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Israel: The Prophetic Connection

John Tweedie - Israel: The Holy Land

January 20, 2026 | 27:29

John Tweedie - Israel: The Holy Land
Dr. John Tweedie hosts from outdoor scenes in Israel, as he shares God’s Word, chapter by chapter. Other experts provide insight throughout.
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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | John Tweedie - Israel: The Holy Land | January 20, 2026
  • Why is israel, this tiny little jewish nation
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  • That sits at the eastern end of the mediterranean sea,
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  • Looked upon today as a deep well of inspiration
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  • And innovation and invention that has influenced
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  • So many fields of human endeavor.
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  • Does israel have a secret
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  • Means of progress, and prospering?
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  • But other nations do not have answers.
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  • Next.
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  • And this episode of the prophetic connection.
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  • Soft music
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  • You know, as
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  • I've been saying over and over again
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  • In this latest series of the prophetic connection,
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  • Israel is a blessing to all nations,
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  • But israel is a blessing to us individually.
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  • I'm sure that most people have no idea
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  • Just how much jewish innovation and invention
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  • Is influencing their daily lives.
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  • It is, in fact, a part of their daily lives.
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  • It's simply that they do not recognize
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  • The influence of israel on us, on our lives.
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  • Daily.
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  • When they get up, the first thing they do
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  • After going into the bathroom, god willing,
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  • Is they're going to check their email, right?
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  • They're going to check their instant messenger.
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  • Are they going to look at their email,
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  • Go to facebook, open up their computer.
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  • Now inside
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  • That computer is a chip today, most likely from intel.
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  • Now intel should have on its chips something that says
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  • Israel inside because intel's chip
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  • Architecture today is almost exclusively developed in israel.
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  • The multicore architecture, which is more
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  • Or less saved the company of intel,
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  • The pentium chip, the centrino chip,
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  • These were all developed here at intel israel,
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  • Where there are over 6000 employees, the second largest
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  • Activity for intel outside of silicon valley.
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  • Where was instant messaging invented?
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  • It was invented here in israel by 420 something.
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  • Ponytailed.
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  • Guys, they created a company called iq,
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  • Which was bought by aol and was the,
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  • You know, the leader in instant messaging.
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  • Aol paid
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  • $407 million to buy this new technology.
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  • This was the highest price ever paid to an israeli
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  • Company for its technology.
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  • But this was just the beginning
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  • Of the communication revolution.
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  • Israeli researchers had peered into the future and were already
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  • Busy developing new forms of cordless telephones.
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  • The very first
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  • Cell phone in the world was created here in israel
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  • By motorola, an american company that has development
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  • Activities in israel.
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  • So motorola israel created the first cell phone.
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  • Those big things, remember,
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  • That used to be sort of like weaponry.
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  • There were these huge things
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  • That the whole idea of a portable phone came here.
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  • Cell phones have now become so commonplace, a rite of passage
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  • For new teenagers
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  • That it's now difficult for us to conceive our modern world
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  • Without them.
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  • Ten years ago in the united states alone,
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  • There were 34 million cell phone users.
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  • Today, the number of cell phone users
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  • In the us has now grown to over 203 million.
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  • Not to mention the evolving world
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  • Wide popularity and influence of this israeli invention.
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  • At some point,
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  • You're going to want to check maybe your your, your voicemail.
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  • See if you got any voice messages overnight.
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  • And you'll go to your cordless phone at home
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  • And you'll pick up that cordless phone,
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  • Which you spent 999 at sam's club or some,
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  • You know, discounter.
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  • Would you believe that that phone has a chip in it
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  • From israel, but 80% of them do from a company called spc.
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  • Never heard of it.
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  • But the brain behind your cordless phone is made
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  • By an israeli company,
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  • And then you actually check your voicemail box,
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  • And your voicemail box is being run primarily,
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  • Probably by an israeli company called converse,
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  • Which is the leading supplier of voice mail
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  • In america, certainly, and around the world.
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  • Companies like at&t and verizon and others use the
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  • The converse technology.
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  • Israeli invention is the underlying influence or source
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  • Of so much of what we do or use in our daily lives.
