Heroes of October 7th and Beyond

The Lifesavers | Heroes of October 7th and Beyond

April 17, 2026 | S1 E5 | 49:30

Erick Stakelbeck hosts a look at the heroic acts of people during the October 7th attacks.

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Heroes of October 7th and Beyond | The Lifesavers | Heroes of October 7th and Beyond | April 17, 2026

We have one purpose,
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To rescue people under fire
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And keep them alive.
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Seven ambulances got burned that day.
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We have videos showing the hamas targeting
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The ambulance specifically.
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October 7th changed everything.
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We have a team that is not only dedicated
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To saving lives,
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But is literally fighting for their home.
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Israel didn't invent wartime medicine this year,
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But the system leveled up.
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If they're injured, we'll do anything that we can,
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Because we stop at nothing.
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The idf medical corps
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Has been able to achieve
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The lowest ever recorded case fatality rate.
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A rocket hit and there is extensive damage
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Across the entire hospital.
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Do you believe this was a planned attack
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By the iranian regime?
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There is absolutely zero doubt
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That this was an intentional hit.
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Israel has always
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Punched above its weight in medicine.
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Breakthroughs that jump from laboratory
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To life-saving application with remarkable speed.
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The pill cam capsule that revolutionized
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Internal imaging without surgery.
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Advanced focused ultrasound
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That treats deep tissue without incisions.
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Exoskeletons that help paralyzed patients walk again.
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And when disaster strikes anywhere in the world,
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Earthquakes in haiti, nepal, turkey,
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Israeli medical teams are often the first to arrive
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And last to leave.
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Setting up field hospitals and training locals
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So the help continues long after the search and rescue planes
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Fly home.
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That legacy of life-saving
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Would meet its greatest challenge
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On a single unthinkable morning.
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October 7th changed everything.
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It became the largest mass casualty day
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For civilians in israel's history.
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And among the worst terror attacks
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The modern world has ever seen.
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Within minutes of hamas' pre-dawn assault,
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There were hundreds of critically wounded civilians
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Flooding israeli hospitals at once.
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In plain english,
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Israel's entire emergency medical network
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Went from normal to full throttle
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In an instant.
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Magen david adom,
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Israel's national emergency medical service,
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An equivalent of the red cross,
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Immediately activated all available ambulances,
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Expanded dispatch operations,
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And launched emergency blood collection drives.
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The blood that saved lives that morning
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Wasn't sitting on a shelf.
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It was donated by thousands of volunteers
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Who stood in long lines throughout the sabbath.
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They broke the sabbath
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Because jewish law says saving a life comes first.
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That ancient principle has a name, "pikuach nefesh",
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And on that horrific day you saw it lived out
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In real time.
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On the roads and at the scenes,
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Medics and volunteer responders
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Threw themselves into chaos.
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In the hospitals the response was immediate.
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Trauma units surged.
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Operating rooms ran around the clock.
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Wards moved underground where needed.
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And then came the long haul, month after month,
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Mass casualty events, rockets,
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And a generation of wounded
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That would not only need surgery,
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But a path back to life.
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Today we're tracing the arc
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From the shock of october 7th
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To a system that refused to break,
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And the innovations forged under fire
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That now save lives far beyond israel.
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All of that brings us to the south,
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Because the south has carried a unique burden.
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I'm talking to shlomi codish,
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Director general of soroka medical center
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In beersheva.
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It sits about 25 miles from the gaza border,
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And through this war it has been the beating heart
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Of the southern medical response.
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We'll hear how a level one trauma center
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Serving most of israel's south stepped up.
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Professor codish, thanks so much for joining us.
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We've got a lot to talk about,
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But before we get into the events
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Of october 7th and the 12-day war,
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Tell us about soroka
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And what sets it apart in israel's health care system
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And what you do there.
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Soroka medical center is one of israel's largest hospitals.
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We're responsible for health care
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Of about 60% of the land area of israel.
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Over a million people depend on us.
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We're also the only medical center
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With a level one trauma unit nearby in the gaza strip.
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So with every war since our founding,
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From the 6-day war forward,
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We treated most of the casualties from the idf
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Coming in from the southern front.
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And regretfully, since hamas took over
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The gaza strip, a lot of civilian casualties
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As well as rockets fired into israel.
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I am happy to inform you that today in the afternoon...
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I've been ceo of the medical center
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For the past seven and a half years.
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...a return captive from hamas.
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I spent my entire adult life at soroka.
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When we take you to october 7th,
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Take us back to that day
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And how that affected soroka.
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To put this into proportion,
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The first 24 hours we treated 674 casualties.
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The largest event soroka ever treated before
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Was 120.
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When we drill, we drill to 300.
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At 300 you say stop,
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We can't handle anymore, send them elsewhere.
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In this day there was nowhere else to send.
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Roads were unsafe and people were coming to us.
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There was an hour between 11 and 12 a.m.
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Where 83 casualties arrived in one hour.
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That's an average of one every 40 seconds.
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And you have to clear the ambulance bay
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Because in 40 seconds on average someone else
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Will be coming in.
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Treating 674 casualties in one day,
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Given what we're prepared for and what we drilled for,
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Really shouldn't be possible and our staff
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Performed in an extraordinary way.
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I hate to even ask.
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We know about the atrocities hamas committed that day.
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You had to see some horrific things.
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We did.
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The first operation of the day
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Was on a pregnant woman,
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A 22-year-old woman,
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A muslim bedouin, over 40 weeks pregnant
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With her first child,
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With a gunshot wound to her abdomen.
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And the first operation of the day
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Was a caesarean section.
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And the woman survived.
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Her newly born baby died a few hours later.
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And again, she was a bedouin arab.
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Yes.
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This was not a day that differentiated.
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Yeah.
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The target was to kill israelis.
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Her crime was that she was israeli.
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Being the only medical center in the area
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Means we had good closure for this woman
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Because one year later we delivered her first child.
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So that was just, you know, sometimes you get
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Little closure points. -yes.
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I don't think it makes the previous event any better,
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But it allows your soul to get some...
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Yes, some encouragement.
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Tell us about the atmosphere
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Inside soroka that day.
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The stressful nature of the situation.
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Unprecedented.
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You have a team that is not only dedicated to saving lives,
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Which is our regular role,
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But is literally fighting for their home
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And sees everyone in the emergency department
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As a potential family member.
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I had a nurse break down at some point
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When she treated a young woman from the nova festival
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Who reminded her of her daughter.
