But instead of watching from afar,
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He got in his car and drove straight into the fire.
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No orders, no hesitation,
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Just a man on a mission to save lives.
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Eran, thanks so much for joining us.
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Your story is so important,
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But let's back up.
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Before october 7th, 25-year army career,
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Married, four beautiful kids.
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Tell us about your life before october 7th.
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Well, i was, as you said, in the army.
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This is my career, this is my life.
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It was a good school for me to be a good man,
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And to get a lot of values to my life.
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But to be an officer in the army,
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This is your first thing that you do,
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And the last thing that you do at the day.
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Your family became the second thing.
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I decided that it's enough
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Because i need to give to my children a father
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That they deserved and they really needed.
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And i go to work in the municipality of the city i live
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Until october 7th.
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Take us back to october 7th.
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You wake up that morning, you get a call.
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How did you find out about what was happening,
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What was unfolding down south?
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I wake up at 6:00 o'clock,
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But i sat on the bed just thinking to myself,
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And then the phone rings.
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It was my brother, my big brother.
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He's not used to call me these days at all.
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But he called me and he said:
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"eran, wake up, open tv,
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"because israel is going down."
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So i ran to the tv and opened it,
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And the first picture that i saw
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Is the truck in sderot.
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The terrorists shoot everybody that was around.
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Inside of me something said,
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This is much more bigger than what we see.
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And in israel at that time,
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7 o'clock, something like that,
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We are not realizing truly what happened.
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Nobody knows.
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And it took me three minutes
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To decide that i'm going from kiryat ata
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Straight to those terrorists.
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It was like somebody sat on my shoulders,
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The good and the evil,
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And the good always win and told me:
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This is what you need to do.
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I took my uniform, dressed.
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I know that i have only a gun with 10 bullets,
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So what can i do with that?
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And i get down and start,
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Drove all the way,
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And i drove so fast, i never drove fast like that.
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When you got there,
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Where did you first arrive, and what did you see?
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Some guy that i know called me and he said:
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"where are you? i need your help.
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"there is a lot of young girls and boys
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"that run from the fields, a few of them wounded,
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"a few of them shot in the legs,
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"and they are very panicked."
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This was the nova music festival.
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That's right. i didn't know that at that time,
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And i thought that the terrorists that i saw on the tv,
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That's the only problem that we have.
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And this guy said: "leave it all
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"and come to patish village because i need your help."
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And then i get inside patish village,
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And then that was the first time
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That i saw guys and girls that ran away,
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Those children, shocked,
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And it was chaos.
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And this is the first time that i said,
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Okay, maybe this is my destiny to be here,
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And i need to do something.
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And i started yelling at everybody
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And grabbed them together
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And put them in a safe place,
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In a shelter, because they were all around
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In the grass and outside looking for some answers.
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And i started to talk to them like i know something.
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And i said: "okay, i'm here,
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"i'm from the army, everything will be all right.
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"i will protect you."
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They don't know i have only a gun with 10 bullets.
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Yeah... i will always remember how they looked at me.
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They just needed someone to tell them what to do
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And to calm down. -to lead.
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To lead, that's right.
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And at that moment,
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Some reporter that was around came with her camera
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Inside my face.
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And i told her that i don't know nothing.
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I just came here by accident.
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And she said: "trust me, you are the only one here,
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"and you are in charge.
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"just say something to the camera
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"to the people in israel.
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"nobody knew nothing."
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And i talked like a few minutes.
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I said, okay, anybody that need some help
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Or some question, please use my number.
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It's 052...
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Minutes after that,
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Some mother sent me a message,
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A voice message, and she said:
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"my son and his friend were in the party.
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"i'm begging you, go to that location
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"because they talked to me 10 minutes ago
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"and i know they are alive, but they climbed on a tree,
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"and they're on the high tree something like six hours,
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"bleeding to death.
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"but they said that they saw the terrorist around,
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"calling like they are the idf."
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And they were dressed in idf uniforms.
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Some of them. -some, some.
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Some of them, yes.
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They understood that if they go down,
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Those terrorists will kill them and keep them.
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And they said: "we will not get down
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"until someone will call our names."
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Immediately, i left patish, to the car,
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And started to drive in the road
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That gets straight to the party.
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I saw bodies on the road.
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I was focused on those guys
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To bring them to their mothers.
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I go and start yelling their names.
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Every time i'm telling that story,
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My emotion is like...
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They run over and they hug me so strong.
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They were full of blood.
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I remember that my uniform was full of blood
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Because they were hit
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And the first thing i've done
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Is take the phone,
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Dial to their mothers,
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And give them to hear their voices.
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This is a moment
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That makes me be a better father.
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To tell a mother that her son is okay, you know,
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And he's alive,
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In the hours that she didn't know nothing about it.
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You saved their lives.
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For them, it's their life.
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For me, it's something that i have to do.
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It's your mission. -you know, after i took them
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To a safe place, and they told me
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What's happening inside the nova party,
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It was not a question for me.
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I just put them and make u-turn
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And go back there.
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It does seem like your 25 years in the idf
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Prepared you for this moment,
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For that day. -wow.
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Nothing prepares you to go through a day like that.
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Nothing.
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But that's the part that gave me a lot of hope
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At that day because i saved people.
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And the other part, the second part of the story,
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Is the moment that i lost hope.
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I call it now that someone gave me a ticket
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To get inside to hell,
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And i visited hell.
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For a moment, i believe that i lost my mind in a way
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Because what those evil people done to our children...
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Is something that people cannot understand.
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And your mind cannot understand it.
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I didn't tell that because for me it's not important,
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But in my way, the second time,
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I killed three terrorists
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That were supposed to kill me.
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And i want you to remember that with 10 bullets,
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I left with only one bullet at the end of the day.
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I was attempted to use...
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I was attempted to use these bullets for me
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Because
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When i realized what i saw,
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I knew that i'm not going to be the same guy.
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And...
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And maybe
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I don't want to stay alive in a world like that,
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That human beings
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Act and do things like what i saw.
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They made an ambush for those who tried to escape.
