The spirit of a nation at war — with Wendy Singer

Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

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

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🗓️ 17 February 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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While there has been a lot of resentment inside Israel towards its political and security leadership, Israeli society has stepped up in ways sometimes impossible for me to describe. So, when I was in Israel, I asked Wendy Singer to join me for a conversation about what most Israelis are seeing and experiencing at the grassroots level, day-to-day, that we may not see. Wendy Singer is an advisor to several Israeli high-tech start-ups, including Re-Milk — https://www.remilk.com/ Wendy was the executive director of Start-Up Nation Central since its founding in 2013 — https://startupnationcentral.org/ Previously, she was the director of AIPAC’s Israel office for 16 years and served in AIPAC’s Washington office before immigrating to Israel in 1994. Earlier in her career, Wendy was a foreign policy advisor in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives.

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0:00.0	The way that the Millewim or the reserve store becomes, I think, profound, is if you just look,
0:06.4	if you're almost like in an airplane looking down into any Israeli city today,
0:12.0	360,000 people were just pulled out of their lives.
0:19.2	So just try to imagine a school where many of the male teachers are gone. The principal could be gone.
0:28.3	Try to imagine universities where a large percentage of the students are not there.
0:34.0	Try to imagine companies where a large percentage of the workers are not there.
0:40.0	From the CEO of a company all the way down to the person who cleans the floors.
0:45.0	Holes in everything that you're going to touch in the course of your daily life,
0:50.0	this large swath of the population that is at the front.
0:54.0	It's 5 p.m. on Friday,
1:09.8	5 p.m. on Friday, February 16th in New York City, Shabbat Shalom. It's midnight in Israel. I recently traveled back to the United States from Israel just before the daring and
1:16.4	improbable rescue of two Israeli hostages from Gaza.
1:21.2	The collective joy around their release has been a huge story inside Israel, but within the
1:25.9	same 24 hours in which Israeli society was welcoming home these hostages and celebrating
1:31.5	their release, another five milliwim, those are reserve soldiers who are
1:36.8	plucked out of their civilian lives to go serve in the war in Gaza, were killed. another five reservists were killed in some ways
1:46.6	these past few days have had a crush of activity around these two realities of
1:50.8	post-October 7th, the release and rescue of hostages and military
1:57.0	casualties. I have many sources in Israel who keep me up to date with the war effort with politics with the economy
2:04.6	all sources that I hope help you to the listeners of the call me back
2:09.5	podcast but there is one source that keeps me up to date with life in Israel.
2:16.0	The intangible social and emotional condition that can be felt all around the country since October 7th just hanging in the air like a
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