Yoav Heller Answers 18 Questions on the War, the Hostages, and Israel's Future

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yussie Zakutinsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Hi, I'm Yoaveer. I'm the chairman of Reonra the fourth quarter, the biggest grassroot political organization in Israel. And this is 18 questions, 40 Israeli thinkers from 1840. We'll begin where we always do. As an Israeli and as a Jew, how are you feeling at this moment in Israeli history? I feel uh a lot of responsibility because I think we are uh in an era where we need think we are uh in an era where we need a lot of historical awareness of the simple fact and it says it tells us also in the Mishna uh that we are one generation that in the past there were many generations and that we are preparing the future. And within that chain, we have the responsibility on the one hand to understand that we're not going to solve everything. But on the other hand, that we have a lot of work to do in order to we have a lot of work to do in order to promise that the state of Israel will celebrate 100 years for the first time in history. Did you always feel that sense of responsibility? When did that begin? I think from my childhood, I grew up in a home with with a lot of historical awareness. Where did you grow up? Okay. Okay. And that's the second reason. I grew up in many uh environments. I grew up uh in Nigeria and Africa. Then in Atlanta, Georgia. Oh wow. Then in Minamea, it's in the far far north of

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1. 0:00Hi, I'm Yoaveer. I'm the chairman of Reonra the fourth quarter, the biggest grassroot political organization…
2. 6:16think something in the deep psychology of Israeli society has changed. We feel more fragile on…
3. 12:23okay the hostage issue specifically is a Greek tra uh tragedy what's the right decision there…
4. 18:31there are non-Jews in Israel and there are different types of Jews. That's why when you…
5. 24:44uh more Judaism less uh compulsory meaning that we want to open the hearts of people…
6. 30:51I want everyone in Israel, but I'm glad that there is a Jewish presence around the…
7. 37:02uh which was conquered by the way by a colonialist power a Muslim colonialist power the…
8. 43:08you're more than welcomed because this is a democracy. Where I think you cannot drift is…
9. 49:21Israel is uh committing ethnic cleansing. I just don't uh don't think so. Now, if Israel…
10. 55:36we're not full on defeat Hamas. So tactically, we might need to compromise, unfortunately, but in…

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