What we were seeing was impossible. It was the unimaginable. And I think that was part of the state of shock

that we were at October 7, but now we are transformed Israelis. So anyone that has visited

Israel, ever since October 7 has noticed and realized that Israelis post October 7th were not the same people.

Part of the transformation that we're going through is for the first time in my life, in my generation's life, we could

imagine something that we couldn't ever imagine before. We can imagine a reality where Israel

doesn't exist. That's what October 7th did to us. It reminded us of something

that we've all forgotten, that this existence of the Jewish sovereignty of the

state of Israel is fragile. And like any individual that went through a near-death

experience and then you got your life back, you're forever transformed because you know not to take your life for granted, I think that's

what we're going through as a nation. We went through a near death experience and now we are

different Israelis because now our sovereignty, our statehood, will not be taken for granted anymore. It's 1130 p.m. on

1130 p.m. on Tuesday, March 5th in New York City, it's 630 AM on Wednesday, March 6th in Israel

as Israelis begin their day.

Mika Goodman is on the speed dial of a number of Israeli political leaders from right to left,

but especially those on the center left and the center right.

He is a polymath, a podcaster, and one of Israel's most influential public

intellectuals, having written books ranging from biblical lessons for the modern age to Israel's

geopolitics. One book in particular had an outsized impact, at least on me and

I think on many others inside Israel in terms of its framing of the conundrum that Israel has been in vis-à-vis the Palestinians since

1967. The book is called Catch 67, the left, the right, and the legacy of the Six Day

War. I highly recommend it.

Not only have all of his books been best-sellers in Israel, but he essentially created a new genre,

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