Transcript
00:00
Beyond the wall, out of sight,
00:02
a massacre unfolds.
00:09
Summer, 2025
Israel
00:17
Should I hold you? Or can you walk yourself?
00:28
Mom, is that Gaza?
00:32
No, that's Sderot. Israel.
00:34
- Where is Gaza?
- On the other side. You'll see.
00:42
Look, over there at the end.
00:49
Behind the fence, there's an area with lots of broken buildings.
00:58
There's not much left to see because the IDF bombed it all.
01:07
Mom, why can't I see anything?
01:10
Because there are almost no buildings left.
01:16
Our army is fighting the terrorists that hide in the buildings.
01:25
Wow, how beautiful.
01:28
Beautiful? It's all been destroyed.
01:31
Come on, your turn.
01:34
Be careful.
01:42
Move it around. Can you see?
01:46
Everything is broken, but you see the fence and the tanks.
01:52
I see Gaza.
02:11
Come on. It's hot. Let's go home.
02:35
"The UN commission claims Israel has committed genocide in Gaza.
02:40
It says 4 of 5 genocidal acts defined by the UN have been met.
02:45
It also says remarks by Netanyahu, Gallant, and Herzog prove genocidal intent.
02:55
Israel firmly rejects the claims as false reporting.
03:01
Now to weather. Seasonal temperatures expected. That concludes the news."
04:24
Dorit, did I bring you a cup? Mickey, I think this one is yours.
04:33
- Do you feel prepared for the coming year?
- Not at all.
04:38
I haven't even decorated the class. The lock is broken, and it's a new room.
04:46
- So you're starting a new class.
- Yes, a remedial class this year.
04:53
The first couple of weeks are always a bit chaotic.
04:59
Until everything starts to take shape.
05:04
The first topic that I chose for the class is fake news.
05:10
We teach that as well.
05:14
The problem with fake news today is that everything is fake.
05:18
We used to teach journalism.
05:22
Don't trust the media, check the facts, and verify the truth.
05:28
But today, it's all fake.
05:32
There are so many media sources. What to believe?
05:38
You think one person's right.
05:41
Then you hear another and think "he's" right.
05:45
They take unrelated photos of sick children.
05:49
They broadcast them as if they were hungry.
05:54
It's mind control. And it's probably working on us.
06:02
We are trying to engage young people in our public diplomacy efforts.
06:08
To show the world that Israel is a country with a moral army.
06:13
We need to get them involved to help communicate.
06:20
We can't stand up to this flood of photos, many of which are likely fake.
06:29
And only the pain of one side is being communicated.
06:34
It's like October 7 never happened.
06:38
We used to bring the students to the World Press Photo exhibition.
06:47
I worked with a photographer who won first place.
06:54
But for two years now, the competition hasn't come to Israel at all.
07:00
Both years, the winning photos have been of Palestinian suffering.
07:08
One was a woman who held something that looked like a corpse.
07:14
It was wrapped in a shroud.
07:20
This year's winner was a photo of a Palestinian child with amputated hands.
07:27
I am not saying they are not suffering. Of course they are suffering.
07:31
But there is no mention of what Israel went through.
07:36
The world is not aware of the suffering of the Israelis.
07:40
No other country has experienced everyday life here.
07:51
This crazy chaos, the reality of these non-stop attacks and hatred.
08:02
But when pictures of Gaza emerge, people come to their conclusions.
08:09
The world sees that 'only' 2,500 or so people in Israel were killed and raped.
08:14
Compared to 60,000, 20,000 of them children.
08:18
So the calculation is simple for them.
08:20
The world is so biased. It's either ignorance or hatred of Jews.
08:26
Or I don't know what the reason is.
08:30
Any other country would have reacted more extremely than Israel.
08:36
No food handouts or bombing warnings.
08:42
They always claim civilians aren't involved.
08:45
But many who came on October 7 were civilians.
08:48
Even in the videos, there was someone in crutches.
08:53
Those 'uninvolved people' are actually very involved, and support Hamas.