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It was like the terrorists go car by car
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And make sure nobody will stay alive.
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I remember that i saw a very small, tiny car.
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It's supposed to take something like
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Four people normally.
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There was something like ten people
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Inside of it, smashed together
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Because they wanted to run away.
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The terrorists that killed them
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Made sure that every one of them
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Will get shot in his head.
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Even the guy that i remember
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That was smashed at the bottom of the car.
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And i keep moving,
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And i smell something weird.
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I go over there,
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And it was like a circle in the field that burned.
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So i get closer and closer,
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And then i realize that what my eye saw
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Is seven dead bodies of young boys and girls.
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How do i know that they were alive
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When they burned them?
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Because one of those bodies
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Was in a shape like he is calling,
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His hand was raised, like calling for help,
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And his mouth was open like he's screaming for help.
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I sat on the floor,
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And for a moment i believed that i'm truly losing my mind
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Because it can't happen.
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I saw those pictures when i was young
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In the holocaust movies,
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And that's the moment that i decided
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To take all those bodies that were all around
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And bring them to a safe place
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To give them the last dignity that they deserve.
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And i remember them all.
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I remember the faces. i remember...
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I'm going to say something very difficult right now,
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How i took
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Head that those terrorists cut off from one guy,
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And i was trying to match that head to the body
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Because it was like four bodies without heads,
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And i tried to match the head to the body.
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First body that i
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Became to pick,
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The first one,
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I'll remember her for the rest of my life,
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That's for sure,
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Because when i got close to her,
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She was all naked.
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I guess she was 27 years old,
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Something like that.
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That's the moment that broke me,
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More than everything that i saw over there.
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The moment that i thought about her father or mother,
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They sent her to go and party, smiling, happy.
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Maybe she said: "trust me, nothing will happen.
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"i'm safe."
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And i imagine
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On myself
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What would i feel
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If i would find my girl in a situation like that,
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Naked, murdered.
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Sorry.
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You're doing great, eran.
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I can't even imagine how difficult it is
00:23:12.005 --> 00:23:14.308
For you to even... -it is, but i say
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That the purpose is much more bigger
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Than what we talk about now. it's much more bigger than that.
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You know, i live that day like every day.
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I wake up in the morning, if i go to sleep,
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With all those footages in my head,
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All those sounds,
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And the smell, everything is inside of me.
00:23:36.396 --> 00:23:39.633
Like, you can see me now as a regular guy,
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I smile, talk,
00:23:42.903 --> 00:23:44.304
But there is another eran inside of me.
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I truly believed that i'm going to get suicide.
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What stopped you?
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I was truly afraid that people
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Will not say the truth about what happenned.
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And i said, if you will not stay here
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And fight for the truth,
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The history will not be the same.
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Nobody can argue with me,
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Not because i'm smart,
00:24:20.741 --> 00:24:24.144
Because i have a proof.
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I know that people like me and you
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And others that tell the true story
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Can make the world better to my children.
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So in a way, i protect my children
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In that way, without weapon.
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My weapon is my evidence
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And the story that i'm telling.
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Eran, thank you for sharing with us.
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I know how difficult it is.
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What you shared was powerful,
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And the world needs to hear it,
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And the world is hearing it
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And will hear it.
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We appreciate it. god bless you.
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Thank you very much. -thank you.
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Appreciate it.
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What eran did that day with no orders, no hesitation,
00:25:23.704 --> 00:25:27.641
Is nothing short of remarkable.
00:25:27.641 --> 00:25:29.876
His courage, quick action, and unwavering resolve
00:25:29.876 --> 00:25:33.547
In the face of unimaginable danger and evil
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Exemplify the spirit of resilience and heroism
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That defines the israeli people.
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Yet on that fateful morning at the nova festival,
00:25:42.856 --> 00:25:45.659
378 innocent young people were slaughtered,
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44 taken hostage,
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And hundreds left scarred and traumatized
00:25:51.999 --> 00:25:55.068
By what was israel's deadliest civilian massacre ever.
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Up next, you'll meet another hero
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Whose courage seemed endless,
00:26:01.375 --> 00:26:03.410
A 72-year-old resident of kibbutz magen
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Who risked everything, died twice,
00:26:06.813 --> 00:26:10.150
And came back to share the story
00:26:10.150 --> 00:26:12.486
Of how he saved his community.
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Stay with us.
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Let's talk about the gaza envelope,
00:26:29.903 --> 00:26:33.006
Those frontline israeli communities
00:26:33.006 --> 00:26:35.275
That live just minutes from the terror stronghold
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Known as gaza.
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We're talking about dozens of small towns and kibbutzim.
00:26:40.614 --> 00:26:44.885
Altogether, some 70,000 israelis
00:26:44.885 --> 00:26:47.654
Lived in this stretch of land before october 7th.
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About 25 communities dot this region.
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These are salt-of-the-earth people,
00:26:54.828 --> 00:26:57.364
Building lives on the very edge of constant danger.
00:26:57.364 --> 00:27:02.302
Israel had maintained a presence in gaza since 1967,
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But back in 2005,
00:27:07.240 --> 00:27:09.409
Israel unilaterally withdrew from the strip,
00:27:09.409 --> 00:27:13.413
Dismantling 21 jewish settlements
00:27:13.413 --> 00:27:16.083
And relocating 8,000 israelis
00:27:16.083 --> 00:27:18.885
From an area called gush katif.
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Israel's leadership at the time
00:27:22.189 --> 00:27:24.024
Hoped this would be the start of a better chapter,
00:27:24.024 --> 00:27:27.694
A step toward peace.
00:27:27.694 --> 00:27:29.362
But despite all that goodwill in 2006,
00:27:30.197 --> 00:27:34.201
The people in gaza elected hamas,
00:27:34.201 --> 00:27:37.337
A terrorist organization openly committed
00:27:37.337 --> 00:27:40.707
To israel's destruction.
00:27:40.707 --> 00:27:42.642
Year after year, the rockets kept coming.
00:27:43.443 --> 00:27:47.581
Thousands of them.
00:27:47.581 --> 00:27:49.216
Red alert after red alert.