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We had a doctor who, at 2 p.m.
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Heard from his aunt
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And his aunt was kidnapped into gaza
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And his uncle was killed.
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And we had a nurse who was kidnapped to gaza.
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So it's not just a hospital treating
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A mass casualty event,
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But this is really extremely personal.
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We lost two doctors.
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Dr. daniel levy was an immigrant from peru.
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He was a very loved member of our staff
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Who, instead of coming into the hospital
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Or staying in the sheltered room
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With his wife and two children in beeri,
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Went into a dental clinic behind their house,
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Treated people in beeri until 2 p.m.,
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When he was murdered in the clinic.
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Dr. eitan neeman was a specialist
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In pediatric intensive care.
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He worked with us in the trauma unit
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On october 7th morning.
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At around noon, he got called up for reserve service
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As a military doctor.
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He was killed in action.
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Talk about the immediate aftermath of october 7th.
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I'd imagine for months things had to be hectic,
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To say the least.
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We not only lost two doctors,
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We lost 11 staff members,
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Retirees and first-degree relatives.
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And the staff needs to heal.
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The other piece of it, besides the staff,
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Is we're now caring for soldiers.
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Over 300 helicopter landings, over 4,000 casualties.
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You know it's almost two years this war has been going on.
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And imagine a staff member who has problems in the army,
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And the helicopter is now landing,
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And they want to find out what color his boots are,
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Or what unit this is that is affected.
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The army tries to evacuate casualties
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To all hospitals in israel, to not overload any hospital.
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But if someone's life is hanging on a thread,
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They're going to land in soroka.
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Which means our emergency department team,
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Intensive care team,
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Treats the most severely wounded soldiers.
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Treating soldiers, also treating released hostages.
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Talk about those challenges.
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The best way to answer that is to tell the story of elma.
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Elma avraham was 84 years old
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When she was kidnapped from her home.
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She lived alone, she cared for herself.
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She didn't have any illnesses that debilitated her,
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Or anything else. she had chronic illnesses
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Like people at 84 have.
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Her daughter is a nurse,
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Not living in the same kibbutz.
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And when she understood her mother
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Was being kidnapped, she told her to take
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Her pills with her.
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So there's video hamas took of them
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Kidnapping an 84-year-old woman,
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On a motorcycle.
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She was released in november, the first hostage deal.
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She was released within an inch of her life.
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She couldn't walk.
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She was carried from the hamas van
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To the international red cross van,
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With little chance of survival.
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Her condition was hypothyroidism.
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And the medication cost probably about a dollar a month.
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Hamas has this medication, and they withheld it from her.
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She spent half a year at the medical center.
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So this really is a testament
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To the cruelty of what hamas did.
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Considering an 84-year-old elderly woman
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As an asset, as a...
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I can't even put words
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To describe how insane the general idea is.
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And withholding medication, vital medication,
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Intentionally, it's pure evil.
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Yes.
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But that same evil didn't stop with hamas.
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It only escalated as iran stepped out of the shadows,
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Directly purged on israel in what is now known
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As the 12-day war, operation rising lion.
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This morning around 7 a.m., a rocket hit.
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And there is extensive damage across the entire hospital.
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The iranian regime fires a ballistic missile
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On soroka medical center.
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Take us back to that day.
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So i'm actually going to go back
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One week before.
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June 13th, when we all wake up in israel
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To news that there is a war with iran.
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We have a meeting.
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The title is:
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What would be our protocol
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If a missile hits a building
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At soroka?
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We made the decision to evacuate three wards.
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So then on thursday morning,
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We get an alert on our phones saying,
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Find shelter.
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And at 7:13 and 50 seconds, the bomb shelter shakes.
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As it turns out,
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A missile hit the building of urology on the exact side
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Of the urology department.
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If you had not moved that ward...
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We would have had dozens of dead people
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On our hands.
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At this hour, 2,300 people are working at soroka.
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You know, working on patients.
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This includes premature babies, children,
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Pregnant women. you know, not combatants.
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My next concern is,
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A missile might hit beersheva,
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Are we capable of treating casualties
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From beersheva now?
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Over half of my hospital beds, unusable.
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No elevators.
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All the windows are broken.
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So what we're doing now is evacuating,
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Doing search and rescue, making sure everyone is safe.
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And in a whole parallel universe,
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Making sure our emergency department and operating rooms
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Are functional.
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So we remain functional throughout the day,
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Despite all of this going on.
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Do you believe this was a planned attack
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By the iranian regime?
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Their propaganda arm denied it,
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"it was just an accident."
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Do you believe soroka was intentionally targeted?
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There is absolutely zero doubt
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That this was an intentional hit.
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The missiles they use
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Have an accuracy range of 50 meters.
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They hit within 150 meters
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From any border of the medical center.
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We have a lot of open areas,
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A lot of grass.
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They didn't hit grass,
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They hit a building.
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They didn't hit a building,
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They hit our oldest building,
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Our least protected building.
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They hit a building where the damage will be maximal.
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They hit a building that's 100 meters away
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From our children's hospital.
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They targeted innocent civilians,
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Knowing they would be affecting the care
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Of a million people,
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Not just the people at the hospital at that time.
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And also if you look at what they targeted,
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They targeted energy structures,
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The weizmann institute,
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So higher education, and the hospital.
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So was this a mistake three times?
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Yeah.
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A day of horrific atrocity
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Committed by the iranian regime.
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A day of miracles too.
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You know, everyone with their belief system
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Will say, what happened here?
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A missile could have hit a day before,
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And we wouldn't have moved the ward.
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And you know, there is,
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Most people will say an act of god here.
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What does this say overall?
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The 12-day war,
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Iran hitting soroka
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With a missile october 7th,
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And what you've seen just over the years
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For decades at soroka, where you've had to treat
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Again and again victims of terror.
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What would you say to the world?
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The world now, in many cases,
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Is saying that israel is a bad guy here,
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And israel is committing a genocide, etc.
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What would you say?
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The nature of israel
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Versus the nature of israel's enemies.
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I think too many people in the world
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Don't understand what happened on october 7th.
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When you see babies in your emergency room
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Whose parents are dead,
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And they're brought into soroka
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Simply because there was no other place
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To bring them,
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Until social services
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Locate family members.
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When you see hundreds of parents
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Looking for their children from the nova festival,
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Whose crime was that they went to dance,
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There is a moral divide.
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And, you know,
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Hamas had peace on october 6th.