09:00
You can't know who was and wasn't involved.
09:04
Exactly, that's why we have mercy and evacuate them.
09:08
- No other army would have done this.
- Just hit them hard.
09:14
They know this, and yet...
09:18
At this point, October 7 isn't being discussed at all.
09:23
Like it never happened.
09:25
The global news is all about Palestinian suffering.
09:29
Palestinian hunger, Palestinian genocide.
09:34
People have already forgotten how this whole story started.
09:39
We didn't want this war. We didn't start this war.
09:43
We didn't want the Palestinians to suffer.
10:12
Look what I was given. Coffee straight from Amman.
10:30
He was discharged just two weeks ago.
10:35
Pepperoni?
10:37
Half pepperoni. And half olive?
10:54
In memory of Tomer Nagar, one of the first to encounter Hamas in Kissufim.
11:01
He fought alone to save his friends and eliminated many terrorists.
11:06
He was killed after depleting his ammunition.
11:10
His family decided to honor his memory in a special way...
11:15
...through his hobby and love for beer, with "Tomer Beer."
11:21
Cheers.
11:25
Everyone here is a true friend.
11:27
We must never let that day be forgotten.
11:34
If that day didn't change your life, something's wrong with you.
11:39
There's no way it didn't change you.
11:43
- How do you mean?
- Take nothing for granted.
11:47
Relationships, political opinions, I can list tons of things.
11:54
I can tell you where it touched me.
11:57
- I'm walking around with a gun, it's madness.
- I didn't feel that kind of change.
12:02
It touched me and connected me to Judaism.
12:12
- Really?
- Yeah, an insane level, bro.
12:17
- More than before?
- Normally, you don't think about Jews all day.
12:24
Now, I actually feel a sense of obligation toward them.
12:28
When everything's normal and good, you don't think about it.
12:32
Then suddenly we get into some kind of distress.
12:36
- That's what you feel?
- Yes, to an insane level.
12:40
To every single Jewish person, I feel this crazy obligation.
12:44
- Not to every person?
- Any person, regardless.
12:50
But now, every Jew that I will meet will be welcome in my home.
12:55
How do you feel about the Arabs?
12:58
I've never had any problem with Arabs in general.
13:04
I know you don't have a problem. I'm asking what changed after October 7.
13:10
Things changed a bit. I want to hug the good ones.
13:15
We need to bring them even closer to us. We need to invest and cultivate and so on.
13:21
But extreme people, we should denounce. Do everything to keep them out.
13:31
- What do you mean by the "good ones?"
- People who love life and love humans.
13:37
That's it. It's simple.
13:40
But you realize the relationship dynamic has changed, right?
13:44
If you go to the hospital here in Israel...
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...you have a 99 percent chance of being treated by an Arab.
13:52
True, but the problem is...
13:55
You can't make generalizations like that.
13:58
I don't want to generalize or write off an entire population.
14:07
I feel like I need to know, to accept that they are different from us.
14:12
That their education and faith are different from mine.
14:16
There exists a scale of values, in Islam too, of respect and love of humanity.
14:23
For those people, sure, we'll sit down together.
14:28
But anyone else, we should throw out.
14:32
I used to know Arab society so well.
14:38
My ability to understand the culture and the language...
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...made me feel as if we were all together.
14:51
I let compassion and values lead me to see them as human beings.
14:59
Like we were saying before.
15:05
But eventually...
15:11
...that got us slapped in the face.
15:17
Honestly, I feel that from the feedback I hear.
15:23
'I've been on a crazy journey since October 7.'
15:28
Everyone must feel this way.
15:31
If you're standing in the same place, you're not part of the game anymore.
15:39
Think about the Nova music festival.
15:43
Just to isolate it as an event.
15:49
I would kill them all. I'd drop an atomic bomb on them.
15:54
Wouldn't you?
15:56
Bro, it's 6:30 in the morning, people are dancing.
15:59
And they are shooting, even into the toilets.
16:02
They are searching for people and filling them with bullets.
16:06
- 30 people lying on the bar, slaughtered.