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  • Gadgets and other things we depend on
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  • And usually take for granted,
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  • Including medical advancements so crucial to our health
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  • And well-being.
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  • For example, how many people would be aware that
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  • Teva, the company that sells more pills to americans
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  • In capsule form than any other, is an israeli company?
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  • In fact, teva is the world's leading
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  • Generic pharmaceutical company, and one of the reasons
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  • Israel is at the forefront of medical research.
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  • If, god forbid, that person needs help
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  • With some of the new technologies
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  • In terms of health care, such as anti-cancer or spinal cord
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  • Fusion, we are leading the way in so many different areas.
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  • There's a wonderful israeli company called given imaging
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  • Who essentially invented the pill cam.
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  • They came out of the army.
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  • They took a miniature camera,
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  • Which was originally developed for a missile,
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  • And they put it in a capsule.
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  • You swallow this capsule, it's a one time use only.
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  • And during that one time, the capsule images your body.
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  • And trust me, the alternative,
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  • Which is a lot more invasive, is a lot less pleasant.
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  • And this is saving, again, you know, countless lives
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  • And making people's lives better.
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  • Israeli research is focused on virtually every area of human
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  • Need.
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  • Its researchers are working hard
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  • To make the world a better place.
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  • From solar experiments to software development,
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  • From telephony to human wellness.
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  • Israeli scientists are fully engaged in the task
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  • Of improving the quality of life for all of earth's citizens.
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  • I definitely think that in many ways,
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  • What we've created here,
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  • Well, this campus,
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  • But also in other places as well, exceeds, what
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  • What even
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  • Herzl, with his vision has envisioned. so
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  • I think is, it's quite amazing what's been created
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  • Here.
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  • As we've
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  • Seen, over and over again in this series.
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  • The land of israel was virtually devoid of people
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  • For nearly 2000 years.
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  • And the people of israel, who really belonged in that
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  • Land, were separated from it.
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  • And yet, throughout the scriptures,
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  • God promised the return of israel,
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  • Of the people of israel back to their ethnic homeland.
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  • Listen to this prophecy that's found on the lips of ezekiel,
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  • Who was one of the exiles from the first dispersion of israel
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  • Caused by the babylonians.
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  • God placed him in babylon among the exiles
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  • So he could prophesy to them and encourage them.
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  • But ezekiel's prophecies were not only for those days,
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  • But for the future.
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  • In fact, a future
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  • That is unfolding before us in the 21st century.
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  • Here's the prophecy in exile 36, verse one.
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  • And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of israel
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  • And say,
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  • All mountains of israel, hear the word of the lord.
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  • And then god goes on to speak to the prophet,
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  • To tell him he's going to bring his people back.
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  • They will return.
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  • They will restore.
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  • They will rebuild on the ancient high places
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  • That were left desolate after their destruction.
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  • And they're scattering among the gentile nations.
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  • And then as we continue reading in ezekiel 36,
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  • As we find in verse 16,
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  • Moreover, the word of the lord came to me saying, son of man,
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  • When the house of israel dwelt in their own land,
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  • They defiled it by their own ways and deeds.
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  • And then an explanation from god, verse 19.
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  • So i scattered them among the nations,
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  • And they were dispersed throughout the countries.
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  • I judged them according to their ways and their deeds.
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  • And then notice this when they came to the nations,
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  • Wherever they went, they profaned my holy name.
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  • When they said of them,
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  • These are the people of the lord.
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  • And yet they have gone out of his land.
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  • In other words, this is an indictment
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  • On the lips of the gentiles saying, if you really are
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  • The chosen nation,
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  • The people of israel, what are you doing among us?
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  • But this is god speaking through the prophet ezekiel.
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  • And then we read in verse 21 of ezekiel 36,
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  • But i had concern for my holy name, which the house israel
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  • Had profaned among the nations, wherever they went.
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  • Therefore i say to the house of israel,
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  • Thus says the lord god, i do not do this for your sake,
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  • O house of israel, meaning, i haven't brought you back.
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  • I haven't restored you.