00:27:49.216 --> 00:27:53.053
Now, because of the threat,
00:27:53.653 --> 00:27:55.489
Each kibbutz formed a civilian defense team,
00:27:55.489 --> 00:27:59.192
A "kitat konenut",
00:27:59.192 --> 00:28:01.128
A rapid response squad made up of local volunteers.
00:28:01.128 --> 00:28:05.398
These weren't elite commandos.
00:28:05.398 --> 00:28:07.901
These were dads and moms with day jobs,
00:28:07.901 --> 00:28:10.971
Armed with little more than an old m-16
00:28:10.971 --> 00:28:14.574
And the courage to stand between their families and terror.
00:28:14.574 --> 00:28:19.179
They trained, they stayed alert,
00:28:19.179 --> 00:28:22.149
And on october 7th, they became the front line.
00:28:22.149 --> 00:28:27.554
That morning, hamas launched a barbaric assault,
00:28:28.555 --> 00:28:32.392
And those kibbutzim, they were the first hit.
00:28:32.392 --> 00:28:36.163
Beeri, over 130 residents murdered.
00:28:36.163 --> 00:28:40.066
Nir oz, half the community slaughtered or kidnapped.
00:28:40.066 --> 00:28:44.171
Kfar aza, entire families wiped out.
00:28:44.171 --> 00:28:47.808
Reim, nirim, alumim,
00:28:47.808 --> 00:28:50.944
All came under attack.
00:28:50.944 --> 00:28:53.280
We're talking about terrorists going door to door,
00:28:53.280 --> 00:28:56.716
Burning, raping, torturing.
00:28:56.716 --> 00:28:59.286
The numbers are staggering.
00:28:59.286 --> 00:29:01.421
Over 1,200 israelis murdered.
00:29:01.421 --> 00:29:04.357
More than 250 taken hostage.
00:29:04.357 --> 00:29:07.260
Babies, grandparents, young women.
00:29:07.260 --> 00:29:10.764
The evil that poured out of gaza that day
00:29:10.764 --> 00:29:13.767
Was demonic.
00:29:13.767 --> 00:29:15.569
And yet, in the face of that darkness, light emerged.
00:29:15.569 --> 00:29:20.006
Heroes rose up.
00:29:20.006 --> 00:29:21.808
In every kibbutz, brave men and women
00:29:21.808 --> 00:29:24.678
Grabbed their rifles and fought
00:29:24.678 --> 00:29:26.613
To protect their neighbors.
00:29:26.613 --> 00:29:28.481
Some gave their lives doing it.
00:29:28.481 --> 00:29:30.517
Some held out for hours without backup.
00:29:30.517 --> 00:29:34.020
Some saved entire communities from destruction.
00:29:34.020 --> 00:29:37.991
Which brings us to kibbutz magen.
00:29:37.991 --> 00:29:40.827
Its very name means shield.
00:29:40.827 --> 00:29:46.166
While so many other places were overrun,
00:29:47.033 --> 00:29:50.337
Magen held the line.
00:29:50.337 --> 00:29:52.706
Why? meet baruch cohen.
00:29:52.706 --> 00:29:55.642
Baruch doesn't call himself a hero,
00:29:55.642 --> 00:29:58.645
But everyone else does.
00:29:58.645 --> 00:30:00.847
And after hearing his story, you will too.
00:30:00.847 --> 00:30:05.752
Baruch, it is an honor to have you with us.
00:30:06.653 --> 00:30:09.289
You've lived at kibbutz magen
00:30:09.289 --> 00:30:10.891
For over 50 years.
00:30:10.891 --> 00:30:12.492
How was life in kibbutz magen
00:30:13.126 --> 00:30:16.596
Before october 7th?
00:30:16.596 --> 00:30:19.366
First of all, i'm a local patriot.
00:30:20.133 --> 00:30:23.603
And kibbutz magen is the most beautiful place for me.
00:30:23.603 --> 00:30:28.675
And you feel strength in such a place
00:30:29.476 --> 00:30:32.712
Where everyone is a part of you,
00:30:32.712 --> 00:30:35.015
And you belong to this community.
00:30:35.015 --> 00:30:37.550
And how far is the kibbutz from gaza?
00:30:37.550 --> 00:30:39.586
Two miles. -just two miles.
00:30:39.586 --> 00:30:41.488
There is a hill in the kibbutz.
00:30:41.488 --> 00:30:43.323
From my hill, i can see nir oz,
00:30:43.323 --> 00:30:46.092
I can see nirim, ein hashlosha,
00:30:46.092 --> 00:30:48.428
All the kibbutzes. -all the kibbutzes, yeah.
00:30:48.428 --> 00:30:49.963
And i can see far away khan yunis.
00:30:49.963 --> 00:30:52.966
I can see the border from my hill.
00:30:52.966 --> 00:30:55.535
You were in charge of civilian security
00:30:55.535 --> 00:30:58.405
For the kibbutz. -yeah.
00:30:58.405 --> 00:30:59.773
Tell us a bit about that, how you prepared for crises
00:30:59.773 --> 00:31:03.343
And rapid responses.
00:31:03.343 --> 00:31:05.412
From the day that i began,
00:31:05.412 --> 00:31:06.813
It was 22 or 23 years ago,
00:31:06.813 --> 00:31:10.450
I decided to build a good group.
00:31:10.450 --> 00:31:13.053
A good group, you build it not in one day.
00:31:13.053 --> 00:31:16.189
You take normal people that were in the army,
00:31:16.189 --> 00:31:21.061
And you train them, and you give them exercise,
00:31:21.061 --> 00:31:24.397
And you teach them,
00:31:24.397 --> 00:31:25.532
And you give them
00:31:25.532 --> 00:31:26.800
All those things that they need
00:31:26.800 --> 00:31:28.535
If they shall need it in emergency time.
00:31:28.535 --> 00:31:31.504
And how did your time,
00:31:31.504 --> 00:31:32.405
You had a distinguished career
00:31:32.405 --> 00:31:33.807
In the idf as a paratrooper.
