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OneLegUpAlex Media Hears From the Israel Childrens Fund in ISRAEL, Co-host Cheri Srour (3-15-26) · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: All right, well, one look up, Alex Media is going
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  Speaker 1: on the ground right now to Israel and the Israel
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  Speaker 1: Children's Fund with former Shiloh mayor David Rubin and Havaklimban,
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  Speaker 1: a career social worker. There first of all, prayers to
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  Speaker 1: Israel right now. And how are you guys doing with
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  Speaker 1: all the craziness. I mean, this has been an insane time.
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  Speaker 1: But give us a vision on the ground, how you
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  Speaker 1: guys have been doing and what the Children's Fund has
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  Speaker 1: been doing.
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  Speaker 2: To support the kids during this time.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well, I guess I'll start by telling you that, yes,
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  Speaker 3: it has been a very unique time.
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  Speaker 4: There are two ways of looking at it, Alex.
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  Speaker 3: There's the war itself, in which Israel in the United
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  Speaker 3: States are coordinated like any other, like more than any
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  Speaker 3: two countries that I can remember in modern his three UH,
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  Speaker 3: the uh, the attacks on Iran, and you know, basically
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  Speaker 3: the can was kicked down the road by about forty
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  Speaker 3: for about forty years, and finally, finally our two countries
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  Speaker 3: are doing something about it.
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  Speaker 4: And that's great.
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  Speaker 1: I agree, we're not throwing money, we're actually going at
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  Speaker 1: the problem now.
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  Speaker 4: So that's right, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: But then you look at the flip side, and which
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  Speaker 3: which Java and I are very involved in at the
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  Speaker 3: Silo Israel Children's Fund or Shiloh Israel Children's Fund as
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  Speaker 3: many people would call it in other countries. The the
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  Speaker 3: effort on healing the trauma of children and just seeing
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  Speaker 3: the trauma of the children and seeing its skyrocket in
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  Speaker 3: these in these times of war and terrorism, and that's
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  Speaker 3: what we're involved in. That's what we're trying to do,
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  Speaker 3: and we're trying to heal that in between running to
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  Speaker 3: the bomb shelters, so where basically we're working twenty four
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  Speaker 3: to seven to try and provide healing for the children.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, we could share more details with you, but absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'd love to know how you guys have
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  Speaker 1: been keeping their spirits high amidst this very time of turmoil.
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  Speaker 5: So maybe i'll I could talk a little bit about that. Basically,
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  Speaker 5: what David said is very important. We've basically, as you know,
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  Speaker 5: been in a state of war in our country for
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  Speaker 5: almost two and a half years now. You know, we
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  Speaker 5: had on the first night of this current round of
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  Speaker 5: Iran attacks, we get a siren saying, you know, we're
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  Speaker 5: at war, and everyone says, well.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean, haven't been been at we haven't
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  Speaker 6: been at war. Haven't we been at war for two
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  Speaker 6: and a half years.
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  Speaker 5: And each time this is sort of like something that
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  Speaker 5: comes up and the thing is and this is what
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  Speaker 5: we are looking at, is that we've seen, like the
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  Speaker 5: scale of trauma and children has changed dramatically since October seventh,
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  Speaker 5: thousands of children of experience severe trauma through direct exposure
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  Speaker 5: to violin, displacement from their homes, or basically living under
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  Speaker 5: constant rockets and minstile attacks. And so children are not
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  Speaker 5: only dealing with one single event, They're dealing with a
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  Speaker 5: series of traumatic events. And this ongoing trauma is very
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  Speaker 5: very hard for children to endure because they don't even
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  Speaker 5: have time to heal from the previous trauma.
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  Speaker 6: And so we're trying to use all kinds.
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  Speaker 5: Of different ways to be with them, to show them
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  Speaker 5: that they can trust in adults and that you know,
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  Speaker 5: we can help them through our different programs that we're
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  Speaker 5: doing well.
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  Speaker 1: I have Sherry who's actually been a guest on the
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  Speaker 1: show before and has been in Israel many times.
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  Speaker 2: She's also a social worker here in America.