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We treated patients from the west bank
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And from gaza,
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Who were brought by the idf into soroka
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When there was a humanitarian need.
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And we saw elma,
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Who did not receive medical care in gaza,
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And we see the 37% israeli citizens,
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Muslims who are treated at soroka.
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How many jews are treated in gazan medical centers?
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How many jews live in gaza
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Or are allowed to live in gaza?
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The righteous side of the world,
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The people who know right from wrong,
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And don't chant meaningless drivel,
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Know where the truth lies,
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And they have no doubt
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That the power of good will prevail,
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As it always does, eventually.
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Amen.
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Professor, thank you so much for everything you're doing.
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God bless. keep up the great work.
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We really appreciate it.
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Thank you so much.
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What you just heard
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Is more than logistics and protocols.
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It's providence and courage.
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God's hand guiding angels in scrubs and uniforms
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Who have worked around the clock,
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Fighting evil no less than those on the front lines.
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When we return,
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We're going deeper into combat medicine
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On the battlefield,
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How israeli ingenuity and grit
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Are saving lives under fire.
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Because as an ancient jewish teaching says:
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"whoever saves a life,
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"it is as if he saved an entire world."
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"it is as if he saved an entire world."
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Blessing the nations,
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That's not just a phrase, it's a calling.
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The bible says god chose israel
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To bless the world,
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Not out of superiority, but out of service.
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In jewish tradition, that is called "tikun olam",
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Repairing what's broken, making the world better.
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Look at the record.
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In agriculture,
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Israel has turned desert into farmland,
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Sharing expertise worldwide.
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Drip irrigation that conserves water.
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Precision fertigation and greenhouses
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That multiply yields.
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Desalination and wastewater recycling
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Transformed a dry land into a water exporter,
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With training programs spreading these tools
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To villages in africa, asia, and latin america.
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In technology,
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Navigation and safety systems in your car.
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Satellites and software that let farmers
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Read their fields from space.
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Cyber security that protects hospitals and power grids.
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Why this drive to help?
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Maybe living under threat made israelis quicker
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To step in when others are in danger.
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Maybe it's the memory of the holocaust.
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Six million jews murdered that put steel in the promise.
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If we can help someone survive, we will.
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And yet, in our world today,
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Israel faces a flood of criticism and hate.
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Accused, attacked, singled out.
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The picture on the ground tells a different story.
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Urban warfare against a terror army
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That hides behind civilians.
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Missiles aimed at homes.
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Tunnels under schoolyards.
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Propaganda on every screen.
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Still, israel keeps its eye on the mission
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To protect life,
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To build, to grow, to serve.
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Turning to combat medicine
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Because the same blessing mindset shows up there too.
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From israel's early wars onward,
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The medical side kept learning.
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Each war taught hard lessons.
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Each generation built a stronger system.
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And behind it all stood a nation
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Of young and seasoned soldiers
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And military medics
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Dedicated to saving their brothers and sisters in battle.
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Always striving to make the system better.
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Then october 7th struck
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And two years of ongoing war followed.
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At the center of that fight
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Is brigadier general professor elon glassberg,
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The idf's former chief medical officer.
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We'll be launching a role 3
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Fully capable field hospital based on our...
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In glassberg you see the truth.
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Israel's mission to be a blessing to the nations
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Drives its medical system to rise under attack,
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Never to stop.
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Brigadier general elon glassberg,
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It is great to have you with us.
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Thank you for having me.
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Take us a bit through your journey.
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First of all, i'm a physician,
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I'm a surgeon, trauma surgeon.
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I went through the ranks
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And found myself as the head of the pyramid.
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We use the term surgeon general.
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It's the commander of the medical corps.
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It's also the chief medical officer.
00:24:31.916 --> 00:24:33.684
It's the professional advisor for all branches
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And all services of the idf,
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But also ministry of defense.
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And the surgeon general wears a national hat
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Because israel is a country that's constantly
00:24:43.227 --> 00:24:46.230
Getting ready for something bad to happen.
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So in times of crisis,
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He's part of the three-man team
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Who controls the system.
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Elon, tell us about where you were
00:24:55.172 --> 00:24:57.308
The morning of october 7th
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And how you knew that this was something different.
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I was at home,
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Saturday, the end of holiday sukkot,
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And the command surgeon calls me at 6.32 a.m.
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Then he says: "you know, something's very strange."
00:25:12.489 --> 00:25:16.493
A few mortars, qassam rockets,
00:25:17.127 --> 00:25:20.130
Indications here and there.
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I didn't know what to do about it.
00:25:22.900 --> 00:25:27.738
And i asked him: "did you do something?"
00:25:28.572 --> 00:25:31.909
Because previous conflicts with gaza,
00:25:32.710 --> 00:25:35.079
Some of them started after we took out
00:25:35.079 --> 00:25:37.081
Some of their leadership.
00:25:37.081 --> 00:25:38.716
And that's usually a surprise thing.
00:25:38.716 --> 00:25:40.250
So he said: "no, no, we didn't do anything."
00:25:40.250 --> 00:25:42.019
He asked me: "did you do something
00:25:42.019 --> 00:25:43.187
"at the general staff level?"
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I said: "no, no, we didn't do anything."
00:25:45.422 --> 00:25:47.858
We went silent, and it took me like,
00:25:47.858 --> 00:25:50.160
I don't know, a few seconds,
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And i told him:
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"zivan, i have no idea what this is,
00:25:52.763 --> 00:25:55.232
"but treat it as a war."
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He says: "what do you mean?" i told him:
00:25:57.701 --> 00:25:59.370
"lift all the switches,
00:25:59.370 --> 00:26:00.838
"all the alerts, call all your people from home,
00:26:00.838 --> 00:26:02.940
"call in the reservists.
00:26:02.940 --> 00:26:04.808
"and the first thing you do is you augment
00:26:04.808 --> 00:26:06.910
"soroka and barzilai hospitals.
00:26:06.910 --> 00:26:08.345
"send people to those hospitals. the first thing you do."
00:26:08.345 --> 00:26:11.949
By 6.50 a.m., our first units were already mobilized,
00:26:13.017 --> 00:26:17.588
And ambulances started coming in.
00:26:17.588 --> 00:26:21.191
Not every hunch i had along the years was right.
00:26:22.192 --> 00:26:24.728
Unfortunately, this one was.
00:26:24.728 --> 00:26:26.897
But it allowed us to be at a better position
00:26:26.897 --> 00:26:30.067
When casualties started coming in.