00:31:33.807 --> 00:31:36.009
You fought in the yom kippur war,
00:31:36.009 --> 00:31:37.444
Some other engagements as well. -yeah.
00:31:37.444 --> 00:31:40.280
How did your experience in the idf
00:31:40.280 --> 00:31:42.716
Affect the way you ran civilian security
00:31:42.716 --> 00:31:46.019
At the kibbutz? did it influence it?
00:31:46.019 --> 00:31:47.988
Okay, this group belongs to the kibbutz,
00:31:47.988 --> 00:31:51.624
But everything that i did, i did with the idf.
00:31:51.624 --> 00:31:55.261
The idf is a part of it.
00:31:55.261 --> 00:31:57.163
They give us ammunition, trained us,
00:31:57.163 --> 00:31:59.499
They give us everything.
00:31:59.499 --> 00:32:00.834
My group knew that i should call them
00:32:00.834 --> 00:32:03.370
Just if it's emergency time.
00:32:03.370 --> 00:32:05.972
So in the minute that i called them
00:32:05.972 --> 00:32:08.041
On the 7th of october at 6:30 in the morning,
00:32:08.041 --> 00:32:12.178
And i told them: "10 of you, i want you
00:32:12.178 --> 00:32:14.481
"to be ready with your suit,
00:32:14.481 --> 00:32:16.282
"with your armor and everything,"
00:32:16.282 --> 00:32:18.184
And i don't know for what.
00:32:18.184 --> 00:32:19.652
It was the first time that i called them
00:32:19.652 --> 00:32:21.888
For emergency time.
00:32:21.888 --> 00:32:23.323
Now, when you called them, did you know that the
00:32:23.323 --> 00:32:25.692
Invasion had begun?
00:32:25.692 --> 00:32:27.727
At 6:30 in the morning, you heard such a lot of bombs,
00:32:27.727 --> 00:32:32.365
Such a lot of missiles and everything.
00:32:32.365 --> 00:32:36.302
You have to ask yourself, why?
00:32:36.302 --> 00:32:40.040
So the only thing that you can think about,
00:32:40.974 --> 00:32:43.576
It's maybe we killed sinwar.
00:32:43.576 --> 00:32:46.980
But if they are going to kill sinwar,
00:32:46.980 --> 00:32:49.783
I could know it before. -the idf would tell you.
00:32:49.783 --> 00:32:52.419
Something's supposed to happen.
00:32:52.419 --> 00:32:54.120
And no one told me.
00:32:54.120 --> 00:32:56.156
And you have to understand another thing.
00:32:57.023 --> 00:32:59.125
Ten years before,
00:32:59.125 --> 00:33:01.027
We got a message that there are a few ways
00:33:01.027 --> 00:33:04.030
That our enemy can attack us.
00:33:04.030 --> 00:33:06.566
And the worst one was that one day
00:33:06.566 --> 00:33:09.502
There will be a lot of bombs.
00:33:09.502 --> 00:33:12.672
There will be an attack of three or four
00:33:12.672 --> 00:33:15.508
Posts of the army.
00:33:15.508 --> 00:33:17.777
During the time that the army is running
00:33:17.777 --> 00:33:20.947
To those posts to help them,
00:33:20.947 --> 00:33:23.016
They shall make a bypass and they shall enter
00:33:23.016 --> 00:33:25.552
To one of the kibbutzim with about 50, 70 terrorists.
00:33:25.552 --> 00:33:30.723
And they shall send four motorcycles to ofakim,
00:33:30.723 --> 00:33:35.095
It's a city behind us, to be exploded.
00:33:35.095 --> 00:33:39.265
Ten years before, i knew it.
00:33:39.933 --> 00:33:42.469
And at 6:30 in the morning,
00:33:43.069 --> 00:33:45.472
The only thing that could come to mind,
00:33:45.472 --> 00:33:48.508
It was that it's happened.
00:33:48.508 --> 00:33:51.010
And i enter to my car and i climb up to the hill.
00:33:51.010 --> 00:33:55.014
If you're an officer in the army,
00:33:55.014 --> 00:33:56.816
You know that you need a picture,
00:33:56.816 --> 00:33:58.952
What's going on.
00:33:58.952 --> 00:34:00.420
And from my place, i saw such a lot of bombs
00:34:00.420 --> 00:34:03.123
And rockets and everything, and nothing was moving.
00:34:03.123 --> 00:34:06.759
After five minutes,
00:34:06.759 --> 00:34:08.094
I got a phone call from a friend of mine,
00:34:08.094 --> 00:34:11.164
And he told me, just now two motorcycles passed
00:34:11.164 --> 00:34:15.101
And they killed my guard man.
00:34:15.101 --> 00:34:17.871
So that's make me another click.
00:34:18.571 --> 00:34:21.074
Okay, motorcycles, two motorcycles,
00:34:21.808 --> 00:34:24.244
It's not normal in our area.
00:34:24.244 --> 00:34:26.179
So i decide to go and to check what's going on.
00:34:26.179 --> 00:34:29.949
And i found a car staying on the road.
00:34:30.750 --> 00:34:34.254
The driver, a woman with a bullet on her head,
00:34:35.221 --> 00:34:38.825
Her husband, a bedouin, put his hands to the east,
00:34:38.825 --> 00:34:44.330
To ofakim, and he said: "they just passed now,
00:34:44.330 --> 00:34:47.333
"they just passed now, two motorcycles.
00:34:47.333 --> 00:34:50.436
You can see about a mile in front of you,
00:34:50.436 --> 00:34:54.874
Straight ahead.
00:34:54.874 --> 00:34:56.342
And i saw one of the motorcycles
00:34:56.342 --> 00:34:59.112
And i decide to run over him.
00:34:59.112 --> 00:35:01.347
About two miles later,
00:35:01.848 --> 00:35:04.050
I arrived just behind him and i take my pistol
00:35:04.050 --> 00:35:09.956
And i shoot him, three bullets.