- That video's hard to watch.
16:11
Wouldn't you go in and kill every last person in Gaza?
16:16
Even leaving the hostages aside. Wouldn't you do it?
16:21
Until you get there and realize there are people who are unrelated to this.
16:27
You open the folder to find 1,000 more with 1,000 files each. It's not that simple.
16:32
You say you will, until you're actually there.
16:37
Everyone here has experienced enormous pain.
16:41
I'm just saying that what's happening there also hurts me.
16:47
But I also know it's the right thing to do.
16:50
Listen, I'll tell you something.
16:52
Gaza is a problem of the world. Not just our problem.
16:55
It's not about right or wrong. Terrible things are happening on all sides.
17:05
But it's either your son or another's. You don't have a choice.
17:15
I don't want our kids to fight again.
17:20
- Right, but what's the solution?
- We must continue till the end.
17:25
- What do you mean?
- There's also a moral distortion by the world.
17:29
No matter what you do, it won't help. Almost everyone will still be against us.
17:39
So tell me, what's the solution?
17:42
It's impossible to eliminate Hamas. You know that better than anyone here.
17:47
So what is the solution?
17:49
Give me one solution.
17:52
I am still asking myself that question. I have no answer.
17:57
I know you don't. I'm just saying you should understand the situation.
18:00
It's either October 6 or October 7. There is no middle ground.
18:05
- Well, what is October 7?
- What is October 7?
18:08
The end of Hamas. You go in and you fight and fight.
18:12
But what do you mean by "until there is no Hamas?"
18:15
There is still ISIS, there are still Nazis.
18:18
We control 70 percent of Gaza. We should control 100 percent.
18:23
Erase the Gaza Strip. Kill twice the people. Some will leave.
18:29
Then, we'll reach every corner.
18:35
- Doing that won't free the hostages.
- Of course not, they will die.
18:41
People always talk about "military victory."
18:45
- But what does victory actually look like?
- I don't buy their pain.
18:51
Why must we be in pain while, for them, it doesn't hurt enough?
18:58
- Just say Hamas.
- Why do I have to name them?
19:05
Gaza, as an entity.
19:08
I don't know if all Gazans don't feel pain.
19:12
But if they were hurt, they would be acting differently.
19:15
I wake up, see videos of hostages, and think, "we have to blow them all up."
19:20
The next day, I see images from their side and it's painful.
19:26
I don't feel for them at all.
19:29
- It hurts me in a human way.
- But it doesn't hurt me.
19:33
Because I know we have no other way.
19:39
Like he said, if they don't feel enough pain to stop, why should we?
19:43
This should be a global problem. Not just our problem.
19:48
It's a problem of the entire world.
19:53
So they are meant to die, and that's great.
20:00
Soul type D, in this world just to die.
20:05
I won't put on a tortured tone and pretend that I care.
20:57
Hurry! Bring flashlights.
21:03
Please, save my father.
21:24
What happened here on October 7 was an unprecedented disaster.
21:29
This has never happened before in our country, our homes.
21:35
We went through the most horrible holocaust possible.
21:40
But now we must stand tall.
21:43
This was the Sderot police station. The usual defenses were not enough.
21:50
Artillery, guns, grenades, bombs...
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...were not enough to defeat the terrorists who barricaded here.
21:57
So the district commander decided to bring a tank in.
22:01
It rolled through the streets. I remember hearing it from our shelter.
22:09
It's crazy. It's stressful. It shakes the house.
22:14
I'll give you a few minutes to take pictures.
22:18
We'll turn our attention to business, to hope, to growth.
22:22
- We have about five or six food stops.
- How many?
22:26
- Five or six.
- That's all?
22:30
Eat it all and I'll give you whatever you want.
22:33
Let's see after the third stop.
22:36
First stop: eat, enjoy, but don't stuff yourself.
22:49
The owner here is called Ohad.
22:51
He lives in Nir Am, right next to Sderot.
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He was part of the Nir Am emergency room. A hero of October 7.
23:02
He made explosive bottles at home because they ran out of ammunition and weapons.