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  Speaker 1: So for you, Shary, I mean, what are the kids
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  Speaker 1: talking to you about this from America side of things.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, so I definitely have some children. I'm a social
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  Speaker 7: worker and I specialize marking with children and specifically children
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  Speaker 7: that hype experience trauma. So I do understand exactly what
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  Speaker 7: you're talking about. I do have some children that have
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  Speaker 7: families that live in Israel and have shared their experiences.
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  Speaker 7: I guess kind of like indirect trauma or stuff and
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  Speaker 7: direct trauma. But I did have a question for you
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  Speaker 7: because you're living in a job or experience in people,
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  Speaker 7: So how do you prevent yourself from burning out?
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  Speaker 5: So that's a very good question, and it's important and
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  Speaker 5: also about myself and also to the different teams that
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  Speaker 5: we have working with children, because like we said, these
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  Speaker 5: you know, our staff are therapists, and our staff have
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  Speaker 5: been doing this for two and a half years. So
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  Speaker 5: it is very very important to stop sometimes to breathe,
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  Speaker 5: to see what's happening around us, and also for us
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  Speaker 5: to get support ourselves. So one of the things that
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  Speaker 5: I did at one point is I stopped and I
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  Speaker 5: got therapy for myself to you know, to help to
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  Speaker 5: work through all the things that were going through.
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  Speaker 6: And this is one of the things that we do
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  Speaker 6: as well.
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  Speaker 5: We make sure that our staff has different resilient sessions
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  Speaker 5: and support throughout so they keep on giving the children
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  Speaker 5: what they need without them burning out.
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  Speaker 6: So that's a very good question.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, we're a mayor at one time of Shiloh,
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  Speaker 1: so does this does this kind of children's fund need
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  Speaker 1: that the political support as well or is it totally
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  Speaker 1: separate now that you're no longer mayor.
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  Speaker 2: Is there some kind of connection there?
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  Speaker 3: Well, even when I was mayor, it was totally a
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  Speaker 3: separate thing. It's it started. It started from from a
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  Speaker 3: contact from actually from the previous mayor who gave me
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  Speaker 3: some information, handed over a phone number to me because
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  Speaker 3: there were some people who wanted to stand with Israel
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  Speaker 3: and and he said, hey, here's a number for you.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to check it out.
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  Speaker 3: But but then after that and after my time as mayor,
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  Speaker 3: then things really took off. After my three year old
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  Speaker 3: son and I wounded in a terror attack as we were
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  Speaker 3: driving home from Jerusalem and I was I was shot
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  Speaker 3: in the leg, my son was shot in the head
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  Speaker 3: and the bullet that went through his head and into
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  Speaker 3: his head and through his neck missed his brainstem by
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  Speaker 3: one millimeter.
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  Speaker 4: So we survived.
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  Speaker 3: But then later on after about three weeks later, after
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  Speaker 3: a couple of operations and some weeks in the hospital,
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  Speaker 3: and he was home. And two weeks two weeks after
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  Speaker 3: his arrival back at home, after many many sleepless, sleepless
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  Speaker 3: nights and seeing him screaming in the middle of the
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  Speaker 3: night and understanding that there was trauma, so he he
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  Speaker 3: was in the living room one evening and and he
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  Speaker 3: was playing with a couple of his sister's dolls and
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  Speaker 3: I and I saw him, and he's talking to himself,
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  Speaker 3: and I looked over in his direction, and he picks
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  Speaker 3: up one of the dolls and he says, this is
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  Speaker 3: the Abba, meaning this is the father. He has a
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  Speaker 3: hole in his leg, which indeed I did still from
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  Speaker 3: the terror attack, even after plastic surgery. And then then
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  Speaker 3: he points to the other doll, he says, this is
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  Speaker 3: a little baby, and he was talking about himself, and
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  Speaker 3: and I just got very emotional at that moment because
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  Speaker 3: I realized several things. Number one, I realized that this
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  Speaker 3: is how we could heal his trauma through some sort
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  Speaker 3: of play therapy too. And then I realized that there
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  Speaker 3: were so many other children, you know, even even Jave's
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  Speaker 3: son who was who was a friend of my son
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  Speaker 3: who was wounded. And and then there was another child
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  Speaker 3: in there in their kindergarten who was whose brother was
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  Speaker 3: killed in a terror attack, and there were actually two.