00:35:09.956 --> 00:35:13.993
And in that minute i fell,
00:35:13.993 --> 00:35:16.162
I feel that my heart fell down
00:35:16.162 --> 00:35:18.331
Because it's maybe that in this minute
00:35:19.165 --> 00:35:22.535
You shoot a killer
00:35:22.535 --> 00:35:25.038
And who are you that you judge him
00:35:25.038 --> 00:35:27.240
And you kill him just like that?
00:35:27.240 --> 00:35:29.776
But as he fell down and i saw his kalashnikov ak-47,
00:35:29.776 --> 00:35:35.682
I understand that it's another story.
00:35:35.682 --> 00:35:38.785
And i make a u-turn and i call
00:35:38.785 --> 00:35:42.822
All the other group of mine to be ready.
00:35:42.822 --> 00:35:46.359
I got 26 members in this group.
00:35:47.026 --> 00:35:50.196
As i arrived to the kibbutz,
00:35:50.196 --> 00:35:52.298
All of them were ready.
00:35:52.298 --> 00:35:53.666
Now, when you're going to defense a place,
00:35:54.567 --> 00:35:58.538
There are a lot of ways to defense a place,
00:35:58.538 --> 00:36:01.407
To put in the gates, all around.
00:36:01.407 --> 00:36:03.910
And i told all of them to be on the west side
00:36:04.844 --> 00:36:08.681
Of the kibbutz.
00:36:08.681 --> 00:36:10.116
It means in front of the gaza strip.
00:36:10.116 --> 00:36:12.986
And i climb again to the hill
00:36:12.986 --> 00:36:15.822
To take a look.
00:36:15.822 --> 00:36:17.223
As i arrived to the top and i began to go down,
00:36:17.223 --> 00:36:21.094
I saw in front of me, on our fence,
00:36:21.094 --> 00:36:25.498
About 200 meters from my place three toyota cars,
00:36:25.498 --> 00:36:32.238
Four motorcycles, and about 50 terrorists.
00:36:32.238 --> 00:36:36.209
They tried to enter to the kibbutz.
00:36:36.209 --> 00:36:38.478
They didn't see me.
00:36:38.478 --> 00:36:40.079
Now, i can shoot them from those 200 meters,
00:36:40.079 --> 00:36:43.983
But it should not do anything
00:36:43.983 --> 00:36:45.618
Because it's too far.
00:36:45.618 --> 00:36:47.420
Then they can see me and they can shoot me. -yeah.
00:36:47.420 --> 00:36:50.590
I did what i was learned and teached in the army.
00:36:50.590 --> 00:36:55.528
When you see your enemy, run over him.
00:36:55.528 --> 00:36:58.831
Don't stop.
00:36:58.831 --> 00:37:00.466
So i take my gun through the window
00:37:00.466 --> 00:37:03.636
Down the hill, shooting all over the way.
00:37:03.636 --> 00:37:06.639
During this time, all my members were shooting.
00:37:06.639 --> 00:37:09.876
And then i arrived about 20, 30 meters from them,
00:37:09.876 --> 00:37:14.013
And i couldn't arrive till them.
00:37:14.013 --> 00:37:16.316
So i have to take to the left,
00:37:16.316 --> 00:37:19.152
To take a good position against them.
00:37:19.152 --> 00:37:21.521
And as i turn to the left,
00:37:21.521 --> 00:37:23.990
I got an rpg missile that was shooting to me
00:37:23.990 --> 00:37:29.896
To the back of my car.
00:37:29.896 --> 00:37:31.631
So you were hit with this rocket-propelled grenade.
00:37:31.631 --> 00:37:34.167
There was a lot of shooting,
00:37:34.167 --> 00:37:35.702
A lot of shooting all around.
00:37:35.702 --> 00:37:37.637
The car continued to drive,
00:37:37.637 --> 00:37:39.806
But i have no any condition, nothing to do.
00:37:39.806 --> 00:37:43.710
And i didn't understand why,
00:37:43.710 --> 00:37:45.311
And i looked down, and i saw that my ankle,
00:37:45.311 --> 00:37:48.247
My (knee) cap, was cut with my shoe.
00:37:48.247 --> 00:37:52.085
And i fell down from the car,
00:37:52.085 --> 00:37:54.721
Shooting from all over.
00:37:54.721 --> 00:37:56.522
From one side, my group,
00:37:56.522 --> 00:37:58.324
And from the other side, the terrorists shooting.
00:37:58.324 --> 00:38:01.327
I couldn't fight, but i am a medic.
00:38:01.327 --> 00:38:04.697
That's one of my professions.
00:38:04.697 --> 00:38:06.966
And from that minute, i began to help my friend.
00:38:06.966 --> 00:38:10.870
And i ask him: "avi," that was his name,
00:38:10.870 --> 00:38:13.840
"what happened?" and he said:
00:38:14.474 --> 00:38:15.575
"i got a bullet in my back."
00:38:15.575 --> 00:38:17.877
And i ask him: "can you move a little bit?
00:38:17.877 --> 00:38:20.847
"just, i want to see."
00:38:20.847 --> 00:38:22.715
So he moved, i pushed up his shirt,
00:38:22.715 --> 00:38:25.651
And i saw the hole of the bullet.
00:38:25.651 --> 00:38:28.221
And that minute, i understand
00:38:28.221 --> 00:38:29.956
That he got maybe five minutes or an hour to live.
00:38:29.956 --> 00:38:34.093
Because the bullet is inside,
00:38:34.093 --> 00:38:36.028
And the bleeding is inside his stomach.
00:38:36.028 --> 00:38:39.632
In an hour, in a hospital,
00:38:39.632 --> 00:38:41.401
He can be alive.
00:38:41.401 --> 00:38:43.903
So from that minute, i try to keep him awake
00:38:43.903 --> 00:38:48.040
And speak with him about his family,
00:38:48.040 --> 00:38:51.844
Try to shout at him and give him a punch.
00:38:51.844 --> 00:38:56.249
20 minutes later, one of my group come,
00:38:56.249 --> 00:38:59.619
And he's a medic, and he put
00:38:59.619 --> 00:39:02.755
An intravenous infusion to my friend.