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  • I haven't renewed you because of your doings.
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  • But for my holy name's sake,
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  • Which you
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  • Have profaned among the nations wherever you went.
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  • And i will sanctify my great name,
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  • Which has been profaned among the nations,
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  • Which you have profaned in their midst.
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  • And the nations shall know that i am the lord, says
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  • The lord god, when i am hollowed
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  • In you before their eyes.
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  • For i will take you
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  • From among the nations, gather you out of all countries,
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  • And bring you into your own land.
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  • This is an amazing prophecy given in babylon.
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  • 2500 years ago, during the first exile of israel.
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  • And of course, there was a second exile in 1870
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  • Under the roman legions, and then for 1878 years.
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  • The jews were scattered among the nations a second time.
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  • But in all that time, this prophecy, these prophecies
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  • In the holy bible, stood waiting for the moment
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  • When god would keep his promises and fulfill his word.
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  • They have made the deserts bloom
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  • And turn the desolate places into a garden of eden.
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  • But to do so in a land where water is a scarce
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  • And cherished resource, they needed to find efficient
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  • Means of irrigation and water conservation.
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  • This led to the development
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  • Of ever improving irrigation technology,
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  • Something israel is now unselfishly sharing with other
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  • Nations as they struggle to feed ever increasing populations.
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  • Here too, israel is blessing the nations
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  • By showing them how to increase crop yields while
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  • Conserving water at the same time.
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  • Israel stands first in the world when it comes
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  • To water recycling.
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  • 70% of the sewage water of israel are being recycled.
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  • Second to israel stands spain
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  • With less than 15% of recycling.
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  • We recycle whenever it is possible.
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  • We are in the midst of the desert.
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  • There is an army base not far away from here
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  • And you can hear the jets flying around.
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  • They would all be on your side of
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  • The water being
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  • Recycled from prison, which is located nearby
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  • In the middle of the desert, a highly security prison.
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  • The water being recycled.
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  • And see the results.
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  • When we look down into the valley,
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  • We can see that.
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  • We can see the olive tree next to us a little bit further away.
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  • There is a vineyard, and further away there is more olives.
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  • And right up there
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  • The hilltop is actually the very prison itself.
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  • As i say, the highest security prison.
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  • Yet the inmates are using water.
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  • Our philosophy is that simple whenever there is people,
  • 00:12:43.499 --> 00:12:47.002
  • There is water.
  • 00:12:47.002 --> 00:12:48.070
  • And whatever, there's water, there is sewage water.
  • 00:12:48.070 --> 00:12:50.439
  • And the sewage water is what we're going to recycle.
  • 00:12:50.439 --> 00:12:53.342
  • And there are the results.
  • 00:12:53.342 --> 00:12:57.379
  • We are exporting this knowledge to the whole world.
  • 00:12:57.379 --> 00:13:01.350
  • The largest water digitalization planet in
  • 00:13:01.350 --> 00:13:05.187
  • The world is in israel, built by israeli knowledge.
  • 00:13:05.187 --> 00:13:09.225
  • And this knowledge goes all around the world.
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  • This is the blessing of water, which comes from the desert.
  • 00:13:11.961 --> 00:13:15.231
  • What began in the negev desert as a local initiative to enable
  • 00:13:16.398 --> 00:13:20.069
  • The growing of crops and fruit
  • 00:13:20.069 --> 00:13:21.804
  • In a place short of water, has become, in recent years,
  • 00:13:21.804 --> 00:13:25.541
  • A means of blessing other nations
  • 00:13:25.541 --> 00:13:27.509
  • By showing them how they too can conserve water
  • 00:13:27.509 --> 00:13:30.746
  • And increase crop yields.
  • 00:13:30.746 --> 00:13:34.149
  • Located at the heart of the israeli desert,
  • 00:13:34.149 --> 00:13:37.052
  • Netafim is a cutting edge company
  • 00:13:37.052 --> 00:13:39.054
  • Which began on a kibbutz, a communal farm called hot stream
  • 00:13:39.054 --> 00:13:44.193
  • Or with moses.
  • 00:13:44.526 --> 00:13:45.394
  • Both of us here to israel.