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  Speaker 3: So but when you think about it, the trauma is
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  Speaker 3: so widespread and and right away it's like the light bulb,
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  Speaker 3: you know, went on and said and it told me,
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  Speaker 3: this is what you have to do. You have to
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  Speaker 3: establish some sort of organization, some sort of vehicle that
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  Speaker 3: can heal trauma in children, in young children and older children,
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  Speaker 3: and to somehow blend therapy with education to really to
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  Speaker 3: give the children an education for such a time like this,
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  Speaker 3: when when it really is needed. Uh. So that's how
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  Speaker 3: the Shiloh Israel Children's Fund was established. That was the
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  Speaker 3: brainstorm that made it happen. And we've been doing it
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  Speaker 3: for about over twenty years really, and in truth, the
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  Speaker 3: past two and a half years have been totally in
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  Speaker 3: crisis mode. But this has been going on for quite
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  Speaker 3: some time. And so when after October seventh, after the
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  Speaker 3: big massacre, we got a phone call from the Israeli
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  Speaker 3: Defense Ministry saying, you have to help us. We're evacuating
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  Speaker 3: hundreds upon hundreds of families from from the North and
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  Speaker 3: from the south after the massacre and the missiles are
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  Speaker 3: flying and we've got to get therapy to these children.
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  Speaker 3: And that's where where Java came in and she mobilized
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  Speaker 3: the mobile therapy team.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe how but could share with us a little bit about.
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  Speaker 5: That, sure, So basically we work in a number of
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  Speaker 5: different ways. We'll start by the mobile therapy, which which
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  Speaker 5: David just mentioned is basically as we know, we have
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  Speaker 5: therapy centers, which I'll tell you a little bit about
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  Speaker 5: it after.
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  Speaker 6: But not everyone can make it to therapy centers either.
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  Speaker 5: It's because they are in hotels after like David mentioned,
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  Speaker 5: after October seventh, south of the North, and again now
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  Speaker 5: when communities are hit by missiles and they there's now
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  Speaker 5: six hundred people from the community of bait Chemish living
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  Speaker 5: in hotels in Jerusalem. Not many people know that number,
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  Speaker 5: but that's what happened from that missile attack about two
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  Speaker 5: weeks ago. And they, you know, their whole life is
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  Speaker 5: uprooted and they have to go and live in hotels
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  Speaker 5: and obviously they are moved out of their house in
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  Speaker 5: one minute after a very traumatic incident, and so processing
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  Speaker 5: and working through what's going on. So we have mobile
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  Speaker 5: therapists that can come to the hotels or go to
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  Speaker 5: people's home homes and help them get through, you know,
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  Speaker 5: the initial.
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  Speaker 6: Stages and then even stay with them long term.
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  Speaker 5: So it's a very very important thing for whoever can't
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  Speaker 5: make it to get therapy themselves. Aside from that, we
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  Speaker 5: also have some therapy centers where we work in very
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  Speaker 5: creative ways with children. You know, with children, you can't
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  Speaker 5: just sit down and say, you know, what's wrong, how's
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  Speaker 5: it going. So we have art music, art therapy, music therapy,
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  Speaker 5: drama therapy, bibliotherapy, small animal therapy, equine assisted therapy, horseback
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  Speaker 5: writing therapy, and we really try to you know, work
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  Speaker 5: with children in the way that we can help them
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  Speaker 5: the best too, to get them through the trauma that
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  Speaker 5: they're dealing with. We also do a lot of group
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  Speaker 5: work in schools, which is a great way to reach
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  Speaker 5: more children. And also again you know, sometimes it's hard
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  Speaker 5: for parents to bring their children to therapy, so this
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  Speaker 5: way we can get to lots of people in many,
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  Speaker 5: many different ways. And I'll just say, like our goal
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  Speaker 5: is not just treatment, but it's really to help children
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  Speaker 5: regain a sense of safety and hope with everything that's.
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  Speaker 6: Been going on here.
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  Speaker 2: I am an intro question.