23:09
For his pizza, he went on a culinary journey around the world...
23:12
...to understand the flavors, what Israelis like, what kind of dough works best.
23:17
It's a special dough that requires hard work.
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The cheeses come both in strong flavors and simpler flavors such as mozzarella.
23:44
Cheers.
24:06
In our area, opinions skew more to the right.
24:10
I think among teachers, maybe 60 percent or even 70 percent are right-leaning.
24:20
Since October 7, opinions have obviously become much more extreme.
24:28
In class, students on the left are really afraid to speak their mind.
24:36
They are teenagers, so they're generally much more dichotomous.
24:41
They tend to decide everything instantly.
24:44
I've felt the students become much more right-wing.
24:48
After October 7, especially among the Jewish population, there was real fear.
24:53
A feeling we could no longer tolerate.
24:58
We couldn't even listen to the Arabic language.
25:04
A kind of self-isolation. Now it's starting to shift a bit.
25:08
But I don't think it'll go back to how it used to be.
25:13
The population in Gaza is educated to hate.
25:18
Their curriculum educates them to hate.
25:23
They say we are the devil.
25:26
How can you have peace like this?
25:33
Their hatred towards us is very strong.
25:38
We, on the contrary, recognize them.
25:40
We recognize that there are Palestinians and that they live in their own areas.
25:46
But they do not recognize the State of Israel. They hate us.
25:50
And that's the reason for all these years of terror and killing.
25:54
What country allows the enemy to come right up to the border?
26:02
They send children to the fence because they know we won't shoot.
26:11
So, they come again and again.
26:14
Until finally, they attacked on October 7.
26:18
We are bombing Gaza with humanitarian aid. Food, food, food.
26:23
Gaza is still photographed as if it were hungry.
26:27
The ones who are really starving are the Israeli hostages.
26:33
They are really going through a holocaust. They are really starving.
26:39
I just can't stand seeing it.
26:45
That people were dragged away from here and treated this way.
26:51
Where is the Red Cross? Where are they?
26:55
I'm thinking back over what we were taught in university.
27:00
They are the ones who suffer. It's always about their misery.
27:05
They have been refugees for 75 years.
27:10
A people needs to make an effort to get out of its situation.
27:15
But they don't do it.
27:19
The whole world is talking about this lie of the famine in Gaza.
27:23
But it's clear that a lot of them are not in a state of famine.
27:30
After October 7, I realized my 12th-graders will be enlisting in a few more months.
27:37
How do they feel that we have such terrible enemies around us?
27:44
They said: To defend our country, we're ready to go tomorrow.
27:52
It was, and still is, an obligatory war.
27:56
It is simply to defend our country and to regain the deterrence.
28:04
I really feel that we are a country in trauma.
28:09
This trauma will not end until this war is over.
28:16
In the beginning, we really all rallied.
28:19
We were all in favor, no division.
28:22
Now the war has dragged on for two years.
28:30
900 soldiers have been killed, and some people are saying "enough."
28:37
Meanwhile, Hamas is hardening their positions. Unwilling to return the hostages.
28:43
Gaza is a hornet's nest. An island of terrorists.
28:48
The hostages who returned from Gaza say that there's no distinction.
28:54
It's not Hamas and innocents.
28:58
They are all terrorists, from the youngest to the oldest.
29:07
Each person plays their role.
29:10
People get killed in war even though we try very hard...
29:15
...giving them advance notices and moving populations.
29:20
But despite everything, this is a war and innocent people are killed.
29:26
As much as you can call them 'innocent.'
29:29
So, to come and say that we are committing genocide is just a huge lie.
29:35
Our government's policies may be causing harm. Perhaps.
29:44
We may have found another way where fewer innocents are harmed.
29:52
But that's a different discussion. It's not an issue of genocide.
29:58
If we'd really wanted to commit genocide, this war would have ended in two months.
30:03
Gaza is a small place. Just two million people.
30:07
If we'd really wanted to commit the systematic genocide of 2 million people...
