1 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:06,720 Speaker 1: Team. I've just finished recording our next episode, which I 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: know I'm biased, is amazing at dropped six am et, 3 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: but I have to bring this interview to you now. 4 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:18,080 Speaker 1: Famous Israeli singer idan Ahmedi famously volunteered to go and 5 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:22,760 Speaker 1: fight after October seven got critically injured. Amdic saved his life, 6 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:25,440 Speaker 1: and this man, well, he volunteered to go back in 7 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 1: as a reservist. He is incredible. His name is Twov. 8 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 1: He's back, of course in a war zone because he 9 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 1: is well committed to saving lives. And this interview where 10 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:40,919 Speaker 1: he talks about everything from being part of Noah Agamani's 11 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:45,200 Speaker 1: rescue and of course saving Dan's life, plus what it's 12 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 1: like in a war zone facing the enemy. He humanizes 13 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 1: the IDF because that is who they are, the human 14 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 1: beings who are fighting on behalf of the rest of us. 15 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:56,959 Speaker 1: You have to watch this the rest of the episode 16 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 1: coming very shortly. Doctor Truvir book, you are somewhere right 17 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 1: now serving in the idea if I won't give away 18 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:09,680 Speaker 1: your location, and you could be called away at any time. 19 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: But I want to thank you first of all for 20 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:14,040 Speaker 1: joining us here on the Aaron Molancho but in a 21 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,039 Speaker 1: much bigger way. Thank you for your service. 22 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 2: It's a pleasure for myself and for the whole Western world. 23 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 1: Tell me, do you get thanked often for your service? 24 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 3: Is? 25 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:30,400 Speaker 2: Of course, and it's all people really appreciated. 26 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 3: Right now, company, this is about three hundred and fifty 27 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 3: thousand soldiers on reserve. That's not even including the standing army. 28 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:38,480 Speaker 3: So a big chunk of Missouri society has come to 29 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 3: a halt. And of course without the idea if it 30 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 3: wouldn't have a state. 31 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 1: You've been serving over and over for years and years. 32 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: This is your tenth I think deployment. Is there any 33 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: element of your life that is. 34 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 3: Normal, Well, my normal non military job, I work as 35 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 3: a tour guide for incoming tourism and as you probably know, 36 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 3: the incoming tourism business and as all totally non functional 37 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 3: right now. 38 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 2: And my soul is. 39 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 3: Quite interesting because I'm a bit old to beyond reserves 40 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 3: because normally reserves and is what ends when. 41 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 2: You're about forty. 42 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 3: And I actually pushed myself back into the army at 43 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 3: the age of fifty five, when I was after the 44 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 3: October the seventh massacre in Gaza. So most of the 45 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 3: last two years I've been in the Army in my 46 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 3: medical combat extraction unit. 47 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 1: Tell me about being a medic in the IDF and 48 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 1: whose lives are you trying to save? 49 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 3: Okay, So being a medican idea is probably for me 50 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 3: at least one of the most rewarding positions you can 51 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 3: have because you're not here. Normally people associated military with 52 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 3: taking lives. In this case, we're here to save lives. 53 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 3: And when I was an infantry soldier way back in 54 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 3: the day, when I came as a lone soldier to 55 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 3: as Ul, I was in a marine combat unit called Givati, 56 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:53,519 Speaker 3: and one of my specialities, I wanted to be a 57 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 3: medic simply because it's not just for the military, it's 58 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 3: a lifetime professionalist, a parent, as a member of society. 59 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 3: Is you a lot of self security knowing how to 60 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:06,799 Speaker 3: save lives. And our particular unit right now it's called 61 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 3: the PALMA, which means a combat Medical Extruction Unit, and 62 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:11,359 Speaker 3: we're there to say fundline soldiers. 63 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:13,800 Speaker 2: And basically the way that we do it and the 64 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 2: reason we've had such a. 65 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:18,119 Speaker 3: Tremendous success in this past war is with speed, efficiency 66 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:20,799 Speaker 3: and of course the medical technology, some of it which 67 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 3: is pretty Star Wars type. 68 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:25,920 Speaker 1: How many soldiers' lives. Do you think you've played a 69 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: part in saving well. 70 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 3: Our particular unit, We actually had a we recently had 71 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:34,839 Speaker 3: a survey from the medical core of the IDF, and 72 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 3: I can tell you the exact number, which is two 73 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 3: eight hundred and fifty one saved. 