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Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

Israel’s Near Death Experience - with Micah Goodman

Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

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Society, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Israel, News Commentary, News, Politics, Elections, Palestine, Dan Senor, Government

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Micah Goodman is on the speed-dial of a number of Israeli political leaders – from right to left, but especially 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 in terms of its framing of the conundrum that Israel has been in with the Palestinians since 1967. That book is called Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War, Not only have all of his books been bestsellers in Israel, he essentially created a new genre; books that bring core texts of Jewish thought to a general, secular audience. But Micah has a new book, which he wrote in a four-month sprint following October 7. His new book is called ‘The Eighth Day’, in which Micah tries to understand the implications of the nation’s trauma and what it means for the other ‘day after’ (not the ‘day after’ in Gaza, but the ‘day after’ inside Israel). What does this moment mean for Israelis? How will 10/07 re-shape Israeli society…and its politics?This is the first interview Micah has done about his new book, which will be published (in Hebrew) at the end of March. Micah Goodman’s books: Catch-67 — https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/catch-67-micah-goodman/1128089735?ean=9780300248418 The Wondering Jew — https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-wondering-jew-micah-goodman/1136574622?ean=9780300252248

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

0:06.5

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

0:11.2

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

0:18.0

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

0:24.9

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

0:30.3

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

0:36.0

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

0:41.1

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

0:46.2

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

0:56.0

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

1:01.6

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

1:19.0

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

1:27.7

as Israelis begin their day.

1:30.4

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

1:36.4

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

1:41.0

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

1:46.1

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

1:51.3

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

1:57.3

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

2:04.8

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

2:12.4

War. I highly recommend it.

2:14.7

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

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