The video begins with scenes from the battle that Chaim has recorded during his months in the IDF fighting the war in Gaza. Then it shifts to scenes of him and his comrades enjoying Shabbat services, even as they remain vigilant and ready to return to combat at a moments notice.
Chaim starts by saying he remembers the day he got the call to come to his IDF reserve unit because the war was starting and he was needed. He talks about others he knows who did the same, even though many of them were very busy and had a lot going on, they all dropped what they were doing and ran to join their units. They all thought it would be a short war like so many others before it, but this war has lasted over a year and a half and there’s no end in sight.
Chaim starts by saying it’s always tragic when the IDF suffers casualties, and he honors Warrant Officer G’haleb Sliman Alnasasra, 35, of Rahat, who was killed in action over the weekend. Several other soldiers were wounded in the attack, which occurred in an area that was believed to have been cleared of hostile actors, but Hamas had a tunnel that had not been demolished yet and some Hamas guys popped up out of that tunnel and fired an RPG at an IDF vehicle and then later as a rescue vehicle was headed towards the scene Hamas detonated an IED and inflicted more casualties.
Chaim starts the video by asking his viewers to leave a comment talking about who their heroes are. He then tells the story of one of his personal heroes, Fredreich Bonhoofer, who was a pastor in Germany who publicly stood against the Nazi regime and was also involved in the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944. His great legacy is that although he was a pacifist, he said that to not take action in the face of evil, and to not speak out in the face of evil, was to support evil and to become evil.
Chaim starts by saying it’s been another week of war in Gaza but he has a pass to go home for the weekend and one of the things he got to do on his time off from the front was meet and shake hands with incoming US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. His first act as ambassador was to visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem and place a note there that President Trump wrote.
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