74 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 2: Which are those three. 75 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 3: Hundred and fifty six were medical evacuations by air So 76 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 3: and of course each life is a universe. 77 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: Absolutely, your life is a universe. How do your family 78 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 1: feel about the fact that you voluntarily put yourself in 79 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 1: a position where you could lose your life in a second. 80 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 3: Obviously they're very proud, but also very worried and scared 81 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 3: at the same time. 82 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 2: It's like a contradictory emotions. 83 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 3: On the one hand, these are the values I was 84 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 3: raised on both by my parents, my grandparents, by my 85 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 3: youth movement, And it's the ideas of service. You should 86 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,159 Speaker 3: know yourself, coming from a family of who've given a 87 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 3: lot of service as well, your late father, yourself, when 88 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 3: one has to sometimes take a step back and do 89 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 3: what's not just good for oneself but for one society, indeed, 90 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 3: the Western civilization as a whole. 91 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:30,279 Speaker 1: The most terrifying moment you've had out in the field. 92 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 2: Tell me that was terrifying moment. It was probably right 93 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:34,679 Speaker 2: at the beginning. 94 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 3: Actually, I actually start my I recently wrote a book 95 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 3: about my service and about my unit, and I start 96 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 3: with this particular moment. Really soon about two months into 97 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 3: the war, from October November December twenty twenty three, we 98 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:53,479 Speaker 3: were called in to extract a engineering to commat engineering 99 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:55,599 Speaker 3: unit to come under fire. And what had happened is 100 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:59,799 Speaker 3: some of the soldiers when the armored personnel. 101 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 2: Carrier when the door. 102 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 3: That door opened and RPG had been shot inside it 103 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 3: and there was a lot of soldiers with serious burns. 104 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:07,359 Speaker 2: We went in to extract them. When we went in, 105 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:08,799 Speaker 2: we ourselves came unto. 106 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:10,480 Speaker 3: Fire as well. There was you know, war is not 107 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 3: like you see in the films. It's not slow motion 108 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 3: with classical music. It's absolute pandemonium and chaos and noise 109 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 3: and screaming. So when you're going to take soldiers out 110 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 3: with themselves in a lot of pain and you'll have 111 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 3: to throw yourselves onto the ground because of've beencoming fire 112 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:25,840 Speaker 3: as well, it all becomes very very real when your 113 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 3: life just flashes in front of your eyes. 114 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:29,839 Speaker 2: But you have to compart to mentalize. You have to 115 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 2: be focused. 116 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:35,279 Speaker 1: How would you explain to a five year old, because 117 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: that is the intellectual level, and that might be offensive 118 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 1: to five year olds. If some of the people who 119 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:42,719 Speaker 1: try to demonize the idea, if how would you explain 120 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:46,280 Speaker 1: what you are fighting for to a five year old? 121 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 2: Well, the one word answer is freedom. 122 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 3: And just to expand slightly, what we are fighting for, 123 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 3: it's not just It's not just the microcosm of Israel 124 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:00,720 Speaker 3: against a Hamas or is on a against that Kizba 125 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:02,039 Speaker 3: lies on against Iran. 126 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 2: One has to take a step back and look at 127 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:04,480 Speaker 2: the macrocosm. 128 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 3: This is a war of Judeo Christian values against the 129 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:13,840 Speaker 3: dark demons of radical Islamic fundamentalism. 130 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 2: It's a war for the freedom of the world. 131 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,480 Speaker 3: It's a forces for five year old, it's the forces 132 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 3: of light against the forces of darkness. 133 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:20,840 Speaker 2: That's what it is. 134 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 1: Are you willing to die for that cause? Clearly? 