00:26:30.067 --> 00:26:33.303
You saw firsthand the carnage
00:26:34.004 --> 00:26:36.640
That hamas caused, the invasion.
00:26:36.640 --> 00:26:38.909
1,200 people slaughtered,
00:26:38.909 --> 00:26:40.444
Hundreds more dragged off into captivity in gaza.
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Talk about some of the challenges on that day,
00:26:44.515 --> 00:26:47.084
Some of the things you personally saw.
00:26:47.084 --> 00:26:49.620
When you look back at october 7th,
00:26:50.387 --> 00:26:52.156
We're all traumatized as a nation,
00:26:52.156 --> 00:26:54.158
Regardless of what you saw physically,
00:26:54.158 --> 00:26:56.627
Whether you were there present to see or not,
00:26:56.627 --> 00:26:58.962
We're all traumatized.
00:26:58.962 --> 00:27:02.066
Personally, i went down to beeri,
00:27:02.833 --> 00:27:05.736
The first kibbutz i hit on the road.
00:27:05.736 --> 00:27:09.206
It's a sensory overwhelming.
00:27:09.873 --> 00:27:13.444
It begins by the sight, you see the smoke,
00:27:13.444 --> 00:27:15.579
And then you smell.
00:27:15.579 --> 00:27:17.748
I came closer while we were still fighting.
00:27:17.748 --> 00:27:19.683
We had to fight our way in there.
00:27:19.683 --> 00:27:28.992
I came there so my people will see me
00:27:29.760 --> 00:27:32.663
And know that we've not forgotten about them.
00:27:32.663 --> 00:27:34.631
It's leadership.
00:27:34.631 --> 00:27:36.133
That's the normal thing to do, i think.
00:27:36.934 --> 00:27:41.071
I just wanted them to have a sense of,
00:27:41.071 --> 00:27:43.340
Yes, we're here, we got your back.
00:27:43.340 --> 00:27:45.542
They lost their friends.
00:27:45.542 --> 00:27:46.610
Some of them were injured themselves.
00:27:46.610 --> 00:27:49.146
For example, small things, right?
00:27:49.880 --> 00:27:51.982
Seven ambulances got burned that day.
00:27:52.750 --> 00:27:55.652
We have videos showing the hamas
00:27:56.353 --> 00:27:57.921
Targeting the ambulance specifically.
00:27:57.921 --> 00:28:01.792
Or a drone coming over and dropping a bomb
00:28:02.693 --> 00:28:05.496
At the ambulance team.
00:28:05.496 --> 00:28:08.565
And the first thing that my logisticians did,
00:28:09.533 --> 00:28:12.302
And i didn't have to say that,
00:28:12.302 --> 00:28:13.570
Is they found the next seven ambulances
00:28:13.570 --> 00:28:15.606
And sent them down there to replace the ambulances.
00:28:15.606 --> 00:28:18.776
Just for them to know that we're thinking of them.
00:28:19.810 --> 00:28:22.613
So i went down there for that,
00:28:22.613 --> 00:28:24.381
And i met...
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I'm sorry, i'm going to call them kids,
00:28:28.619 --> 00:28:30.387
25-year-old physicians,
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Brave, shattered.
00:28:33.423 --> 00:28:36.527
You know, they were still covered with blood and mud
00:28:36.527 --> 00:28:38.462
And whatever.
00:28:38.462 --> 00:28:39.596
And they just looked at me and said,
00:28:39.596 --> 00:28:41.165
I'm okay,
00:28:41.165 --> 00:28:42.065
Worry about the next guy.
00:28:42.065 --> 00:28:43.600
So we have real heroes down there.
00:28:43.600 --> 00:28:46.203
And by the way, when i came back,
00:28:46.203 --> 00:28:47.337
My commander went crazy with me.
00:28:47.337 --> 00:28:49.406
He said: "you're supposed to be here.
00:28:49.406 --> 00:28:51.041
"i need you here. stop... i mean, grow up.
00:28:51.041 --> 00:28:54.144
"stop running towards danger."
00:28:54.144 --> 00:28:55.846
I think he's right,
00:28:56.313 --> 00:28:57.848
But it took me three days and i went back down. -yeah.
00:28:57.848 --> 00:29:00.884
You were there three times in the first week
00:29:00.884 --> 00:29:02.953
After october 7th. -yes, but the third time
00:29:02.953 --> 00:29:04.855
I went for selfish reasons.
00:29:04.855 --> 00:29:07.457
Third time i went down there
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Because i wanted the sights and the smells
00:29:08.692 --> 00:29:12.196
To burn it into my memory.
00:29:12.196 --> 00:29:16.433
You've pushed for years for changes
00:29:17.201 --> 00:29:19.069
In battlefield medicine.
00:29:19.069 --> 00:29:21.438
Tell us more about what that means
00:29:21.438 --> 00:29:22.973
And why you were so passionate about that.
00:29:22.973 --> 00:29:25.375
It's mainly about those who lost
00:29:25.375 --> 00:29:28.178
That we thought that we could have done better.
00:29:28.178 --> 00:29:30.581
You felt like some of these casualties
00:29:30.581 --> 00:29:32.149
Could have been avoided. -yes.
00:29:32.149 --> 00:29:34.318
And when the war broke,
00:29:34.818 --> 00:29:36.386
We brought state-of-the-art medical care to our troops.
00:29:36.386 --> 00:29:41.491
We maneuver with a physician
00:29:42.125 --> 00:29:44.995
Or a paramedic with three medics.
00:29:44.995 --> 00:29:48.665
They work as a team of four
00:29:48.665 --> 00:29:50.901
Embedded with every fighting company.
00:29:50.901 --> 00:29:54.271
That brings down the time
00:29:54.805 --> 00:29:56.139
Between you're injured until you have a physician
00:29:56.139 --> 00:29:57.774
Standing above you, between zero,
00:29:57.774 --> 00:29:59.877
Because you're the next guy in line, to four minutes.
00:29:59.877 --> 00:30:03.247
Because we did that,
00:30:03.714 --> 00:30:05.048
We can provide state-of-the-art care
00:30:05.048 --> 00:30:07.217
At the point of injury immediately.
00:30:07.217 --> 00:30:11.021
The second thing we did is we gave those providers
00:30:12.055 --> 00:30:14.291
Blood products.