00:39:02.755 --> 00:39:07.226
I am pushing the bottle like that,
00:39:07.226 --> 00:39:09.996
And he put a bandage over my leg.
00:39:09.996 --> 00:39:13.966
And i didn't understand why he put it so high.
00:39:14.867 --> 00:39:17.804
I knew about my ankle, but not so high.
00:39:17.804 --> 00:39:23.910
A few months later, when i met him,
00:39:23.910 --> 00:39:25.611
I asked him why he put it so high.
00:39:25.611 --> 00:39:28.981
And he said: "down onf your leg,
00:39:28.981 --> 00:39:32.351
"there was another three bullets"
00:39:32.351 --> 00:39:34.620
And i didn't feel it
00:39:34.620 --> 00:39:35.855
When i was laying down on the ground,
00:39:35.855 --> 00:39:38.658
Adrenaline and everything, "you didn't feel it."
00:39:38.658 --> 00:39:42.128
During this time that we are laying down on the ground,
00:39:43.229 --> 00:39:46.332
The woman called our daughter.
00:39:46.332 --> 00:39:48.734
She's a doctor, and told her:
00:39:48.734 --> 00:39:50.069
"look, there is a wounded, come to help him."
00:39:50.069 --> 00:39:54.440
In the chopper, avi was up on his bed.
00:39:55.274 --> 00:39:59.078
Then they put me behind him.
00:39:59.078 --> 00:40:01.314
I was holding the infusion like that.
00:40:01.314 --> 00:40:05.117
I saw that the medic is working on him,
00:40:05.117 --> 00:40:08.187
And i understand that he's going.
00:40:08.855 --> 00:40:12.091
And i shout to him, beat him,
00:40:12.758 --> 00:40:15.361
And nothing helped me.
00:40:15.361 --> 00:40:16.629
And he died after five minutes.
00:40:16.629 --> 00:40:19.832
As he died, i understand that i have no job.
00:40:19.832 --> 00:40:23.736
And i close my eyes,
00:40:24.203 --> 00:40:26.506
And later they told me that i died in the chopper.
00:40:26.506 --> 00:40:30.209
They make me a cpr
00:40:30.643 --> 00:40:32.345
And we land in jerusalem
00:40:32.845 --> 00:40:35.815
And in the hospital, i died the second time.
00:40:35.815 --> 00:40:42.588
And i wake up a week later
00:40:43.222 --> 00:40:47.226
In emergency room in hospital.
00:40:47.226 --> 00:40:50.596
So you were in a coma for a week?
00:40:50.596 --> 00:40:52.198
In a trauma, yeah.
00:40:52.198 --> 00:40:53.833
Now, that's my story, but it's a small part.
00:40:53.833 --> 00:40:58.638
Because from the minute that we began to shoot,
00:40:58.638 --> 00:41:02.675
About eight and a half hours,
00:41:02.675 --> 00:41:04.810
We stay alone without any help.
00:41:04.810 --> 00:41:09.015
Not the army, not the police,
00:41:09.015 --> 00:41:11.017
No special units, nothing.
00:41:11.017 --> 00:41:12.785
Alone against those terrorists.
00:41:12.785 --> 00:41:15.788
You mean against, look, 50 hamas terrorists?
00:41:15.788 --> 00:41:19.025
Yeah. -well-armed, well-trained?
00:41:19.025 --> 00:41:20.726
Everything, and they didn't, and they couldn't enter inside.
00:41:20.726 --> 00:41:25.031
But they tried for over eight hours.
00:41:25.031 --> 00:41:26.465
And they try, and they try,
00:41:26.465 --> 00:41:28.401
And they try.
00:41:28.401 --> 00:41:29.569
My son, which was staying on the hill,
00:41:29.569 --> 00:41:31.504
On the place,
00:41:31.504 --> 00:41:33.205
He told me later that he saw
00:41:33.205 --> 00:41:35.508
That they come and bring more and more.
00:41:35.508 --> 00:41:38.311
Long day. -i would say so.
00:41:38.311 --> 00:41:41.013
And what a story of heroism
00:41:41.013 --> 00:41:43.683
For over eight hours to hold off these hamas terrorists,
00:41:43.683 --> 00:41:46.319
And they were never able to enter the kibbutz.
00:41:46.319 --> 00:41:48.788
How many did you lose in kibbutz magen?
00:41:48.788 --> 00:41:51.457
In magen, we had two wounded and two died.
00:41:51.457 --> 00:41:54.594
Tell us about your recovery,
00:41:55.261 --> 00:41:57.530
How it's been for you mentally, physically,
00:41:57.530 --> 00:42:00.933
Obviously a very big adjustment.
00:42:00.933 --> 00:42:03.769
As you wake up and you see that you don't have a leg,
00:42:03.769 --> 00:42:07.006
You change your life.
00:42:07.006 --> 00:42:08.608
It's a minute that you have to decide
00:42:08.608 --> 00:42:11.410
How should be your life.
00:42:11.410 --> 00:42:13.913
You can go down and to say,
00:42:13.913 --> 00:42:16.983
I lost my life.
00:42:16.983 --> 00:42:18.951
And from the other side, you can say,
00:42:18.951 --> 00:42:21.420
It's a new life, and i shall continue,
00:42:21.420 --> 00:42:23.623
And i shall do my best.
00:42:23.623 --> 00:42:25.591
There was a minute, it was hanukkah,
00:42:26.359 --> 00:42:30.630
And i got a phone call from the dead sea.
00:42:30.630 --> 00:42:34.233
My kibbutz was sent to the dead sea. -so they had to
00:42:34.233 --> 00:42:37.870
Evacuate around the dead sea for several months. -yeah.
00:42:37.870 --> 00:42:41.741
And they call me if i can come to light a candle, hanukkah.
00:42:41.741 --> 00:42:45.945
As i arrived to this place,
00:42:45.945 --> 00:42:48.381
All the children from the kibbutz
00:42:48.381 --> 00:42:50.950
There was fighting who shall carry my wheelchair.
00:42:50.950 --> 00:42:54.120
And as i entered to the lobby,
00:42:54.787 --> 00:42:58.391
All the kibbutz was staying there,
00:42:58.391 --> 00:43:00.860
Singing and smiling and everything.