  • 00:13:45.394 --> 00:13:47.997
  • He forgot to pass on his technology
  • 00:13:47.997 --> 00:13:52.101
  • Of getting water out of the rock.
  • 00:13:52.101 --> 00:13:55.204
  • And we are here in the desert.
  • 00:13:55.204 --> 00:13:58.107
  • No water.
  • 00:13:58.107 --> 00:13:59.508
  • Very saline soil.
  • 00:13:59.508 --> 00:14:01.710
  • And we had to find something,
  • 00:14:01.710 --> 00:14:04.179
  • To get our food out of the soil.
  • 00:14:04.179 --> 00:14:07.750
  • So we were looking for an industry for the kibbutz.
  • 00:14:07.750 --> 00:14:12.087
  • And drip irrigation was the natural answer.
  • 00:14:12.087 --> 00:14:15.257
  • Netafim invented a revolutionary drip
  • 00:14:16.058 --> 00:14:18.360
  • Based tube that slowly releases the exact amount of water
  • 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:21.597
  • Needed right to the root of the plant.
  • 00:14:21.597 --> 00:14:24.266
  • This is an efficient and remarkable irrigation
  • 00:14:24.266 --> 00:14:26.802
  • Process which helps to prevent waste and limit evaporation.
  • 00:14:26.802 --> 00:14:31.307
  • You can get instabilities five times
  • 00:14:31.307 --> 00:14:34.643
  • The yield as opposed to a regular open field.
  • 00:14:34.643 --> 00:14:38.414
  • In tomatoes, you can get six times the yield.
  • 00:14:38.414 --> 00:14:41.984
  • So when we say go more with less,
  • 00:14:41.984 --> 00:14:44.586
  • This is exactly what we mean.
  • 00:14:44.586 --> 00:14:46.722
  • I mean, it is an answer to pool regions
  • 00:14:46.722 --> 00:14:51.894
  • As well as to, good sophisticated farming operations
  • 00:14:51.894 --> 00:14:57.499
  • In, in europe, canada, america, what have you.
  • 00:14:57.499 --> 00:15:01.337
  • Netafim was born out of the necessity to produce
  • 00:15:01.337 --> 00:15:03.906
  • Crops where water was scarce in the desert regions of israel.
  • 00:15:03.906 --> 00:15:08.410
  • The company is now exporting its technology as a means
  • 00:15:08.410 --> 00:15:11.747
  • Of blessing the nations by easing their food shortages.
  • 00:15:11.747 --> 00:15:15.617
  • We started netafim in january of 1966,
  • 00:15:15.617 --> 00:15:21.023
  • And at the beginning
  • 00:15:21.490 --> 00:15:23.025
  • It was just as if just for us, for our farms.
  • 00:15:23.025 --> 00:15:27.162
  • And the farm manager, the tine, said, let's keep it a secret
  • 00:15:27.162 --> 00:15:30.766
  • So that our competitors in growing peaches and apricots
  • 00:15:30.766 --> 00:15:34.970
  • Will not be able to get such yields.
  • 00:15:34.970 --> 00:15:37.973
  • And of course, we opened this to the world,
  • 00:15:37.973 --> 00:15:41.143
  • And we started with south africa and australia
  • 00:15:41.143 --> 00:15:44.646
  • And the united states and then europe.
  • 00:15:44.646 --> 00:15:47.149
  • And today we are all over.
  • 00:15:47.149 --> 00:15:49.585
  • Netafim is also reaching out
  • 00:15:50.185 --> 00:15:51.887
  • Successfully to the poorer nations in africa, india
  • 00:15:51.887 --> 00:15:55.124
  • And even war torn regions such as afghanistan.
  • 00:15:55.124 --> 00:15:59.294
  • We have published books.
  • 00:15:59.828 --> 00:16:02.064
  • We have our experts to go along with those systems
  • 00:16:02.064 --> 00:16:05.200
  • And to guide and to educate people how to do it.
