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Shani Hikind | 05-19-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: This one in Ewlett is about as nice as it
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  Speaker 1: gets and I love the organization. Had a chance to
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  Speaker 1: tour with these people in Israel many years ago, my
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  Speaker 1: first trip Israel. I'm going back actually in three weeks
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  Speaker 1: and I'm very excited about it. But my first trip,
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  Speaker 1: I toured with these lovely people and Moti Don has
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  Speaker 1: become a friend over the years. But this is all
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  Speaker 1: about my dear friends, Dove and Shanni Hiken. Dover's on
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  Speaker 1: the show just last week doing a great job. And
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  Speaker 1: his wife, Shani is really in charge of tat Conium.
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  Speaker 1: She runs the whole thing, and she puts on this
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  Speaker 1: beautiful dinner every year, and they always invite me to
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  Speaker 1: come up and speak. They've honored me and my beautiful wife, Danielle.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great event for a great cause and it
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  Speaker 1: all comes your way later on tonight. So Shannie is
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  Speaker 1: going to be right now. Shani, it's a great event.
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  Speaker 1: You do a beautiful job. I can't wait to see
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  Speaker 1: you later on tonight. Congratulations, Thank you, Sid.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait to see you, Sid, And it is
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  Speaker 2: going to be a fabulous night. And I believe me,
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  Speaker 2: I got a lot of there's a team here there's
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  Speaker 2: a team in place that puts this evening together, like
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  Speaker 2: we say in Hebrew, lemon ushalian Irakotas, And you know,
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  Speaker 2: for the sake of Jerusalem the Holy and for the
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  Speaker 2: sake of our amazing pioneering families living on the front
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  Speaker 2: lines in Jerusalem, where you and I and you know,
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  Speaker 2: the vast majority of Jews would never lead, would never live.
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  Speaker 2: But these people have so much courage, and they're so
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  Speaker 2: dedicated to the proposition that Jerusalem must remain a united
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  Speaker 2: capital forever and ever. And we have families living among
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  Speaker 2: some of the most hateful, not all, I never generalized,
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  Speaker 2: but some of the most hateful Arabs in Israel. And
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  Speaker 2: they have thrown stones and molotov cocktails. They've tried to chase,
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  Speaker 2: you know, peaceful, you know, wonderful Jewish families out of
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  Speaker 2: our neighborhoods. And our families say, no, we will not
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  Speaker 2: be intimidated, we will not run away. We have every
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  Speaker 2: right to live in buildings that Jews lived in before
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  Speaker 2: nineteen forty eight, when the Arabs refused to protect them.
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  Speaker 2: They said, you'll come back after the war. Well, as
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  Speaker 2: you know, said, we won the war. We the IDF,
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  Speaker 2: the Haganah. You know, Irgun. Together the people of Israel
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  Speaker 2: won the war, but we didn't win the Old City
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  Speaker 2: and the neighborhoods outside the Old City. Here comes our
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  Speaker 2: Tarat coan him. We reuniting Jerusalem, keeping Jerusalem united with
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  Speaker 2: Jewish life. And that's the purpose of tonight's event, to
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  Speaker 2: honor people, supporters, pillars of Jerusalem who understand that for
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  Speaker 2: Jerusalem to remain a united capital, you have to have
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  Speaker 2: Jews living everywhere in Jerusalem. That's what's night is all about.
