COMING HOME - with Yossi Klein Halevi & Wendy Singer
Call Me Back - with Dan Senor
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🗓️ 20 January 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I managed to tell her how much I love her and hold her hand for a few seconds. |
| 0:10.0 | There's no words to describe what I'm feeling right now. Yes, yes. Yes. |
| 0:23.6 | After 471 days of war, a ceasefire is now in place in Gaza, |
| 0:44.3 | and the first three hostages to be freed in this phase of the deal have now come out. |
| 0:51.3 | Romi, Emily, and Dron in Israel, are in the Bait. |
| 1:01.1 | They are going to begin the long journey of recovery. |
| 1:07.3 | The big question, though, is whether phase one of the deal, this six-week ceasefire, will be followed by phase two, a permanent end to the war, the withdrawal of all Israeli forces from Gaza, and all hostages finally coming home. |
| 1:25.6 | It's 12 o'clock p.m. on Sunday, January 19th, here in New York City. |
| 1:31.3 | It is 7 o'clock p.m. on Sunday, January 19th, in Israel, as a ceasefire and hostage deal has come |
| 1:41.3 | into effect this morning, and Israelis embraced the first hostages to come |
| 1:47.9 | through from Gaza, Romy Gonen, Emily Damari, and Daron Steinbrecher, three young women who |
| 1:56.6 | were taken hostage to Gaza 471 days ago on October 7th, 2023. |
| 2:05.6 | I know that Jews in Israel, but also all over the world, have been glued to screens |
| 2:12.0 | watching these images today. |
| 2:14.3 | And one message that just came across my screen was that Romi, Emily, and Daron |
| 2:20.6 | are all with their mothers right now. This is a complicated moment filled with joy and agony, |
| 2:30.9 | relief, and fury, courage, and dread. |
| 2:35.0 | A lot of speculation has been driving a lot of the conversations in recent days and emotions |
| 2:43.0 | about why this deal was agreed upon now, whether or not January 19th will effectively mark the end of the Gaza war and what the fallout |
| 2:53.7 | would be of that or maybe it is not the end of the war and what that means. And more than anything |
| 3:01.4 | today, there's a lot of anxiety, I think, about the fate of the rest of the hostages and that my impression is is palpable in Israel today and to help us get a sense for the mood in Israel today. |
| 3:14.4 | We are joined by two call me back regulars from Jerusalem, Yossi Klein-Halevi and Wendy Singer, both with the Shalom Hartman Institute. Yossi, in addition to being |
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