  • 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:09.338
  • And by this turns and from people
  • 00:16:09.338 --> 00:16:12.674
  • Who cannot make it or cannot make their day
  • 00:16:12.674 --> 00:16:15.911
  • To people who can at least produce their own food,
  • 00:16:15.911 --> 00:16:19.581
  • And maybe a little extra to sell to their neighbors
  • 00:16:19.581 --> 00:16:23.318
  • And then make a little money.
  • 00:16:23.318 --> 00:16:25.387
  • I really think that moshe, as we call him, or moses
  • 00:16:25.387 --> 00:16:29.525
  • As other people call him or moussa is other
  • 00:16:29.525 --> 00:16:33.062
  • People would be proud if he could see.
  • 00:16:33.062 --> 00:16:37.032
  • I mean, okay, he didn't get into israel.
  • 00:16:37.032 --> 00:16:41.003
  • He stood a mountain evo and watched, and we continued.
  • 00:16:41.003 --> 00:16:45.874
  • And we came here to the middle of the desert.
  • 00:16:45.874 --> 00:16:49.044
  • And we.
  • 00:16:49.044 --> 00:16:50.012
  • And when he said that this is going to be
  • 00:16:50.012 --> 00:16:53.248
  • A land of milk and honey, it was worth automatically.
  • 00:16:53.248 --> 00:16:56.952
  • I mean, you have to work for it. you have to invest.
  • 00:16:56.952 --> 00:16:59.922
  • But this is what you get.
  • 00:16:59.922 --> 00:17:01.523
  • And this is what we got here
  • 00:17:01.523 --> 00:17:03.358
  • With drip irrigation, with hard labor.
  • 00:17:03.358 --> 00:17:06.061
  • And this is what we are bringing to the world today.
  • 00:17:06.061 --> 00:17:23.078
  • The invention of
  • 00:17:23.479 --> 00:17:24.646
  • The drip irrigation system,
  • 00:17:24.646 --> 00:17:27.749
  • Occurred because of necessity of a community
  • 00:17:27.749 --> 00:17:31.487
  • In the desert where there was a scarcity of water.
  • 00:17:31.487 --> 00:17:35.157
  • And so they found a way to conserve water,
  • 00:17:35.157 --> 00:17:38.427
  • And live in the desert.
  • 00:17:38.427 --> 00:17:41.563
  • But what began as a necessity for that netafim community
  • 00:17:41.563 --> 00:17:46.301
  • Became instead a blessing for the whole world,
  • 00:17:46.301 --> 00:17:49.304
  • Because they realized
  • 00:17:49.304 --> 00:17:50.372
  • They could export this technology to the nations.
  • 00:17:50.372 --> 00:17:53.842
  • A drip at the base of every plant
  • 00:17:53.842 --> 00:17:56.445
  • And within the drips, the nutrients that israel
  • 00:17:56.445 --> 00:17:59.781
  • Added, giving sometimes ten times the average yield
  • 00:17:59.781 --> 00:18:04.987
  • That the crops could produce
  • 00:18:04.987 --> 00:18:08.590
  • From necessity to invention,
  • 00:18:08.590 --> 00:18:11.960
  • To influence, to blessing all nations.
  • 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:16.665
  • Israel ingenuity on broad display.
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  • The people of israel face significant challenges every day
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  • Due to the ongoing threat of war and random terror attacks.
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  • Resources are often redirected to the military
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  • Vulnerable children at risk and the elderly.
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  • It's abundantly clear that israeli ingenuity
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  • Is changing our world for the better.
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  • If this is true, then it's true.
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  • In particular,
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  • When applied to the weitzman institute of science in israel,
  • 00:19:46.622 --> 00:19:49.858
  • One of the world's leading research centers,
  • 00:19:49.858 --> 00:19:53.128
  • The institute was established in 1933 by doctor haim weitzman
  • 00:19:53.128 --> 00:19:57.566
  • When the population of palestine was only 400,000,
  • 00:19:57.566 --> 00:20:01.470
  • The institute's founder, who later became
  • 00:20:01.470 --> 00:20:03.538
  • The first president of israel, envisioned a world
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  • Class scientific research and study center.