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  Speaker 1: I believe Israel is a little more integrated, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as days go on. So do these kids get bullied
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  Speaker 1: all in additional word about attack, is they're bullying going
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  Speaker 1: on because they are Jewish or not so much?
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's that's an instant question.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I I'll answer it in a general way. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: but the children here suffer from all of the same
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  Speaker 3: traumas that children suffer from all around the world. The
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  Speaker 3: you know, including the trauma that you just described, which
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  Speaker 3: children suffer from everywhere it happens, and true where we
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  Speaker 3: are a Jewish country. So the children here aren't necessarily
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  Speaker 3: going to get bullied by their classmates because they're Jewish.
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  Speaker 3: But even though I know that happens in many places
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  Speaker 3: another country, but but they look, we do have there
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  Speaker 3: are Arab populations here that they want to destroy Israel,
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  Speaker 3: and and sure so there are there are issues from
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  Speaker 3: them as well. The trauma that my my son, in fact,
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  Speaker 3: my whole family suffered from from that one terror attack.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it resonates, there's a domino effect, and when
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  Speaker 3: one person is wounded or or attacked in a family,
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  Speaker 3: the whole family is affected. And when one person is
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  Speaker 3: attacked in a community, the whole community is affected. And
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  Speaker 3: when one person is attacked in fact in Israel, you
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  Speaker 3: know there there there are verberations there, there are ramifications
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  Speaker 3: for that as well, and every single child thinks could
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  Speaker 3: this happen to me? You know, the thought does go
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  Speaker 3: through the head, even if they haven't experienced it directly themselves.
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  Speaker 4: So so yes, children.
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  Speaker 3: Here go through all the same traumas that children around
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  Speaker 3: the world suffer from, plus the trauma of terrorism and
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  Speaker 3: the threat of terrorism, and the trauma of war and
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  Speaker 3: the threat of war. Even the threats are are trauma.
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  Speaker 3: So Alex, if I could just give a call out to.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, please do tell us how support.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, everyone is listening here that that you could just
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  Speaker 3: go to Israel Children dot org.
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  Speaker 4: It's very very simple U R L Israel Children.
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  Speaker 3: Dot org, I s R a e L Children dot
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  Speaker 3: org and they could find out more at Israel Children
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  Speaker 3: dot org about what we do. They could see some
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  Speaker 3: videos and pictures and testimonies there as well.
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  Speaker 2: I know Sherry had another question.
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  Speaker 7: So I'm sure that the children are scared and they
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  Speaker 7: somewhat kind of rebalize that. To you, is there any
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  Speaker 7: specific techniques that we use to kind of regain that
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  Speaker 7: sense of security, our safety or having them feel like
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  Speaker 7: it's a scary time but you're still safe.
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  Speaker 5: So I think that's a very good question, and it's
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  Speaker 5: actually a lot of the work that we do is
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  Speaker 5: also with parents, obviously, right, because when you're helping children,
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  Speaker 5: you need to help their parents, and so often parents
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  Speaker 5: ask questions about how much are we supposed to tell
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  Speaker 5: our child, you know, how much should they see what's
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  Speaker 5: going on? And you know, our first instinct is parents
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  Speaker 5: sometimes is to you know, tell them as little as possible,
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  Speaker 5: or not tell them everything that's going on. But what
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  Speaker 5: is really important is that parents tell their children what's
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  Speaker 5: going on, obviously in an age appropriate way, you know,
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  Speaker 5: not all the details about everything. But it's better for
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  Speaker 5: children to hear from their parents what's going on then
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  Speaker 5: to hear it from a friend or in some news
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  Speaker 5: or on you know, on the internet.
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  Speaker 6: Depending on their age.
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  Speaker 5: So it's very important for parents, you know, at the
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  Speaker 5: beginning of this Iran, so the round of Iran at
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  Speaker 5: this point, so it's important to explain to your child.
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  Speaker 6: What do you do when you hear a siren, what
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  Speaker 6: do we do? What are we doing to get our
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  Speaker 6: safe room prepared?