30:13
...it would have ended a long time ago.
30:16
Our army is so moral. We've moved populations.
30:21
It's hard for Israelis to talk about other issues that are not related to war.
30:25
Let's talk about something really painful: F.C. Maccabi Netanya's pitiful season.
30:42
Do you want cabbage?
30:49
Have some sweet potato.
30:52
No, I don't want that.
30:55
You have to have some bread.
30:59
No sweet potato?
31:01
No. Just this.
31:05
Only this? Only meat?
31:11
Now Dad's back from duty you need to sleep in your own bed.
31:18
Do you know how long he was gone?
31:22
A long time.
31:24
- Two years.
- That's right, two years.
31:32
A reserve fighter I know came to my office.
31:35
He'd been in Gaza for two months.
31:39
I asked him, what are you doing there?
31:41
He says he goes around booby-trapping houses to destroy them.
31:46
Because they want to push the Gaza Strip back.
31:52
It's too expensive to bomb thousands of houses.
31:56
So, they explode them one by one.
32:03
He goes in, the engineering team sets the charges, and they blow it up.
32:09
Then they move to the next house.
32:12
During all this they are being shot at with missiles and firearms.
32:19
So it's like, you enlisted and that's what you're doing?
32:29
Wait, the pizza has arrived. Much more important.
32:34
I don't know what the endgame is. You say Hamas shouldn't rule in Gaza.
32:41
And you say we need to bring back as many hostages as possible.
32:44
Those are the two most important things, right?
32:47
But you understand that militarily, the two goals contradict each other.
32:54
Politically, they can coexist, but it won't happen.
33:00
So what's the winning ball in the basket? That's unclear.
33:08
Have we ever had a 'slam dunk' victory?
33:13
Unlike past wars, we're not in a war of survival now, bro.
33:21
We had a war of survival after October 7.
33:24
- No, it just "felt" like it.
- We had a real survival war, damn it.
33:33
Listen, the Yom Kippur War was survival for the State of Israel, period.
33:42
Come on, let's celebrate the hunger in Gaza.
33:49
That's actually funny.
33:51
You'll be on a no-fly list.
33:55
There is starvation in Gaza, so we eat.
34:07
This is for later on.
34:13
This is an English classroom. It seems like it didn't end so well for them.
34:24
Man, there are a lot of gunshots here.
35:29
As a forum, we need to lead the country toward a decisive resolution.
35:41
We will keep marking the water pipelines.
35:46
This is one of the keys to victory over a terrorist organization.
35:51
We have provided huge amounts of food. They have no shortage.
35:54
For electricity, they have generators and solar panels.
35:58
They know how to live off the grid. They are Arabs.
36:02
But water is the critical point of existence.
36:08
Even if you hunger strike, you still need water.
36:12
Once water runs out, you are done within three days.
36:16
And that's the point.
36:18
When you control the air, you can bomb the wells and water sources, and it's over.
36:26
Water pipelines are the only things under our control.
36:29
Unlike the humanitarian aid that we unsuccessfully tried to block.
36:34
Unlike electricity or internet that we can't switch off.
36:37
We know where the water is.
36:42
The point is to create an understanding among the Israeli public.
36:45
To see whether the government...
36:47
...is moving towards a decisive outcome, look at its actions.
36:51
This is the most fundamental, critical step.
36:54
We've entered Jabalia ten times.
36:56
Has that been decisive? Clearly not.
36:59
We've entered Gaza City twice. Has that been decisive? No.
37:03
The moment we close the water pipes, that's our decisive statement.
37:08
- If they won't close the pipes, we will.
- It's the only way to achieve a result.
37:15
That's what I'm telling you.
37:18
If they don't want a decisive result, why would they close the water pipes?
37:22
That's the principle we will teach the Israeli public next Tuesday.
37:27
The water keeps flowing? Then the soldiers are being sent in for nothing.
37:31
The water flow stops? Then we are heading towards a decisive result.
37:35
- But you aren't really closing it.
- They'll fix it right up.
37:42
- And what if you explode the pipeline?
