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Inside Gaza: A soldier’s experience fighting Hamas

“The Quad” with guest Elkana Cohen

Israeli innovation envoy Fleur Hassan-Nahoum interviews commando soldier Elkana Cohen of the Israel Defense Forces, who details some of his battle experiences in the Gaza Strip in a new book, Oct. 7: The War Against Hamas Through the Eyes of an Israeli Commando Officer.

The text starts as a letter to his wife when he couldn’t get or be in touch with her. It describes what he saw firsthand and how the Israeli military conducted itself when face-to-face with the enemy.

JNS TV show with Fleur Hassan-Nahoum (deputy mayor of Jerusalem), Emily Schrader (activist and journalist), Ashira Solomon (African-American Jew and political moderator) and Vivian Bercovici (former Canadian ambassador to Israel).
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