00:30:14.291 --> 00:30:14.958
We carry blood,
00:30:14.958 --> 00:30:16.460
What we call freeze-dried plasma,
00:30:16.460 --> 00:30:18.495
Which is the fluid of the blood
00:30:18.495 --> 00:30:20.430
Freezed, dried into powder it looks like instant coffee.
00:30:20.430 --> 00:30:23.233
You add water, you mix it,
00:30:23.233 --> 00:30:24.701
You get a blood unit that fits all blood types.
00:30:24.701 --> 00:30:26.803
We walk around with it in our vests.
00:30:27.604 --> 00:30:29.940
It doesn't require refrigeration.
00:30:29.940 --> 00:30:31.875
And then you have a provider standing above,
00:30:32.776 --> 00:30:34.378
You who makes that call, gives you a blood product,
00:30:34.378 --> 00:30:36.280
And then you'll start evacuating.
00:30:36.280 --> 00:30:38.048
So you don't have to call for a medic.
00:30:38.048 --> 00:30:39.683
He's there, he's in the unit.
00:30:39.683 --> 00:30:41.184
Yes.
00:30:41.184 --> 00:30:42.219
Nobody in the world does that
00:30:42.886 --> 00:30:44.421
For the last artillery battalion
00:30:44.421 --> 00:30:46.657
Or the air defense regiment or...
00:30:46.657 --> 00:30:49.293
Golani, givati,
00:30:49.660 --> 00:30:50.894
All of them, all of them, all of them
00:30:50.894 --> 00:30:52.396
Can have physicians and paramedics with them.
00:30:52.396 --> 00:30:55.399
So we put them in harm's way,
00:30:56.066 --> 00:30:58.135
And we lose people because they're at the front.
00:30:58.135 --> 00:31:00.437
But they save so many people.
00:31:01.104 --> 00:31:05.475
That's part of the culture
00:31:06.109 --> 00:31:08.211
That we built in the medical world.
00:31:08.211 --> 00:31:11.682
Elon, you've made many changes.
00:31:12.416 --> 00:31:14.818
How do you know they've actually made a difference?
00:31:14.818 --> 00:31:17.721
What we use is what's called case fatality rate.
00:31:17.721 --> 00:31:20.390
Of those who are seriously injured,
00:31:20.390 --> 00:31:22.225
How many died?
00:31:22.225 --> 00:31:23.560
The whole world, including us,
00:31:23.560 --> 00:31:25.862
Has been around 15% case fatality rate
00:31:25.862 --> 00:31:28.799
Since the 80s.
00:31:28.799 --> 00:31:31.335
Over the last two years, the idf,
00:31:32.002 --> 00:31:34.338
The medical corps, has been able to achieve
00:31:34.338 --> 00:31:36.540
The lowest ever recorded case fatality rate.
00:31:36.540 --> 00:31:39.810
We brought our case fatality rate down
00:31:39.810 --> 00:31:41.745
By more than 50%.
00:31:41.745 --> 00:31:44.081
That translates into saving
00:31:44.081 --> 00:31:46.083
More than half of the casualties
00:31:46.083 --> 00:31:48.118
Who used to slip between our fingers before.
00:31:48.118 --> 00:31:51.121
Imagine someone coming to you
00:31:51.788 --> 00:31:53.590
And telling you they can do something
00:31:53.590 --> 00:31:55.158
To reduce the mortality from pancreatic cancer by half.
00:31:55.158 --> 00:31:59.896
This is what we've done here.
00:31:59.896 --> 00:32:02.733
It's something that we're trying to replicate
00:32:03.700 --> 00:32:06.169
So others can implement many of these changes as well.
00:32:06.169 --> 00:32:09.573
For example, we changed our airway protocol,
00:32:10.474 --> 00:32:13.510
How we ventilate people, three times over the war.
00:32:13.510 --> 00:32:17.781
If you want to put it in comparison,
00:32:17.781 --> 00:32:20.150
So the international accepted protocol for airway.
00:32:20.150 --> 00:32:22.786
The last time it was updated
00:32:22.786 --> 00:32:24.454
Was, i think, seven years ago.
00:32:24.454 --> 00:32:26.556
And we did three updates in two years.
00:32:26.556 --> 00:32:28.825
And now we share something
00:32:29.393 --> 00:32:31.194
That is precious to militaries but not only.
00:32:31.194 --> 00:32:34.698
Yeah. israel is known as the land of innovation.
00:32:34.698 --> 00:32:39.069
Can you talk about the influence that's had internationally
00:32:39.069 --> 00:32:41.638
Or other countries like the united states
00:32:41.638 --> 00:32:43.707
Coming to you and saying,
00:32:43.707 --> 00:32:45.075
Hey, that you guys are onto something really good here?
00:32:45.075 --> 00:32:48.512
Yes. i will say our biggest challenge
00:32:48.512 --> 00:32:51.815
As medical professionals
00:32:51.815 --> 00:32:53.183
Working in the military environment
00:32:53.183 --> 00:32:55.185
Is we have very, very little data
00:32:55.185 --> 00:32:58.088
On what's really going on out there.
00:32:58.088 --> 00:33:00.424
It's very hard to collect data
00:33:01.058 --> 00:33:02.225
When you're shot at and you're running
00:33:02.225 --> 00:33:03.860
In a helicopter.
00:33:03.860 --> 00:33:05.729
For example, you want to ask me about that plasma,
00:33:05.729 --> 00:33:08.265
Does it make a difference?
00:33:08.265 --> 00:33:10.133
How can you know? we need to collect data
00:33:10.133 --> 00:33:12.436
To know if it makes difference.
00:33:12.436 --> 00:33:14.771
So we implemented a system using sort of ipad
00:33:14.771 --> 00:33:19.643
That collects the data,
00:33:19.643 --> 00:33:21.011
And now we can sit back and say,
00:33:21.011 --> 00:33:22.612
You know, casualties were injured on wednesdays
00:33:22.612 --> 00:33:24.681
And got this plasma, they are doing better
00:33:24.681 --> 00:33:27.117
Than those were injured on tuesdays.
00:33:27.117 --> 00:33:29.653
We're sharing that data almost real time.
00:33:29.653 --> 00:33:32.355
We're connected with the american dod trauma registry.
00:33:32.355 --> 00:33:36.259
So we will be able to sit on that data
00:33:36.259 --> 00:33:38.228
And learn from it.
00:33:38.228 --> 00:33:39.429
And i think it's an obligation
00:33:40.097 --> 00:33:41.832
To share and help others to spread some good.