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  Speaker 5: And these are things that you know sometimes I had
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  Speaker 5: a mother say to me, I'm not going to tell
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  Speaker 5: my child that it's so scary, and I said, no,
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  Speaker 5: it's the opposite. If you tell them what's going on,
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  Speaker 5: and you give them the tools and show them that
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  Speaker 5: we're preparing, then it'll make them get through this in
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  Speaker 5: a much calmer and you know, they'll be aware of
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  Speaker 5: what's going on and be safe even you know something,
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  Speaker 5: but you know that I don't know if you know
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  Speaker 5: people have heard what the warning sign for the sirens here,
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  Speaker 5: but it's really scary. We get these on our phones.
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  Speaker 5: We get this like very very intrusive warning. And one
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  Speaker 5: of the things that we tell parents to tell their
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  Speaker 5: children is that, yes, it's a scary sound, but it's
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  Speaker 5: not something that you need to be scared of. Actually,
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  Speaker 5: the siren is there to protect you because it's you know,
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  Speaker 5: telling you go into a safe from so a lot
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  Speaker 5: of things, and it just talking to children in a
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  Speaker 5: way that's age appropriate is a super important thing for
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  Speaker 5: people to be doing at this point.
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  Speaker 1: You know you mentioned online, I mean there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of hatred out there. So how do parents, how do
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  Speaker 1: you either explain it or shield them from it? What
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  Speaker 1: is there shielding them from all this stuff online?
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  Speaker 5: I don't think there's really a way, you know, to
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  Speaker 5: shield them from what's going on. Again, we you know,
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  Speaker 5: as parents, and depending on the ages of your child,
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  Speaker 5: they should.
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  Speaker 6: Not be online all day and everything. You know.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously teenagers is a different story because we can't really
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  Speaker 5: control everything they're doing. But but I think, you know,
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  Speaker 5: you have to, you know, explain things and say, yes,
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  Speaker 5: there are people that want to kill us because we
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  Speaker 5: are Jews and you know, and we have an army
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  Speaker 5: that's protecting.
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  Speaker 6: Us and we're doing whatever we can.
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  Speaker 5: But you have to put it out there because they're
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  Speaker 5: going to find out and it's better that they year
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  Speaker 5: from us.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said before, absolutely, Well, this has been really insightful,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like we talk all day because there's
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  Speaker 1: just the developments continue to unfold, and I just say,
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  Speaker 1: two and a half years of trauma. I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: has been quite a whirlwind by so and Sherry has
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  Speaker 1: another question, actually.
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  Speaker 7: Just one last question. Has Jews in America and Jews
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  Speaker 7: are feeling gripain and understanding your trauma, what you're going through.
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  Speaker 7: How can we best support you guys from here, Well.
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  Speaker 3: I think we we kind of just laid it out
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  Speaker 3: for you very very clearly. When you know, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of times Jews in America and another other pro Israel,
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  Speaker 3: people who might not be Jews, they they really believe,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that they should be standing with Israel in
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  Speaker 3: these times and the you know, I always tell you
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  Speaker 3: there there are a lot of ways to stand with Israel.
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  Speaker 4: You can pray for Israel. You can.
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  Speaker 3: You can pray that will be successful for both of
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  Speaker 3: our armies in this in this war, of course, both
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  Speaker 3: of our militaries to be successful.
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  Speaker 4: But then then you.
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  Speaker 3: Can stand with with Israel in concrete ways. And there
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  Speaker 3: are several concrete ways. One of the concrete ways is political,
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  Speaker 3: which which means to stand up against those who are
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  Speaker 3: who are just haters where wherever they fall on the
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  Speaker 3: political spectrum, whether whether it's the you know, the crazy isolationists,
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  Speaker 3: or or whether it's the uh, you know, crazy isolationists
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  Speaker 3: who just want to put their heads in the sand
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  Speaker 3: in the Middle East, send I might say, and or
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  Speaker 3: or there, or there's you know, the others that are
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: just either just rabid uh rabid hard left ideologues who
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: are partnering with with radical.
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  Speaker 4: Muslims to destroy Israel.