  • 00:20:06.575 --> 00:20:09.945
  • In his vision, he saw a research center
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  • Which would not only attract the world's best scientific minds,
  • 00:20:12.648 --> 00:20:16.251
  • But would also offer training opportunities
  • 00:20:16.251 --> 00:20:18.754
  • To young scientists who showed unusual potential.
  • 00:20:18.754 --> 00:20:22.291
  • Weitzman dream is now a reality.
  • 00:20:22.291 --> 00:20:25.894
  • If you look at the result of science, the universal,
  • 00:20:25.894 --> 00:20:28.563
  • This is universal language.
  • 00:20:28.563 --> 00:20:30.299
  • The end result is truly universal.
  • 00:20:30.299 --> 00:20:31.800
  • If you look at drug
  • 00:20:31.800 --> 00:20:32.601
  • Like the copaxone, the looked here
  • 00:20:32.601 --> 00:20:33.969
  • At the vaccine institute for multiple sclerosis,
  • 00:20:33.969 --> 00:20:36.338
  • Well that drug is used by everybody.
  • 00:20:36.338 --> 00:20:37.973
  • Reduce christian muslim into whatever you are.
  • 00:20:37.973 --> 00:20:41.310
  • That drug will work for you.
  • 00:20:41.910 --> 00:20:43.845
  • Copaxone has proven to be of significant benefit
  • 00:20:43.845 --> 00:20:46.648
  • To those suffering
  • 00:20:46.648 --> 00:20:47.749
  • From the debilitating effects of multiple sclerosis,
  • 00:20:47.749 --> 00:20:51.086
  • But that research starts in 1966,
  • 00:20:51.086 --> 00:20:53.488
  • By professor michael cilento.
  • 00:20:53.488 --> 00:20:55.157
  • This all turned on
  • 00:20:55.157 --> 00:20:56.325
  • Who did not one at that time to develop a new drug
  • 00:20:56.325 --> 00:20:59.027
  • For multiple sclerosis, but actually were very much
  • 00:20:59.027 --> 00:21:02.197
  • Interested in to tissues and polymers and biochemistry.
  • 00:21:02.197 --> 00:21:07.536
  • That start in 1966.
  • 00:21:08.003 --> 00:21:09.604
  • And the first work was commercialized by teva in 1996.
  • 00:21:09.604 --> 00:21:13.375
  • This study, years of research.
  • 00:21:13.375 --> 00:21:15.544
  • That's something
  • 00:21:15.544 --> 00:21:16.511
  • We know that this is really an amazing impact
  • 00:21:16.511 --> 00:21:18.513
  • In the world because it changed the way people could live.
  • 00:21:18.513 --> 00:21:20.682
  • And multiple sclerosis is, of course, a terrible disease.
  • 00:21:20.682 --> 00:21:23.118
  • Yet the weitzman institute is not only about medical research
  • 00:21:23.118 --> 00:21:26.388
  • And the desire to find cures for seemingly incurable diseases.
  • 00:21:26.388 --> 00:21:30.625
  • Among other things, scientists and engineers are hard at work
  • 00:21:30.625 --> 00:21:35.030
  • Developing highly efficient solar energy technology.
  • 00:21:35.030 --> 00:21:38.500
  • They're engaged in the ongoing struggle
  • 00:21:38.500 --> 00:21:40.569
  • To conserve our planet's valuable
  • 00:21:40.569 --> 00:21:42.371
  • And diminishing resources.
  • 00:21:42.371 --> 00:21:44.339
  • You really have to remember that the goal of this institute
  • 00:21:44.339 --> 00:21:47.142
  • Is not to create this product.
  • 00:21:47.142 --> 00:21:48.677
  • The goal of the institute is to hire
  • 00:21:48.677 --> 00:21:50.045
  • The best possible researchers,
  • 00:21:50.045 --> 00:21:51.680
  • To give them the freedom to think so that they can,
  • 00:21:51.680 --> 00:21:54.549
  • To the understanding of nature, produce new ideas
  • 00:21:54.549 --> 00:21:57.753
  • That actually solve important issues. and it's what?