00:33:41.832 --> 00:33:48.038
What does the world misunderstand,
00:33:48.805 --> 00:33:51.308
I guess you could say, about the challenges
00:33:51.308 --> 00:33:53.677
And the enemies that israel faces?
00:33:53.677 --> 00:33:56.713
We represent the western world.
00:33:56.713 --> 00:33:58.949
And i've treated hundreds of syrians
00:33:58.949 --> 00:34:01.318
And whomever you want from any country around us,
00:34:01.318 --> 00:34:04.654
Even countries we don't speak with openly.
00:34:04.654 --> 00:34:07.757
And i had many nights of, you know,
00:34:07.757 --> 00:34:10.060
Patient and doctor, you sit there overnight.
00:34:10.060 --> 00:34:11.761
You have nothing else to do, we talk.
00:34:11.761 --> 00:34:14.097
And i've unfortunately seen that over and over again.
00:34:14.097 --> 00:34:17.968
They are looking at us as the little satan.
00:34:17.968 --> 00:34:20.337
Guess who's the big satan.
00:34:20.337 --> 00:34:23.507
The energy they spend at us,
00:34:24.107 --> 00:34:26.143
Directing at us, is just a foreplay.
00:34:26.143 --> 00:34:29.946
No one builds missiles that can fly 6,000 kilometers
00:34:29.946 --> 00:34:33.717
To target israel.
00:34:33.717 --> 00:34:34.751
Guess where they're going to go next?
00:34:35.552 --> 00:34:37.787
America, europe.
00:34:38.155 --> 00:34:40.690
Israel is the first line of defense
00:34:41.424 --> 00:34:43.393
For western civilization. -yes.
00:34:43.393 --> 00:34:47.531
That doesn't give us the right to do bad things,
00:34:48.532 --> 00:34:51.501
And we must remain committed to our values.
00:34:52.402 --> 00:34:56.573
We can't behave like them.
00:34:57.140 --> 00:35:01.178
When we return, up close with iaf combat rescue unit 669.
00:35:02.245 --> 00:35:19.629
What are some other things you're optimistic about?
00:35:20.630 --> 00:35:22.832
What keeps you optimistic
00:35:22.832 --> 00:35:25.569
In the midst of all the madness?
00:35:25.569 --> 00:35:31.775
There's a quote that says there's no other victory at war
00:35:32.909 --> 00:35:36.980
Other than medicine.
00:35:36.980 --> 00:35:38.448
Penicillin was invented in world war ii.
00:35:38.448 --> 00:35:40.650
Blood units, world war i.
00:35:40.650 --> 00:35:43.553
Plastic surgery.
00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:45.555
After the blitz in london,
00:35:45.555 --> 00:35:46.656
People lost their face and the surgeons
00:35:46.656 --> 00:35:48.024
Had to come up with a way to fix it.
00:35:48.024 --> 00:35:49.859
So war is an accelerator for medicine.
00:35:49.859 --> 00:35:53.797
It's one of the few things,
00:35:54.397 --> 00:35:55.832
Good things that come out of war.
00:35:55.832 --> 00:35:58.068
I think this war will, hopefully,
00:35:58.802 --> 00:36:00.971
We'll be able to bring some good out of that.
00:36:00.971 --> 00:36:07.010
What keeps me optimistic is a difficult question.
00:36:07.944 --> 00:36:11.014
I don't wake up every day very optimistic.
00:36:11.014 --> 00:36:15.619
If there's one thing that keeps me optimistic
00:36:15.619 --> 00:36:17.921
It's the next generation.
00:36:17.921 --> 00:36:20.223
All the tiktok generation,
00:36:20.790 --> 00:36:21.925
All the bad words we used to call them,
00:36:21.925 --> 00:36:24.294
They're our heroes. -they've been called
00:36:24.294 --> 00:36:26.062
Israel's greatest generation.
00:36:26.062 --> 00:36:27.864
Yes, but not beforehand.
00:36:28.365 --> 00:36:31.334
We were worried about how weak they were.
00:36:31.334 --> 00:36:35.405
They stood up, they saved this nation.
00:36:36.172 --> 00:36:39.209
They pushed back hamas, they fought back.
00:36:39.209 --> 00:36:43.380
4, 2!
00:36:43.613 --> 00:36:46.049
Our team's just part of that.
00:36:46.683 --> 00:36:49.452
You already knew that the people of israel
00:36:50.353 --> 00:36:52.188
Were very resilient through wars and terror.
00:36:52.188 --> 00:36:54.858
Can you talk about your personal experience
00:36:54.858 --> 00:36:57.294
With that and your view of israel
00:36:57.294 --> 00:37:00.964
And the people of israel?
00:37:00.964 --> 00:37:02.699
Despite the fact that i'm an israeli,
00:37:02.699 --> 00:37:05.001
I live here, i grew up i mean,
00:37:05.001 --> 00:37:06.936
I was still pleasantly surprised
00:37:06.936 --> 00:37:09.372
By how resilient people here are.
00:37:09.372 --> 00:37:11.775
It begins with a simple thing
00:37:11.775 --> 00:37:13.343
As the casualty who's seriously injured
00:37:13.343 --> 00:37:15.278
And he wants to go back to his unit.
00:37:15.278 --> 00:37:18.381
These people are resilient.
00:37:19.015 --> 00:37:20.650
The nation is resilient.
00:37:21.151 --> 00:37:23.320
You'll see people go to the shelter
00:37:24.120 --> 00:37:26.890
And 10 minutes later you'll see everybody out
00:37:27.791 --> 00:37:30.293
Going out having drinks with friends
00:37:30.293 --> 00:37:32.062
And restaurants are open.
00:37:32.062 --> 00:37:33.863
People want to live. people want to have some sense of normal,
00:37:33.863 --> 00:37:38.535
So we can all lick our wounds,
00:37:39.202 --> 00:37:42.672
Take a deep hard look inside
00:37:42.672 --> 00:37:46.910
And prepare for the next challenge
00:37:46.910 --> 00:37:50.613
Because unfortunately we're stuck in the middle east.
00:37:50.613 --> 00:37:54.851
Yeah, that's a tough neighborhood for sure
00:37:54.851 --> 00:37:56.686
But thank god you're here, elon,
00:37:56.686 --> 00:37:58.154
And your team is here
00:37:58.154 --> 00:37:59.155
And really changing the game
00:37:59.155 --> 00:38:00.990
In the field of battlefield medicine.