135 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 3: Absolutely? When I was eighteen, let you little story. When 136 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:29,919 Speaker 3: I was eighteen had to swear an oath. When we 137 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,920 Speaker 3: finish our infantry basic training and you get a rifle 138 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:34,840 Speaker 3: and your religious book in front of the western wall. 139 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 3: But I just say your religious book because not everyone 140 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 3: serving with me is Jewish. We also have Christians, we 141 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 3: have Jews, we have Muslims, and everyone gets whatever their 142 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 3: book is, the Old Testament, the New Testament, the. 143 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 2: Quran, even and you have to swear an oath. 144 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:48,359 Speaker 3: And my Hebrew wasn't really up to scratch then, so 145 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:50,279 Speaker 3: I said, wow, this is quite serious, right, let me 146 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 3: have a look at the words. 147 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:53,360 Speaker 2: They showed me the words, and every eighteen year old 148 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:55,359 Speaker 2: combat soldier is or swears an oath, and in it 149 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 2: is the following sentence I promised. I promised to God, 150 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 2: the people of Israel and Jews wherever there are in 151 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 2: the world. And if necessary, the word in heb was 152 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 2: lhakrev et nafshi to sacrifice my soul. So heavy eighteen 153 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 2: year old who volunteers for fun Lane combat unit swears 154 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 2: an oath and I really mean it as well. Some 155 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 2: things are bigger than just yourself. 156 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: You said your family are immensely proud that. I don't 157 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: doubt that fact at all. Are you proud of yourself? 158 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 1: Do you have moments in between where you sit there 159 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 1: and think about the contribution that you've made. 160 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 3: It's well, your first person as the answer is yes, 161 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 3: I really I feel honored. I mean, I come from 162 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 3: a family where I'm the one side had fighters. My 163 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 3: late grandfather was named after Ford in the British Army 164 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 3: in North Africa and Italy in World War Two, actually 165 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 3: with Australian troops with the Eighth Army, and he was 166 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 3: a highly decorated veteran and an animatic as well in 167 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 3: the infantry. 168 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 2: So I have the fighting genes. 169 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 3: On the other hand, my mother's family, my mother comes 170 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 3: from a family where her parents were sole survivors from 171 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 3: the Holocaust. Grandma on that side of some hungry my 172 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 3: grandfather from Poland and the rest the family was killed 173 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 3: simply because the state of Israel came around ten years 174 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 3: too late, in nineteen forty eight or not nineteen thirty eight. 175 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 3: So to come from that family when one side have fighters, 176 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 3: when I'm coming on that tradition and central service. On 177 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 3: the other side, I have the victims who were victims 178 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 3: because there us no state of no army. I feel 179 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 3: honored to be living at this junction in history where 180 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 3: we are in charge of our own destiny. 181 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: You get to see the enemy up close. Not a 182 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 1: lot of people do. The level of evil and depravity. 183 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 1: Can you explain that to me from your perspective. I 184 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 1: went and visited Israel after October seven, and what I 185 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 1: saw I don't have words to explain. And the video 186 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 1: clips that they shot themselves and children in rooms burned alive. 187 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 1: It's hard to explain to people who who are not 188 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 1: evil that that level of evil exists. What do you 189 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 1: see in the enemy you're trying to defeat. 190 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 3: Well, first of all, I'd like to thank you for 191 00:08:57,520 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 3: coming to visit as well, because the only real way 192 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 3: to understand is really going on here is to come, 193 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:02,839 Speaker 3: is to come, is. 194 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:07,200 Speaker 4: To see the raw footage which the Hamas themselves talk 195 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:10,720 Speaker 4: glorifying their their slaughter and their murder, to speak with 196 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 4: the victims, and that's a real way to under someone's. 197 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 2: Really going on here. 198 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 3: So thank you for you for coming as well, which 199 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,199 Speaker 3: is you did much better job than your foreign minister. 200 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:24,840 Speaker 1: So don't even start me, doctor, don't start me. 201 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:28,680 Speaker 2: So let's talk well. Being in guards itself, I've seen 202 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 2: things that just begar believe. 