  • 00:21:57.753 --> 00:22:09.297
  • Today, the flag of israel,
  • 00:22:09.865 --> 00:22:11.199
  • The star of david, flutters in the wind above the knesset,
  • 00:22:11.199 --> 00:22:15.604
  • The jewish parliament in jerusalem,
  • 00:22:15.604 --> 00:22:19.274
  • And from that parliament.
  • 00:22:19.841 --> 00:22:21.510
  • Laws are developed for a nation reborn from the ashes
  • 00:22:21.510 --> 00:22:27.182
  • That today is influencing blessing all nations
  • 00:22:27.182 --> 00:22:31.787
  • Through innovation and invention.
  • 00:22:31.787 --> 00:22:35.223
  • It is an amazing story
  • 00:22:35.690 --> 00:22:38.794
  • And we would have to say, looking at this,
  • 00:22:38.794 --> 00:22:41.863
  • We would have to say, look at what the lord has done.
  • 00:22:41.863 --> 00:22:45.634
  • Look at the promises that he has fulfilled
  • 00:22:45.634 --> 00:22:49.070
  • As this little nation, jewish nation,
  • 00:22:49.070 --> 00:22:52.407
  • Fights for her very survival against other nations
  • 00:22:52.407 --> 00:22:56.244
  • That have threatened to wipe her off the map.
  • 00:22:56.244 --> 00:22:59.314
  • And yet,
  • 00:22:59.581 --> 00:23:00.816
  • In the midst of all of this animosity, hatred and suffering,
  • 00:23:00.816 --> 00:23:05.887
  • Israel continues to fulfill her destiny
  • 00:23:05.887 --> 00:23:09.591
  • To be a light to all nations, reflecting heaven's light,
  • 00:23:09.591 --> 00:23:13.061
  • And then to bless all nations.
  • 00:23:13.061 --> 00:23:16.231
  • And israel continues to do this
  • 00:23:16.231 --> 00:23:18.800
  • In spite of all the nations have done to israel.
  • 00:23:18.800 --> 00:23:22.804
  • This can only
  • 00:23:23.171 --> 00:23:24.372
  • Be explained as the heart of god, functioning in the heart
  • 00:23:24.372 --> 00:23:29.177
  • Of a people that he called into existence
  • 00:23:29.177 --> 00:23:32.481
  • In the first place.
  • 00:23:32.948 --> 00:23:50.799
  • The democratic state of israel stands in stark
  • 00:23:51.700 --> 00:23:54.302
  • Contrast to the dictatorships that surround her.
  • 00:23:54.302 --> 00:23:57.038
  • Israel values freedom of speech for all her citizens,
  • 00:23:57.038 --> 00:24:00.275
  • And because jews
  • 00:24:00.675 --> 00:24:01.910
  • Have always attached importance to learning, the opportunity
  • 00:24:01.910 --> 00:24:04.846
  • To acquire
  • 00:24:04.846 --> 00:24:06.047
  • A good education is considered the right of every israeli.
  • 00:24:06.047 --> 00:24:09.951
  • Whether arab, jew or otherwise.
  • 00:24:09.951 --> 00:24:13.121
  • Israel has the highest per capita ratio of university
  • 00:24:13.121 --> 00:24:16.358
  • Degrees in the world, 24% of those
  • 00:24:16.358 --> 00:24:19.494
  • In israel's workforce have university degrees.
  • 00:24:19.494 --> 00:24:22.998
  • This gives israel a third place
  • 00:24:22.998 --> 00:24:24.699
  • Ranking in the industrialized world
  • 00:24:24.699 --> 00:24:26.868
  • After the united states and holland.
  • 00:24:26.868 --> 00:24:29.704
  • Israel also produces more scientific papers
  • 00:24:29.704 --> 00:24:32.574
  • Per capita than any other nation
  • 00:24:32.574 --> 00:24:35.977
  • As well.
  • 00:24:36.244 --> 00:24:37.345
  • She has the highest rate of patents filed per capita
  • 00:24:37.345 --> 00:24:40.081
  • Among all nations, and on a per capita basis,
  • 00:24:40.081 --> 00:24:43.919
  • The largest number of startup companies in the world.
