By now, you’ve probably heard countless accounts of what transpired on October 7. But unless you’ve seen this clip, which is making its way around Israeli social media, you haven’t heard this story. And if you haven’t heard this story, then you haven’t seen what the emerging generation of Israeli leadership is going to look like, to sound like, to be like.
Two extraordinary people—an educator, who was once “the most famous soldier in the IDF, and an 18-year old student without a day of military experience or training—race to the front that morning, into the shooting, the rockets and the dying, and show why many commanders are calling this the “generation of victory.”
Not much more needs to be said. A society that produces people like this, I deeply wish to believe, is a society that will defeat even what we now confront.
Wishes for increasing light in on this last day of Hanukkah.
If you’re just joining us, Israel from the Inside typically posts a written column on Mondays and a podcast on Wednesdays. That is obviously irrelevant for the time being.
We’ve delayed all the podcasts that were ready to go, because the people whose stories they tell deserve to tell them when we all have the bandwidth to hear. Hopefully, that will return some day.
For the next three weeks, beginning Sunday, December 18th, we will be posting a bit less, as people in the United States will be on vacation, traveling and the like, and here in Israel, as some reservists are being rotated out of units, those of us who could not leave while our kids were/are at the front, will be using the time to visit kids abroad.
Impossible Takes Longer is now available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble and at other booksellers.
Our Threads feed is danielgordis. We’ll start to use it more shortly.
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