203 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,839 Speaker 3: Literally, almost every house we go into there's a hidden 204 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:35,200 Speaker 3: arms class, usually in the children's bedroom. We know if 205 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:36,839 Speaker 3: we flip up the bed, that's where we're going to 206 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 3: find the RPGs and the rifles. Almost every single house 207 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 3: has a copy of Hitler's Mind Camp. It's like standard 208 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:45,960 Speaker 3: reading in Guards and translate to Arabic. It's a best 209 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 3: seller actually. And even when you go to places are 210 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 3: supposedly innocent, like once we went to the early on 211 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:53,719 Speaker 3: in the war when they went to the university in 212 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 3: Guards at now university think as the institute of tertiary education. 213 00:09:58,040 --> 00:09:59,320 Speaker 2: In this case it wasn't one. 214 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 3: It wasn't There was three bomb making labs and two 215 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 3: terror tunnels underneath. 216 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 2: So nothing is what it seems there. 217 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:10,080 Speaker 3: It's an entire society, there's been poisoned, entire society that 218 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 3: are It's basically it's a death cult like in Juda's Immer, 219 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 3: something called the sanctity of life and Judea Christian values 220 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:18,560 Speaker 3: where we value life for me, raise our families to 221 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:22,079 Speaker 3: value life. And fortunately, what I've seen of the enemy 222 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 3: is literally a cult that worships death and praises death. 223 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 3: And you see it, yeah, you see it, you feel it, 224 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 3: you hear it. 225 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 1: In some ways it feels like the hostages were a 226 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 1: lifetime ago, and in other ways it feels like only 227 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 1: yesterday we were praying and you were fighting for their return. 228 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:47,080 Speaker 1: What was that experience like for you knowing your people 229 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 1: were in Gaza and you were part of efforts to 230 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 1: try and save them. 231 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 3: So my particular team was involved in plenty efforts because 232 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 3: we were there. 233 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:58,319 Speaker 2: You know, when you know what hit the fan. But 234 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:00,679 Speaker 2: it felt us that they were our fans, our brothers 235 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:02,719 Speaker 2: and sisters, and we didn't care the hostages like where 236 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 2: the Jewish hostages are Thai hostages or the bedroom Muslim hostages. 237 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 2: We just felt that they were our family. 238 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:10,319 Speaker 3: Just like in my particular unit, we don't ask people 239 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 3: what's your religion, what your political leanings. 240 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 2: Once you put this green. 241 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:15,720 Speaker 3: Uniform on, we're here to serve and we're here to 242 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 3: just like whenever our rescue, whenever we our unit, I'm 243 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:21,079 Speaker 3: just part of a team, rescue soldiers. We feel like 244 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 3: we're rescuing family, literally family, and that's what we felt about. 245 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:25,240 Speaker 2: The hostages as well. 246 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 3: And when they were rescued, like everyone in our unit, 247 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 3: i've seen grown men, have seen a lot of a 248 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 3: lot of conflict, a lot about or we're just crying 249 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 3: like babies were just that happy. 250 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:36,760 Speaker 2: We really felt like this tremendous sense of relief. 251 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 1: What moment stays with you. From our hostage perspective. 252 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:47,480 Speaker 3: I think it was the rescue of Noahga Money. We 253 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 3: were there in the in the field at the time, 254 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 3: and and just there was first of all, there were 255 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 3: so many of our forces there as well. Everybody was 256 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 3: making an effort s sea land and when the boys 257 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 3: were rescued it it was a touch and go moments 258 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 3: when the rescue vehicle broke down and one of the 259 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 3: leading commanders was mortally wounded going in. Just the tension 260 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 3: was palpable as it was happening, and the sense of 261 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:13,599 Speaker 3: belief afterward just washed over all of us. It was 262 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 3: almost like a massive adrenaline rush. Then afterwards it took 263 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:18,960 Speaker 3: it. It took like hours for just to calm down. We 264 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 3: just couldn't believe it pulled it off. But it was very, 265 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 3: very just to be there at the time, to witness system, 266 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 3: to be part of history was very humbling and very 267 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 3: beautiful moment. 