6.30 a.m. a crazy barrage of mortars falls on our neighborhood. And then we start to hear something

we've never heard before during our years in Achalous. We start to hear automatic gunfire and at first

it's a little distant and then it gets closer. It's like now it's inside the kibbutz, then it's in

our neighborhood and 7.15 a.m. basically we've got a cell of Hamas terrorists

on our front porch firing through our living room window into the house and trying to break in.

Everybody's writing, I have a terrorist in my house, I have a terrorist in my backyard,

they're trying to break into my home, I see them breaking into my neighbor's home, and you understand the magnitude of it.

It's not one sale of five terrorists who are just outside our house.

You realize we are being conquered and everybody's asking one question.

Where's the military? The It's 745 PM on Wednesday, September 24th.

Here in New York City, it is 2.45 AM.

On Wednesday, September 25th in Israel as Israelis get ready to start their day.

But this israelis here with me in New York City.

A meir Tibbon, who is the author of this book, The Gates of Gaza, a story of betrayal, survival, and hope

in Israel's borderlands, which we are going to talk about today. We're going to have a

whole conversation about his book, his day on October 7th as we arrive at the one-year anniversary, the Grimm

one-year anniversary of October 7th and we will get to at the end we have some

questions that many of you have submitted which will get to some

of which deal with current events including what's happening up in Israel's north.

But mostly I just want to welcome Amir who is a journalist, a long-time journalist, a long-time

friend from Haritz newspaper. He's a prolific writer not only in Haritz, but he also wrote a biography of Abu Mazin a number of years ago.

And I really just want to welcome them not only to this conversation, but to this amazing

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