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  Speaker 1: It's fantastic. And I've seen some of the places. Dan
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  Speaker 1: of course, took me and Danielle around and like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I met Motidan for the first time by the Kotel
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  Speaker 1: and you know I've done it with him too. And
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  Speaker 1: you guys are doing amazing work. And I went to
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  Speaker 1: a hockey game at the ubs Arenoshani where the Islanders
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  Speaker 1: play Sunday. Yeah, and Tel Aviv versus Jerusalem. And I
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  Speaker 1: got to tell you, I'm not exaggerating at least I
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  Speaker 1: don't know thirty people maybe fifty. That's a lot. That's
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  Speaker 1: a lot came up to me and said, hey, I
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  Speaker 1: can't wait to see you on Tuesday night. I see
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  Speaker 1: you every year at the big Dinner. I'm telling you
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  Speaker 1: the truth and it made my heart warm. But again,
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  Speaker 1: you know what you guys are doing, it's so important
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  Speaker 1: because the old city is beautiful, and you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: while you're out it, you should invite this this creep,
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  Speaker 1: this horrible anti semi jihad mayor. You know he was
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  Speaker 1: celebrating knock Bay Day a couple of days ago. Clearly
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't know history. What a tragicy. He doesn't realize
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  Speaker 1: that in nineteen forty eight, after we agreed it's real,
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  Speaker 1: agreed to split the land with the Arabs, it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: good enough for them. So five Arab countries, five of
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  Speaker 1: them countries like Egypt and Syria and Jordan, decided they're
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  Speaker 1: going to fight us, and they got their answers kick.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's real, always wins. But for some reason, this
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  Speaker 1: idiot Mayor seems to think that the Palestinians are victims,
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  Speaker 1: when in fact it was there people who started the
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  Speaker 1: war and got the asses kicked.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, and they've never accepted the whole idea of a
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  Speaker 2: Jewish state. You cannot make peace with people who are
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  Speaker 2: determined to destroy you whole, the whole since October seventh
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  Speaker 2: of twenty twenty three, when these horrible monsters invaded and destroyed.
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  Speaker 2: There are no words for their beast sheality. They would
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  Speaker 2: do the same thing over again if they could. Sid
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  Speaker 2: Israel has to be strong, Israel has to be proud.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Israel is there's only one Jewish state, and
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  Speaker 2: we're willing to live side by side in peace with
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  Speaker 2: all people in Jerusalem. But you got to behave like mention.
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  Speaker 2: You have to understand that Jerusalem is the heart and
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  Speaker 2: full of the Jewish people. We welcome all people to
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  Speaker 2: live peaceably. But if you if your purpose is to
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  Speaker 2: destroy and kill and torture, there's no room for them. No.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I agree, I know this. Something's funny. I had
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  Speaker 1: your husband hunt last week after we saw those riots
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  Speaker 1: in Midwood, Brooklyn. I grew up there. I grew up
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  Speaker 1: on these twenty second in Quentin by Madison High School.
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  Speaker 1: I know that Shule and Midwood very very well. I
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  Speaker 1: know that area very very well. And your husband Dov
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  Speaker 1: and I was so frustrated, and I said to him,
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  Speaker 1: and I said the same thing to Michael Rappaport many others.
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  Speaker 1: Enough with the bullhorns, No one cares. Okay, I know
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  Speaker 1: they mean, well, all these influencers and they're out there
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  Speaker 1: with the bullhorns and nobody cares. They don't do that.
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  Speaker 1: They go on there and they physically they get violent.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm not encouraging violence necessarily, but your husband and
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  Speaker 1: I both agree that the JDL today, that's not the
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  Speaker 1: JDL when we were kids, or the ADL for that matter,
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  Speaker 1: when I was a kid, Shanni, if a Prohamas group
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  Speaker 1: came into Brooklyn, they would have gotten their answers kicked
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  Speaker 1: up and down the streets all day long. Now Jews
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  Speaker 1: don't do that. Now they run away, they hide their
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  Speaker 1: yamakas and they take them off or hide their high
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  Speaker 1: and they yell and scream on a bullhorn. And it's nonsense.
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  Speaker 1: It's time for the Jewish people, like your husband says,
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  Speaker 1: and I agree to learn how to fight. And when
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  Speaker 1: I say fight, I mean really fight. What do you
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  Speaker 1: think when your husband said that.