00:38:00.990 --> 00:38:03.159
Amazing. elon, thank you so much.
00:38:03.159 --> 00:38:04.861
We appreciate it.
00:38:04.861 --> 00:38:05.762
Thank you. -thank you.
00:38:05.762 --> 00:38:08.565
Israel didn't invent wartime medicine this year
00:38:09.532 --> 00:38:12.969
But the system leveled up.
00:38:12.969 --> 00:38:15.271
Military and civilian medicine came together seamlessly.
00:38:15.271 --> 00:38:19.209
Technology and tactics sharpened.
00:38:19.209 --> 00:38:21.911
Logistics got smarter.
00:38:21.911 --> 00:38:24.180
And behind the scenes an army of volunteers
00:38:24.180 --> 00:38:27.317
Kept showing up with what money can't buy.
00:38:27.317 --> 00:38:30.653
Time, blood and courage.
00:38:31.154 --> 00:38:35.592
Hospitals across the country adapted like living organisms.
00:38:36.760 --> 00:38:41.931
Intensive care beds multiplied.
00:38:41.931 --> 00:38:44.934
Pediatric units learned to handle blast injuries
00:38:45.902 --> 00:38:49.339
And shrapnel alongside routine care.
00:38:49.339 --> 00:38:53.076
Specialized rehabilitation centers
00:38:53.076 --> 00:38:55.879
Like sheba's rehab hospital took on the toughest cases.
00:38:55.879 --> 00:39:00.950
Amputees learning to walk on advanced prosthetics.
00:39:00.950 --> 00:39:05.221
Nerve injuries retrained with robotics and vr
00:39:05.221 --> 00:39:15.331
And the invisible wounds of war treated
00:39:16.199 --> 00:39:19.202
With world class ptsd programs.
00:39:19.202 --> 00:39:22.839
It's surgery and soul care side by side.
00:39:22.839 --> 00:39:29.412
And that critical chain of survival
00:39:30.180 --> 00:39:32.849
Begins at the point of injury under fire
00:39:32.849 --> 00:39:36.786
With the heroes of unit 669.
00:39:36.786 --> 00:39:40.056
Mati shoshani is speaking with one of them.
00:39:40.056 --> 00:39:43.393
A reservist, a father and a physician.
00:39:43.393 --> 00:39:47.030
But today, for security reasons,
00:39:47.030 --> 00:39:49.265
We refer to him only as major j.
00:39:49.265 --> 00:39:53.036
So major j., thank you for being with us.
00:39:53.903 --> 00:39:56.239
My pleasure.
00:39:56.573 --> 00:39:58.174
You serve in a unit called 669.
00:39:58.174 --> 00:40:01.578
It's a search and rescue unit
00:40:01.578 --> 00:40:02.812
That's related to the israeli air force
00:40:02.812 --> 00:40:04.981
But it does things that i think are beyond amazing.
00:40:04.981 --> 00:40:08.918
So the unit was established around 1974.
00:40:08.918 --> 00:40:13.189
The goal was to rescue the pilots
00:40:13.923 --> 00:40:17.260
That the aircrafts were hit and trying to bail them out
00:40:17.260 --> 00:40:20.129
From enemy territory
00:40:20.129 --> 00:40:22.232
And do the best to stabilize them
00:40:22.966 --> 00:40:25.735
And bring them to the hospital
00:40:25.735 --> 00:40:27.036
In a way that they'll be able
00:40:27.036 --> 00:40:28.571
To be treated and saved.
00:40:28.571 --> 00:40:32.075
I've been in the unit for many years
00:40:32.842 --> 00:40:35.411
And the unit really evolved dramatically.
00:40:35.411 --> 00:40:39.249
And the major purpose of the unit
00:40:39.249 --> 00:40:41.150
Is to be anywhere that we're needed
00:40:41.150 --> 00:40:43.486
Anytime that we're called for
00:40:43.486 --> 00:40:45.822
To help rescue injured soldiers or civilians
00:40:45.822 --> 00:40:50.059
And to keep them alive.
00:40:50.059 --> 00:41:08.878
Your unit and several other medical units
00:41:09.779 --> 00:41:11.948
Are responsible for the fact that there are probably
00:41:11.948 --> 00:41:14.384
Hundreds of people that walk amongst us today
00:41:14.384 --> 00:41:17.020
That should have been underground at this point.
00:41:17.020 --> 00:41:19.822
And you hear people who tell the story:
00:41:19.822 --> 00:41:21.491
"i was bleeding to death on the battlefield
00:41:21.491 --> 00:41:24.394
"and a guy," possibly you,
00:41:24.394 --> 00:41:27.196
"literally pulled me back from the land of the dead
00:41:27.196 --> 00:41:29.499
"into the land of the living."
00:41:29.499 --> 00:41:31.200
Perhaps it will sound a bit vain
00:41:31.200 --> 00:41:33.002
But i think it's way more than a few hundred of people
00:41:33.002 --> 00:41:36.406
That are walking among us again and being able to live.
00:41:36.406 --> 00:41:56.893
It's unbelievable to see how the pilots acted
00:41:57.794 --> 00:42:01.030
Going under fire into the heart of combat
00:42:01.030 --> 00:42:04.367
Just to pull out two, three, four people.
00:42:04.367 --> 00:42:07.236
The fourth is on the ramp. -are there any injured?
00:42:07.236 --> 00:42:10.440
The fifth is on the ramp.
00:42:10.440 --> 00:42:11.874
Time on ground was decreased
00:42:12.542 --> 00:42:14.410
To sometimes less than 30 seconds
00:42:14.410 --> 00:42:16.412
From the point that the chopper lands
00:42:16.412 --> 00:42:18.514
To the point that the chopper is going out.
00:42:18.514 --> 00:42:39.035
We pioneered a lot of different techniques
00:42:39.902 --> 00:42:43.072
Like whole blood, for example.
00:42:43.072 --> 00:42:44.874
Something that enabled us to treat people
00:42:44.874 --> 00:42:47.810
That otherwise would have died because of shock
00:42:47.810 --> 00:42:51.414
And bring them alive to the hospital.
00:42:51.414 --> 00:42:54.684
Once you come back from a mission like that
00:42:55.551 --> 00:42:57.987
And had a very severely injured soldier, for example,
00:42:57.987 --> 00:43:01.057
And you were able to keep him alive,
00:43:01.057 --> 00:43:04.127
It's a huge pride for all of us
00:43:04.861 --> 00:43:07.797
And something like the air that you breathe.