268 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 1: I know I have to let you go. You have 269 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 1: much more important work to do. But what I want 270 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 1: to tell my audience about, and we'll put up a 271 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:39,680 Speaker 1: link to this is your incredible book. And what I 272 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 1: love so much about people like you and doing things 273 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: like this is that you humanize the IDEF and all 274 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 1: of you. You said before, one life that you save 275 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:52,679 Speaker 1: is a universe. Your life is a universe to the 276 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 1: people who love you and around you. I would love 277 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 1: for you to tell my audience why they should get 278 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,360 Speaker 1: this book and read it. And secondly your message to 279 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 1: people about who the IDF is as a final thought, 280 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 1: I would really really appreciate. 281 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:09,560 Speaker 2: Okay. 282 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 3: So I thought that during my service, I was living 283 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:15,320 Speaker 3: in such historical times that I needed to make a 284 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 3: record of it. So I wasn't actually writing for Youtubo 285 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 3: Pusy working, So I'd take a lot of voice notes 286 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:25,199 Speaker 3: or of pictures whenever I could. And brother, can you 287 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:26,959 Speaker 3: hear me, I'm getting a bit of difficulty with the 288 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 3: service here. 289 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:30,439 Speaker 1: Now I've got you clear, loud and clear. 290 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:35,200 Speaker 2: Okay, great, have to edit that fit out so it's real. 291 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 2: So I thought I was living through really historical times. 292 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 3: I was with such wonderful special people that I needed 293 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:43,679 Speaker 3: to make a record of this, And so I basically 294 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 3: realized either what we're doing from a scientific point, he 295 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 3: was incredible. Like before nineteen fifty fourth example, no one 296 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:53,200 Speaker 3: thought you could run a sub form minute mile. Then 297 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 3: Roger Banister came along till we came along. Long thought 298 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:59,839 Speaker 3: you could actually take a wounded soldier from the battlefield 299 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:01,719 Speaker 3: to the oh Are in less than an hour. It's 300 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 3: called the golden hour, and with food that we can 301 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 3: do it a with tremendous technology. We have technology that 302 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:09,959 Speaker 3: it's just like startup nature stuff from from uh from 303 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 3: We use real blood in the field, which you know 304 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 3: what the military in the world does. We use all 305 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:18,560 Speaker 3: sorts of scanning, electronics and and doctors would come in 306 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 3: from Australian military and from the British military and from 307 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 3: the natives, just exactly how we do it. And I 308 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 3: thought that we need to make a record of that, 309 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 3: plus the absolute selflessness of the men and women in 310 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 3: my unit, because could luck give a shout out thirty 311 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 3: percent of unit to actually women in our unit as well, doctors, paramedics, 312 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 3: combat medics, fighting soldiers, and I really wanted to highlight 313 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:40,120 Speaker 3: that their selfless. I thought I had a crazy story 314 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 3: that I pushed my way back into the army the 315 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 3: age of fifty five. 316 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:44,360 Speaker 2: But it turns out that everyone has a story. Everyone 317 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 2: left behind wife. 318 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 3: Husband, kids, their lives basically to selflessly defect defend Western values, 319 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 3: and I wanted to make a recording of that. 320 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:55,960 Speaker 2: So what this what this book does, very briefly. 321 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 3: It's mainly illustrated with a lot of photos, is that 322 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 3: I actually, you do make a record of the men 323 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 3: and women in the unit, the work that we do, 324 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 3: and most importantly that I want people to understand that 325 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 3: it's not just a battle of Israel against his enemies 326 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 3: and a small scale. This is a bout against demonic 327 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 3: death cults. This is a battle for Western civilization in 328 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:16,400 Speaker 3: such a momentous time in history. 329 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 2: I wanted to have a visual recording of it and 330 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 2: also a verbal recording which as well, and that was 331 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 2: a motivating factor to write the book. 332 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 3: But the actual catalyst was happened last year when I 333 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:30,480 Speaker 3: was reunited at a concert with one of the more 334 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 3: high profile soldiers we'd saved, a guy called Idan Ahmedi, 335 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 3: who's also the staff founder and a top singer in Israel. 