00:43:00.860 --> 00:43:06.132
I looked at them, take down my head,
00:43:06.132 --> 00:43:09.702
And i cried for five minutes.
00:43:09.702 --> 00:43:12.872
And then i take up my head,
00:43:13.472 --> 00:43:15.808
Look at them, push on my leg,
00:43:15.808 --> 00:43:19.345
And i said, if this is the price
00:43:19.345 --> 00:43:21.881
To see such a lot of people alive,
00:43:21.881 --> 00:43:24.950
It's okay. and that's my way.
00:43:24.950 --> 00:43:27.887
I did it because i have to do it.
00:43:28.554 --> 00:43:30.856
That was my job.
00:43:30.856 --> 00:43:32.324
If today i have to do it, i shall do it the same thing.
00:43:32.324 --> 00:43:36.395
Baruch, powerful words.
00:43:36.395 --> 00:43:39.432
You are a hero, sir.
00:43:39.432 --> 00:43:40.533
We're so honored to be with you today.
00:43:40.533 --> 00:43:42.001
Thank you for everything you do,
00:43:42.001 --> 00:43:43.602
And god bless you.
00:43:43.602 --> 00:43:45.104
We appreciate it. -thank you.
00:43:45.104 --> 00:43:46.839
Appreciate it.
00:43:46.839 --> 00:44:03.456
While october 7th felt like the beginning
00:44:04.323 --> 00:44:07.359
Of something new and awful,
00:44:07.359 --> 00:44:09.795
In truth, it was the latest eruption
00:44:09.795 --> 00:44:12.665
Of something very ancient.
00:44:12.665 --> 00:44:14.767
A day that shocked the world, yes,
00:44:14.767 --> 00:44:17.403
But also a day that was years in the making.
00:44:17.403 --> 00:44:21.107
What happened didn't emerge from a vacuum.
00:44:21.107 --> 00:44:24.276
This wasn't just about hamas,
00:44:24.276 --> 00:44:26.846
And it wasn't just about gaza.
00:44:26.846 --> 00:44:29.715
It's part of a much bigger picture,
00:44:29.715 --> 00:44:32.518
A network of terror, extremist ideology,
00:44:32.518 --> 00:44:35.654
And hatred that stretches far beyond israel's borders.
00:44:35.654 --> 00:44:40.960
Look, i'm 28 years old.
00:44:41.460 --> 00:44:43.329
I've had to defend my country in two wars
00:44:43.329 --> 00:44:45.531
And in many battles.
00:44:45.531 --> 00:44:47.133
Nobody wants peace more than israel.
00:44:47.133 --> 00:44:49.602
Israel unilaterally withdrew from every inch of gaza.
00:44:49.602 --> 00:44:53.239
Instead, we got an iranian-backed terror base.
00:44:53.239 --> 00:44:56.108
We know all too well the cost of war.
00:44:56.108 --> 00:44:58.410
For the first time in 100 generations,
00:44:58.410 --> 00:45:01.247
We, the jewish people, can defend ourselves.
00:45:01.247 --> 00:45:04.917
Those who have personally suffered the curse of war
00:45:04.917 --> 00:45:08.921
Can best appreciate the blessings of peace.
00:45:08.921 --> 00:45:13.025
Yes, we're defending ourselves,
00:45:13.025 --> 00:45:15.060
But we're also defending you against a common enemy
00:45:15.060 --> 00:45:18.664
That through violence and terror
00:45:18.664 --> 00:45:20.432
Seeks to destroy our way of life.
00:45:20.432 --> 00:45:25.237
Mr. prime minister, thanks so much
00:45:26.005 --> 00:45:27.339
For joining us here in jerusalem and hosting us.
00:45:27.339 --> 00:45:30.109
I want to take it back to october 7th, 2023,
00:45:30.109 --> 00:45:32.878
That fateful day.
00:45:32.878 --> 00:45:34.046
Tell us when you first knew
00:45:34.647 --> 00:45:36.849
That this was something different
00:45:36.849 --> 00:45:38.918
And the responsibility you felt
00:45:38.918 --> 00:45:41.187
As a leader of israel to respond.
00:45:41.187 --> 00:45:44.290
Well, it was saturday morning, shabbat morning,
00:45:44.290 --> 00:45:47.693
6:29 in the morning.
00:45:47.693 --> 00:45:49.695
I got a phone call from my military secretary.
00:45:49.695 --> 00:45:52.965
He said: "we've been invaded."
00:45:52.965 --> 00:45:55.267
I went down immediately to our military headquarters
00:45:55.267 --> 00:45:57.503
In tel aviv, called for a general conscription
00:45:57.503 --> 00:46:00.539
Of all our reserves, and declared war.
00:46:00.539 --> 00:46:09.949
Because what they did was so horrendous.
00:46:10.816 --> 00:46:12.952
As the news came in, it was horrendous.
00:46:12.952 --> 00:46:15.287
They not only decapitated innocent men,
00:46:15.287 --> 00:46:18.891
They raped and then murdered women.
00:46:18.891 --> 00:46:20.759
They burned babies alive in front of their parents.
00:46:20.759 --> 00:46:23.929
They took 255 hostages,
00:46:23.929 --> 00:46:26.065
Grandmothers and grandchildren.
00:46:26.065 --> 00:46:28.033
Holocaust survivors. -holocaust survivors, babies.
00:46:28.033 --> 00:46:31.203
I mean, monstrous.
00:46:31.203 --> 00:46:32.838
And so we knew we had to fight them back
00:46:32.838 --> 00:46:34.707
And roll them back, and we did immediately.
00:46:34.707 --> 00:46:37.509
But on the second day of the war,
00:46:38.277 --> 00:46:40.412
Hezbollah, the other iranian proxy from the north,
00:46:40.412 --> 00:46:43.682
Remember that hamas comes from the south.
00:46:44.583 --> 00:46:47.086
Hezbollah joins from the north.
00:46:47.086 --> 00:46:48.954
And we held them back.