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  Speaker 2: I say, be careful, though, I say I know what
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  Speaker 2: Dove means by fighting. I know he means to stand tall,
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  Speaker 2: proud as a Jew, not to be afraid, not to
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  Speaker 2: take that yamaka off, not to hide your mug and
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  Speaker 2: dove it inside your shirt. But to say I'm a
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  Speaker 2: proud Jew, plain and simple and people Jews have to
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  Speaker 2: know how to defend themselves, and Jews have to be
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  Speaker 2: able to answer the enemy. And this hogwash about the Knakba,
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  Speaker 2: you know it's it's this was, this was. This is
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  Speaker 2: after all of after the Holocaust and losing six million
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  Speaker 2: of our people, the Arabs refused to let the Jews
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  Speaker 2: come home. This is our only land. There are plenty
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  Speaker 2: of other Arab countries. We need to steal land from
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  Speaker 2: one Arab. No.
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  Speaker 1: I believe there are forty two Muslim countries and maybe
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  Speaker 1: forty four. I don't even know. We have one. We
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  Speaker 1: have one, and they can't stand it. It keeps Tucker
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  Speaker 1: calls in that liar up at night. He did call
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  Speaker 1: President Trump at Anti Christ. You got it on tape.
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  Speaker 1: So about it to wrap this great conversation up, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. In terms of tickets, if people can still
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  Speaker 1: go out there later on tonight. Again, it's a gorgeous venue.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lovely event. If they want to donate, obviously give.
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  Speaker 2: My I will give you my number nine one seven
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  Speaker 2: two nine seven two zero seven five. If somebody would
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  Speaker 2: like to call me. We do ask there is an admission.
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  Speaker 2: We would love to have people with us because the
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  Speaker 2: money raised that this dinner is going to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: help our families living on the frontlines, our children, children's activities.
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  Speaker 2: You know where we're building a new yeshiva in the
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  Speaker 2: Old City, a yeshiva high school there. There's so many
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  Speaker 2: things to do that people can be our partners. And
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  Speaker 2: I must mention, you know, Jerry and Sue Wartsky, and
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  Speaker 2: you will be presenting the award to this unassuming, quiet,
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  Speaker 2: modest gentleman. You know, Jerry, I mean coming after Auschwitz
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  Speaker 2: and everything is family endured in the Holocaust. These are
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  Speaker 2: people people like in Ann Hoenig, Aleja Shalon from Farakaway,
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  Speaker 2: and we're honoring her memory, people who understood going back
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  Speaker 2: forty five, stim back to nineteen eighty three, that yous
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  Speaker 2: have a right to live throughout the Old City and
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  Speaker 2: we have to be their partners. And then one second,
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  Speaker 2: I must mention our two our two lone soldiers, Jacob
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  Speaker 2: Verstaalizer and a Frime Abrams. Can you imagine leaving the
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  Speaker 2: comforts of home. You don't have to, you're not drafted.
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  Speaker 2: But these two soldiers, like many others, but we're honoring
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  Speaker 2: these two f Rihime Abrams and Jacob Versaalizer who picked
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  Speaker 2: up from Oceanside and Lawrence and went to fight in
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  Speaker 2: the IDF saw their buddies killed, but they're determined to
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  Speaker 2: participate in the defense of our people, in the defense
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  Speaker 2: of our Israel. It's going to be a magnificent event.
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  Speaker 2: Love you, sid can't wait to see you.
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  Speaker 1: Love you too. And I had the pleasure of sharing
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  Speaker 1: the stage. You were there, you dulled that night. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: two of the first people of the Illini saw third
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  Speaker 1: night of High East Wing of the White House when
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  Speaker 1: President Trump called me up on stage, and Jerry Wartsky
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  Speaker 1: was there as well, also made his way up to
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  Speaker 1: the stage. So it's a huge hore for me tonight
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  Speaker 1: to do that. And you're the greatest. I would think
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  Speaker 1: you're the greatest, honey, And love dove too. And it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be great tonight. I can't wait to see. I
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  Speaker 1: love you, Thank you so much.