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  Speaker 3: So there, yeah, there is that that hatred out there,
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  Speaker 3: and the best way to combat it is by doing
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  Speaker 3: something positive. And the most positive thing you can do
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  Speaker 3: is stand with the children, okay, because I mean some
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: maybe some of their parents, uh you know, are are
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: living here and here in Israel because they really believe
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  Speaker 3: in it. Because you know, adults have opinions, but children, uh,
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: you know, they need our help.
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  Speaker 4: Children need need our help. They don't really.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Understand what all these conflicts are are about international politics.
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  Speaker 3: They don't know about nuclear bombs and and all this
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  Speaker 3: crazy stuff. But by stand with the children, you're doing
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  Speaker 3: about the best thing that you can do. And and
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: so the way to do that is to go to
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  Speaker 3: Israel Children dot org to find out more and and
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: it's pretty easy, just push a few buttons and you
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: can give a donation.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll ask you this, could you mention setting up
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  Speaker 1: against those that are far left?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, look here in New York, we're dealing with
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: that right now.
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  Speaker 1: And as mayor to mayor, what would you say to
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: mom Donnie right now as a former mayor and you've
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: been at leading a city, what would you say to
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the mayor of New York right now?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I would say, given given your political positions, I
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: would not have been able to vote for you, but
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: I would I would appeal to his self interest. I
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: would tell him that that if he wants to to
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: be re elected at some point, if he wants to
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: be on the right side of history, uh, then then
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: he needs to stand with all of the people who
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: live in his city. Mayor's responsibility is to stand with everybody,
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: and to to listen to everyone, to have an ear
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  Speaker 3: for everybody and respect for everyone. So far, he hasn't
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: exhibited that, and it's very concerning. But but I would
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: advise him that you know, as a as a former mayor,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: that that that you have to take everyone into consideration
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: and and to serve the needs of the public that
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: you are that you're elected to serve.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know that he did not condemn right away
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  Speaker 2: or at all the.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: SPOTSCO has seen at all the Yeshiva elementary schools in
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Brooklyn the day after his election.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that was his first blunder as far as
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: I could tell. Being elected. You know, and then it's
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: been worse than that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's gonna unfortunately.
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  Speaker 3: You know. I I would like to think that having
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: a little talk with him would solve the problem. But
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: he's a left wing, radical Muslim ideologue, and when you
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: put those two together, it's not good.
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  Speaker 4: It's not a good thing.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, as I I wrote about that in
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: my book Confronting Radicals. What America can learn from Israel,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: And one of the things that Americans can learn from
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Israel is that radicalism is not a good thing, and
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: especially when it's and it's two particular groups such as
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: radical Muslims and radical radical communists or democratic socialists they
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: might call themselves. When you have that combination two groups
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: that don't seem like they would have anything that would
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: bring them together other than hatred of Jews, well you've
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: got a problem there.
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  Speaker 4: You got a moral problem.
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  Speaker 3: And not to mention the political problem.
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  Speaker 1: How I want to mention asking this, because it was
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: two and a half years since the Hamas attack October seventh,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: did you feel like there was almost like we were
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: just getting over not over, but we were just healing
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  Speaker 1: from that.
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  Speaker 2: And then this happens, is that the feeling right now yeah.
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  Speaker 5: We haven't even Yeah, we haven't even had chance to
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: really heal people. You know, people have you know, been
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: doing different therapies or processing, but we're still very much
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: at the beginning. And each time this happens, we're thrown
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: back to that trauma that you know, children especially are experiencing.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: And I know we have the Golden Dome over there
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: and that that I guess is so strong, but mentally
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: it can only do so much.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: And that's why you guys are on the ground being
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: the Golden Dome for the kids. I guess what I'm
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: trying to say.
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  Speaker 5: We're really trying to Yeah, you know, we see and again,
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: like like David said, we see again and again that
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: with proper support, children can regain a sense of security
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  Speaker 5: and move forward with strength.
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  Speaker 6: But if we don't help them, then they don't have
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: a chance.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you both so much for joining one lego
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  Speaker 1: Alex Media from Israel right now. It's Sunday, March fifteenth,
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  Speaker 1: and prayers to everybody over there, and God bless you
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: guys seriously, and thanks for the great work you're doing
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: over there for Thegul children.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you, Alex. We appreciate