  • 00:24:43.919 --> 00:24:46.922
  • With the exception of the united states and canada.
  • 00:24:46.922 --> 00:24:49.991
  • Israel has the largest number of companies
  • 00:24:49.991 --> 00:24:52.360
  • Listed on the nasdaq stock exchange.
  • 00:24:52.360 --> 00:24:54.896
  • Israel can also
  • 00:24:54.896 --> 00:24:56.097
  • Claim the highest average living standard in the middle east.
  • 00:24:56.097 --> 00:24:59.901
  • All of this means that israel exists
  • 00:24:59.901 --> 00:25:02.571
  • As a shining example to the nations around her.
  • 00:25:02.571 --> 00:25:05.740
  • Barely more than 60 years old,
  • 00:25:05.740 --> 00:25:08.109
  • She has demonstrated through innovation and hard work
  • 00:25:08.109 --> 00:25:11.379
  • What is possible under the freedom that all democracies
  • 00:25:11.379 --> 00:25:14.215
  • Enjoy.
  • 00:25:14.215 --> 00:25:15.250
  • When education has value, and when every citizen
  • 00:25:15.250 --> 00:25:18.720
  • Is given opportunity for advancement according to his
  • 00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:22.123
  • Or her abilities.
  • 00:25:22.123 --> 00:25:26.261
  • Because of israel's vast experience fighting terrorism
  • 00:25:27.362 --> 00:25:30.398
  • And wars of defense, and because of israel's
  • 00:25:30.398 --> 00:25:33.401
  • Tremendous expertise with international disasters,
  • 00:25:33.401 --> 00:25:36.938
  • Israel is a world leader in search and rescue.
  • 00:25:36.938 --> 00:25:40.208
  • Israel's cutting edge emergency and medical abilities,
  • 00:25:40.208 --> 00:25:43.244
  • As well as her long tradition of helping those in need,
  • 00:25:43.244 --> 00:25:46.581
  • Make the nation of israel among the first to respond
  • 00:25:46.581 --> 00:25:49.384
  • During international crisis.
  • 00:25:49.384 --> 00:25:51.486
  • During the earthquake in haiti in 2010, hundreds of israeli
  • 00:25:51.486 --> 00:25:55.457
  • Doctors, nurses, engineers, medics and rescue workers
  • 00:25:55.457 --> 00:25:59.427
  • Were sent to haiti to help victims.
  • 00:25:59.427 --> 00:26:02.097
  • Israel was one of the first to set up
  • 00:26:02.831 --> 00:26:04.633
  • A trauma unit in haiti,
  • 00:26:04.633 --> 00:26:06.334
  • As well as surgical and emergency rooms
  • 00:26:06.334 --> 00:26:08.670
  • With the ability to service up to 500 people a day.
  • 00:26:08.670 --> 00:26:12.340
  • Haiti's utter devastation became just one more opportunity
  • 00:26:12.340 --> 00:26:15.777
  • For israel to bless those in need and shine
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  • As an exemplary light to the nations.
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  • I think ultimately, what's going on
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  • Here is a fulfillment of god's promise.
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  • You know,
  • 00:26:28.289 --> 00:26:30.091
  • I have lots of friends who aren't religious, people
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  • Who aren't observant people, aren't bible believers,
  • 00:26:32.127 --> 00:26:34.663
  • And they have trouble understanding jewish history.
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  • They have trouble
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  • Seeing what's going on and making sense of it.
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  • And in the whole saga
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  • Of the jews is completely unintelligible, in my opinion,
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  • Unless you are a god fearing, god believing person.
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  • It doesn't make any sense.
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  • It's completely illogical.
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  • Even that great rationalist, i think spinoza was asked
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  • You know, what is this?
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  • Best proof for the existence of god?
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  • And someone said his answer was the jews.
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  • Okay.
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  • The fact that we are still here
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  • Thousands of years after having been exiled from our land
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  • And not just surviving and hanging on by our
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  • Our fingernails, but creating all this incredible technology
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  • And bettering
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  • The world is simply a fulfillment of god's promise.
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