00:46:48.954 --> 00:46:50.689
But i said at that point,
00:46:50.689 --> 00:46:51.790
At the second day of the war,
00:46:51.790 --> 00:46:53.359
We shall change the face of the middle east.
00:46:53.359 --> 00:46:56.195
Because i understood immediately that we're facing iran.
00:46:56.195 --> 00:47:00.733
Iran and its proxies.
00:47:00.733 --> 00:47:02.434
And when we take out these proxies one by one,
00:47:02.434 --> 00:47:04.970
When we hit them, ultimately we'll have
00:47:04.970 --> 00:47:07.072
To deal with iran too.
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This is what we learned in jewish history.
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If somebody's saying that we're out to annihilate you,
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As hamas said, as hezbollah said,
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As iran said, take them seriously.
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And the first thing we had to do,
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And this was in my mind, the first thing,
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Roll them back, and then hit them very, very hard.
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And that's exactly what we proceeded to do.
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2,1...
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This war can be over tomorrow.
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Hamas has to lay down its arms
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And release hostages.
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This war is over.
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You know, hamas talks about death to israel,
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Death to america, death to the west,
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Just like iran does, because it's a proxy of iran.
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It shares the same fanatic ideology.
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Anti-western, anti-america.
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They had a palestinian state in gaza,
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A de facto palestinian state run by hamas.
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Now what did it do? did it seek peace?
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No, because the whole quest for a palestinian state
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Isn't for palestinian self-governance.
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They already have it there.
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It's not to create a state, it's to destroy a state,
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The jewish state.
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Free, free palestine!
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It's our country! it's our country!
00:48:15.975 --> 00:48:20.713
Burn it down! burn it down!
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If fanatic, radical islam wins in the middle east.
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Not only israel will be in peril,
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The moderate arab regimes will go down the tube too.
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But it'll be, it'll gravitate towards europe.
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And let me tell you something, erick, i'll tell you this,
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It'll come to the united states.
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This extremism will haunt the western world.
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Palestine! palestine!
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You look out over your life
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And your career, you've talked about
00:48:52.144 --> 00:48:53.512
Living a life of purpose.
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Some would say, to use a biblical reference,
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That you're in this position,
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I know you've heard this before,
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For such a time as this.
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How do you feel about that?
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I'm here for a mission.
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The mission is to do, in my time,
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As the leader of this country,
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To assure the future of the jewish state.
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My late brother, who died rescuing hostages
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At the historic raid on entebbe,
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When he was a young soldier, he said:
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"i'd rather be here fighting
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"for the survival of the jewish state
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"than have it being told by historians
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"that israel was a short episode in the history
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"of the wandering jew."
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And i've devoted my life to making sure
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That that remains the case.
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Mr. prime minister, we appreciate it.
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Thank you so much. -thank you. -god bless.
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We appreciate it. thank you. -thank you, erick.
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From the streets of gaza,
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To hezbollah in beirut,
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To militias in iraq and syria,
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And houthi terrorists in yemen, and yes,
00:49:58.744 --> 00:50:01.580
Straight to tehran.
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This is a story of proxies and puppet masters,
00:50:03.782 --> 00:50:07.786
Of a regime in iran that's not just obsessed
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With wiping israel off the map,
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But with bringing down the entire free world
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As we know it.
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And israel? israel hasn't just been fighting a war,
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It's standing at the epicenter of a global battle
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Between freedom and tyranny, truth and lies,
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Life and death.
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So just as this war began in gaza,
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That's where our journey begins too.
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Because if we want to understand
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What came next,
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We need to first understand what made it possible.
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In the episodes ahead,
00:50:47.659 --> 00:50:48.727
We're going to pull back the curtain.
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We'll expose the hidden players,
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The regional shake-ups,
00:50:52.698 --> 00:50:54.366
And the spiritual and strategic battle
00:50:54.366 --> 00:50:56.902
That's playing out right now in the middle east,
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But has been brewing for decades.
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And we'll hear from the heroes
00:51:03.108 --> 00:51:05.077
Who have lived it, the soldiers,
00:51:05.077 --> 00:51:06.979
The mothers, the leaders,
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And the hostages,
00:51:09.081 --> 00:51:10.916
Like keith siegel, who was in hamas captivity
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Inside gaza for 484 days.
00:51:13.986 --> 00:51:23.695
Dad! you came back to us!
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What would your message be
00:51:26.798 --> 00:51:28.834
To the world about the reality
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Of what's happening in gaza?
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I want to talk about the hostages
00:51:32.237 --> 00:51:34.439
That are still in captivity.
00:51:34.439 --> 00:51:35.674
Every day there is abuse,
00:51:35.674 --> 00:51:38.310
Whether it be direct physical or psychological,
00:51:38.310 --> 00:51:41.713
Or just the fact that you're there
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And you have no idea when or even if you'll be released.
00:51:45.450 --> 00:51:50.722
To put to the side the violence,
00:51:51.456 --> 00:51:54.059
The abuse, the torture that i experienced
00:51:54.059 --> 00:51:56.795
And i witnessed others experience,
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I think any person in the world
00:51:58.864 --> 00:52:02.734
That considers themselves
00:52:03.302 --> 00:52:06.104
Moral people, humane people,
00:52:06.772 --> 00:52:11.210
Must recognize the fact that hamas is responsible
00:52:12.211 --> 00:52:15.581
For the suffering
00:52:15.581 --> 00:52:17.449
Of people of all faiths and all nationalities
00:52:18.383 --> 00:52:22.221
That were victims of the atrocities.
00:52:22.221 --> 00:52:25.824
The people of gaza continue to suffer
00:52:26.625 --> 00:52:29.828
Because of hamas.
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I don't understand how anybody
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Can blame israel for this.
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This isn't just about israel's survival.
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This is about the battle for the very soul
00:52:53.685 --> 00:52:56.488
Of the free world.
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And folks, this is just the beginning.
00:52:57.990 --> 00:52:57.990

I Will Fear No Evil | Heroes of October 7th and Beyond

March 13, 2026 | S1 E1 | 53:10

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