00:43:07.797 --> 00:43:11.134
And you can see it by the fact that many of us
00:43:11.134 --> 00:43:15.004
Go to different hospitals and visit the people
00:43:15.004 --> 00:43:17.373
That we evacuated and follow them up
00:43:17.373 --> 00:43:20.076
And see how they're doing and how they're improving
00:43:20.076 --> 00:43:22.145
And what's happening with them.
00:43:22.145 --> 00:43:23.212
So it wasn't just a mission
00:43:23.212 --> 00:43:24.447
Of taking a soldier that was injured
00:43:24.447 --> 00:43:27.083
And that's it. no, it's like a blood connection.
00:43:27.083 --> 00:43:30.520
One thing really stands out to me.
00:43:31.287 --> 00:43:33.022
How much effort our country and our army put
00:43:33.022 --> 00:43:36.025
Into saving lives.
00:43:36.025 --> 00:43:37.460
And i'd be interested to hear your take
00:43:37.460 --> 00:43:39.128
As a medical professional who does this both
00:43:39.128 --> 00:43:41.597
As his personal vocation and military practice.
00:43:41.597 --> 00:43:44.534
Well, i try to think of a correct phrase.
00:43:44.534 --> 00:43:47.570
You know, they say the sky is the limit,
00:43:47.570 --> 00:43:49.338
I think the sky isn't the limit,
00:43:49.338 --> 00:43:50.840
I think that it's way beyond it.
00:43:50.840 --> 00:43:55.645
But we don't work in a vacuum.
00:43:56.345 --> 00:43:58.815
I'm lucky enough to work with combat soldiers
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That may be much younger than me, at the age of my kids,
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And still we work together as a team.
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We're all like one unit,
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One sole unit that has one purpose.
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It's like a guided missile.
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You leave from a certain area
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And you go to the injured soldiers
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Wherever they be.
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People know that whatever will happen
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They can just wait to hear the sound of the chopper
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And we'll never let them down.
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I get chills hearing you say that.
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Seriously. -sometimes, you know, things are said
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As a motto.
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Here it's far more than that.
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Here it's the way that we live.
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If you look at the international media
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And sort of like the blitz that's been going on
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Against israel
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I guess almost since the war started,
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Is there something that you felt on the ground
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That you touched, that you saw,
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That you feel like i wish people knew
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That this is what we do?
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I think, unfortunately, it's easy for a lot of people
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To hate my country
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Rather than to try and understand.
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As a soldier, as a medical physician,
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Being there and seeing what's happening
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And knowing how much is done
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To try and do things the best way
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And being as moral as you can.
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Even in the middle of combat going
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And helping evacuate palestinians that were involved
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In an accident, having a whole crew
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Go and do evacuation of the palestinian injured people
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And focusing on something like that,
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I think it's something that shows the exact spirit
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And sort of people that the idf is comprised of.
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You do something like that that at times costs
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Our soldiers lives
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And hearing after you're doing things
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That are immoral really causes me
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To feel terrible.
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I think that humanity is one of the most
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Important things that's always in front of our eyes.
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Is there one moment that sticks out as like
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This was one of the most significant moments
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That i had in this time?
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Well, i had the privilege of escorting
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Some of the kidnapped who returned to israel.
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Looking at these people
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And thinking of what they went through,
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The horror that they had to really live
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Or try to live and pull through
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Was devastating.
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But on the other hand,
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Seeing the eyes, you know,
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The eyes begin to glitter and seeing the life
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Somehow returning into them,
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Seeing the way that all the country hugged them,
00:46:59.962 --> 00:47:02.765
That was something that definitely was very strong.
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It's an amazing thing that happens.
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The amount of combat that's taking place
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In the idf since october 7th has been unparalleled
00:47:14.944 --> 00:47:17.580
In military history.
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And the amount of medical miracles
00:47:19.815 --> 00:47:21.817
That have taken place is equivalent to that.
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It's deeply inspiring to me,
00:47:26.956 --> 00:47:28.524
Deeply moving to know that our country will go
00:47:28.524 --> 00:47:30.760
To such lengths to protect life
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And sanctify life.
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And i think what you do is very admirable.
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Thank you very much. -thank you, major j.
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Innovation and excellence have emerged from this war.
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New tools, new tactics,
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Ways to pull lives back from the brink.
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But let's acknowledge the cost.
00:47:55.651 --> 00:47:58.120
Israel's neighborhood is harsh
00:47:58.821 --> 00:48:01.123
And the burden falls heavily on families.
00:48:01.123 --> 00:48:04.894
Mothers and fathers sending young soldiers
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Into harm's way.
00:48:08.831 --> 00:48:10.399
Empty chairs at dinner,
00:48:10.900 --> 00:48:13.235
Wounded kids learning to walk again.
00:48:14.003 --> 00:48:16.772
These are the heaviest losses in decades
00:48:16.772 --> 00:48:19.875
And the pain doesn't fade at sunset.
00:48:19.875 --> 00:48:23.212
Month after month the war persists.
00:48:24.013 --> 00:48:26.983
Trauma clinics stay packed.
00:48:26.983 --> 00:48:29.251
Night after night the red lights glow.
00:48:29.251 --> 00:48:33.856
Yet in the midst of hurt the heartbeat remains.
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Choose life, keep building,
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Keep moving forward.
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That's medicine in israel.
00:48:42.965 --> 00:48:44.800
Steel and compassion, hand in hand.
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Which brings us to what comes next.
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Allah akbar!
00:48:50.606 --> 00:48:53.175
On october 7th terrorists dragged
00:48:53.909 --> 00:48:56.345
250 innocent civilians into gaza.
00:48:56.345 --> 00:49:00.082
Allah akbar!
00:49:00.082 --> 00:49:01.617
Men, women, kids, grandparents.
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Next time you'll hear from those who made it back.
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Their first minutes of freedom.
00:49:11.494 --> 00:49:13.763
The faces they remember in the dark.
00:49:14.530 --> 00:49:17.166
The hope that refused to die.
00:49:17.166 --> 00:49:19.635
And from the families who lost their beloved ones
00:49:20.669 --> 00:49:24.106
In that cruel, terrifying hellhole.
00:49:24.106 --> 00:49:24.106

The Lifesavers | Heroes of October 7th and Beyond

April 17, 2026 | S1 E5 | 49:30

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