336 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 2: So after that moment went viral, the reuniting moment, the 337 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 2: publisher's actually, let's. 338 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 1: Have a look at that right now, hold it, let's 339 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: have a look. 340 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 5: Israeli singer e Done Ahmedi, who was critically wounded in 341 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 5: operations in Gaza and has since recovered returned to the 342 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 5: stage to sing once again. But this reunion he was 343 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 5: probably not expecting. Standing in the crowd of his show 344 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 5: in jurwus him recently, he saw a familiar face, the 345 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 5: combat medic who saved his life on the battlefield. 346 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 2: So the publishers of Gefferent Books actually contacted me and said, wow, like, 347 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 2: we'd like to hear about how you came to being 348 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:57,120 Speaker 2: a unit of safety that I met who was like 349 00:16:57,440 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 2: the number one guy in Isra. If you ran for 350 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 2: five minister, he would win tomorrow. And also when he 351 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 2: after year and a half of. 352 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 3: The abilitation, I mean he was it was closest to 353 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:11,879 Speaker 3: being dead as you could possibly be when our un 354 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 3: a god to him. But after year and a half 355 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 3: he announce she's doing concerts again, and he sold thirty 356 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:17,919 Speaker 3: thousand tickets in ten minutes. 357 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 2: That's how popular he is. 358 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:21,960 Speaker 3: So after this reunion went viral that the publisher contact 359 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 3: being said that we need to hear about this unit 360 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 3: we can do about the people we need about what 361 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:25,640 Speaker 3: you do. 362 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 2: And so that really was a catalyst that that maybe 363 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 2: get all. 364 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 3: My notes and thoughts together and sit down and write 365 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:32,359 Speaker 3: out of this book, even though I was kind of 366 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:35,280 Speaker 3: otherwise occupied doing other things. 367 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:39,200 Speaker 1: Someone very special features in this book too. 368 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:43,480 Speaker 2: Oh mg, I recognize that person. So the end of 369 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:47,400 Speaker 2: my book out what I do. It's an absolute pleasure. 370 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 2: I actually heard you talk and tell off as well, 371 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 2: and that's where that photo was taken. And you can 372 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 2: see we're matches in that photo. 373 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just horrific angle of me. I've got 374 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 1: to I mean, I know, in the big scheme of things, 375 00:17:58,280 --> 00:17:59,119 Speaker 1: that doesn't matter. 376 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:02,359 Speaker 3: It's okay, we appreciate the fact you were wearing that 377 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 3: olive green and you have that yellow male partisher thing. 378 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:08,240 Speaker 3: I noticed all of that, answer to myself. But the 379 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 3: real thing is that at the end of my book, 380 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:13,639 Speaker 3: I really put an appreciation to people like you who 381 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:15,960 Speaker 3: don't extensively have skin in the game. I mean people 382 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:19,800 Speaker 3: like yourself, doctor Smurrie, Richard Kemp who are not Jewish. 383 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:22,120 Speaker 3: We are not just ready, but we realized that there's 384 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 3: good and are's bad in this world. And you you 385 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 3: step up to the front, to the really really to 386 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 3: the front lines yourselves and make the case for the 387 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:32,560 Speaker 3: side of good, for the side of light. And that's 388 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:34,879 Speaker 3: why you are featured in my book because you're one 389 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:37,400 Speaker 3: of these warriors who stands up and tells the world 390 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 3: what's wrong and what's right. 391 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 2: Sometimes, you know, the big Live. 392 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:46,920 Speaker 1: Doctor pardn't absolutely we continue to push back with truth. Now, 393 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 1: do you know what. I don't even need you to 394 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:51,520 Speaker 1: answer the question regarding who the IDF is because this 395 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 1: interview has shown people who the IDF is. You are 396 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:57,239 Speaker 1: the greatest example of who and what the IDF is. 397 00:18:57,520 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 1: I thank you so much for your time. We are 398 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 1: starting to lose you a little with reception. Now stay safe. 399 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:05,360 Speaker 1: Thank you so so much for everything that you do. 400 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:07,879 Speaker 1: And the IDF is so lucky to have you, and 401 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:10,960 Speaker 1: Western civilization is so lucky to have the IDF. 402 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you so much.