- They'll fix it after two hours.
37:47
And you'll end up in prison.
37:50
Is it 'protection' or is it a no-harm guarantee?
37:53
If they continue to do in Gaza City what they did in Beit Hanoun...
37:58
...we can rest easy for a few good years.
38:01
But what's the point of pushing it back a few years, months, days?
38:06
It was 50 years between the Yom Kippur War and October 7.
38:12
Will it happen again in another 50 years?
38:15
As long as we don't put everyone in camps like the Jews...
38:19
...that's the only method available to us.
38:22
So a 'mowing the grass' strategy?
38:24
Until there is a decisive outcome.
38:27
What is this decisive outcome? A white flag?
38:32
- A white flag is Hamas...
- ...giving up and leaving.
38:42
How do they communicate better than us?
38:48
One, it's always much easier for the victim's side.
38:51
And two, they don't live in the same world of morality as ours.
38:57
You wouldn't just post a picture of a kid and say that he's starving...
39:02
...when you know he's not.
39:05
But just so you know, with all that said, I was proud to put on my uniform.
39:10
I mean, since October 7, all I wanted was to put on the uniform.
39:16
It tortures me that I didn't take my car out on October 7.
39:20
If I had a weapon, I would have 100 percent gone.
39:27
- In hindsight.
- Not in hindsight!
39:30
He means in hindsight.
39:34
I am saying also that back then I didn't have a gun.
39:39
But what if I had an M16?
39:43
Going as part of the military is a totally different story to acting as a civilian.
39:51
I'm glad that I have my duffel bag.
39:54
If something happens, I head to the unit, I use my card, and I'm in.
39:59
I can't believe this happened, you know. I'm so angry inside.
40:06
It gives me such peace to have that.
40:11
I'll bring the watermelon.
40:20
Give me a kiss. Do you want to sleep in my bed?
40:25
Here? Will you fall asleep here?
40:32
I saw that video, and it brought out this kind of evil in me.
40:38
I do feel bad about what is happening there.
40:43
But I see one hostage video and it's October 7 all over again.
40:50
I used to think it was enough.
40:53
We need to finish the job. Bring it to the end.
40:57
I have a question.
40:59
The Saudis could have taken Gaza and fixed everything.
41:03
In 20 or 30 years, there would be a Palestinian state.
41:07
For or against?
41:08
The current government cannot declare a Palestinian state.
41:13
Exactly. That's the reason why this conflict is not ending.
41:18
That's why it falls to us.
41:21
From their perspective, the plan worked. That's what Hamas is saying too.
41:25
We kidnapped your people. We f****d you up.
41:28
Now shut up and sign for a ceasefire.
41:31
They get to establish a Palestinian state. The other countries are okay with that.
41:36
- So the attack worked out for them.
- I can't stand it.
41:40
Why would someone want to deal with this human trash in Gaza?
41:51
We're saddled with something no one is willing to touch.
42:00
Delicious. Mango from the Sea of Galilee.
42:06
Give mangoes to the hostages. Treat them with all the sugar.
42:32
It's supposed to be that area. Where you see the smoke is Gaza City.
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- But right in front of us is Beit Hanoun.
- Beit Hanoun was wiped out.
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When we came back home in March, they told us we erased everything.
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- Nonsense.
- I looked through binoculars.
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The roofs were gone but the buildings were standing.
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But looking now, there's nothing to see?
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- They'll stay until we throw them out completely.
- What's the problem with that?
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- Where to?
- Nobody wants them.
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- You want to put them on ships?
- Yes, put them on ships and say goodbye.
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If you are against us, then goodbye.
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You have no right to exist.
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They're not going away. The question is how we are going to control it.
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We don't have to accept that they will remain here.
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We have to act so they won't be here anymore.
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On the strength of the resolution of the UN General Assembly...
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...we hereby declare the establishment of a Jewish state in the Land of Israel...
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...to be known as the State of Israel.
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This is our home.
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On October 10, 2025, a ceasefire took effect.
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But in Gaza, the killing continues.
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