Game Changers - with Natan Sharansky — Transcript

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1. 0:00I'm Noam Weissman, the head of education
2. 0:03at Unpacked. I'm so excited to host this
3. 0:06conversation with the living legend
4. 0:08Natan Sheransky.
5. 0:10And I'm so incredibly excited that we at
6. 0:13Unpacked are able to partner with all of
7. 0:16these incredible organizations, amazing
8. 0:18Jewish organizations across the world.
9. 0:21Nearly 100 organizations, diversity from
10. 0:24all different walks of life are coming
11. 0:26together to learn from Natan Sharansky.
12. 0:29I encourage every single person on this
13. 0:31call to check out our YouTube channel,
14. 0:34YouTube.com/unpacked.
15. 0:37Make sure you check it out where you'll
16. 0:39get all of our content. But again, I
17. 0:41want to thank all of our partners. It's
18. 0:42so inspirational to see all of you join
19. 0:45forces together globally to learn with
20. 0:49and about Natan Sharansky.
21. 0:52I want to start this event the way we
22. 0:55should start every event with the why.
23. 0:57Why are we doing this? Why Natan
24. 0:59Sharansky?
25. 1:01More than ever, we're trying to feel
26. 1:04connected to create meaningful dialogue
27. 1:07from across the world. Our program today
28. 1:11introduces the man of the hour, Natan
29. 1:13Sharansky, who fought long and hard
30. 1:17against the former Soviet regime behind
31. 1:19bars and side by side with many of his
32. 1:23Jewish brothers and Jewish sisters
33. 1:26for the right to practice Judaism and
34. 1:29for the right to go to Israel.
35. 1:32Since then, he has held various
36. 1:33leadership positions throughout the
37. 1:36Jewish world in Israel and he currently
38. 1:40is the chair of the Institute for the
39. 1:42Study of Global Anti-Semitism and
40. 1:44Policy. And what I find most inspiring
41. 1:46about him is he is a leading voice on
42. 1:49Jewish unity today. Today we explore his
43. 1:53unique narrative and how in times like
44. 1:55this right now, we can learn from his
45. 1:58life and take some inspiration into the
46. 2:00days and perhaps weeks ahead. Here's
47. 2:04what we're going to do. I'm going to
48. 2:06give you some basic facts about Natan
49. 2:08Sharansky. Make sure you're listening
50. 2:10closely. We have schools from across the
51. 2:12globe participating in this. We're going
52. 2:14to play a game of cahoot. If you're an
53. 2:16adult and haven't heard of that, well,
54. 2:17your child has heard of it. Let's make
55. 2:20sure to play cahoot together. It's going
56. 2:21to be a good time. My colleague Avi
57. 2:23Posen is going to be leading that. And
58. 2:25then we're going to hear from Natan
59. 2:27Sharansky.
60. 2:29He's going to give us some answers to
61. 2:30some questions that I have. So, who is
62. 2:32Natan Sharansky?
63. 2:36Wow. How do I begin this? Natan
64. 2:38Sharansky
65. 2:40spent nine years in the worst prisons
66. 2:42that the Soviet that the Soviet regime
67. 2:45had to offer. Natan Sharansky is so is
68. 2:49someone that I learned so much about
69. 2:51growing up. He's somebody who was part
70. 2:54of my life, part of so many people's
71. 2:56lives, someone that we didn't know
72. 2:58personally, but somebody that we all got
73. 3:00to know from hearing his story. He loved
74. 3:02the Jewish people. Um, and he loved
75. 3:04Israel so much. Um, and here's a story
76. 3:07when he was finally released in a
77. 3:09prisoner exchange on a bridge to Berlin.
78. 3:11It's a story that many of us have heard
79. 3:12about. I'm sure if you haven't heard
80. 3:14this, pay close attention now. When he
81. 3:16was about to be released by his um by
82. 3:20his prisoners, Sheransky's captors gave
83. 3:22him strict instructions. Here was the
84. 3:24instruction. Ready? Walk straight across
85. 3:27to the other side of the bridge.
86. 3:30What did Sheransky do? He climbed out of
87. 3:32his car and closed the door and he began
88. 3:35to walk across. Suddenly, he started
89. 3:38zigzagging a step or two to the left, a
90. 3:41step or two to the right. Zigzag,
91. 3:43zigzag, back and forth he went. The
92. 3:45Americans who are on the other side
93. 3:47started wondering what is going on here.
94. 3:50Was he drugged? Is something wrong with
95. 3:53him? Is he injured? What's going on
96. 3:55here? It was bizarre.
97. 3:57Really weird.
98. 3:59When he reached other side, he finally
99. 4:01explained everything that was going on.
100. 4:04Why did he do what he did? He explained
101. 4:07it was a final gesture of defiance. It
102. 4:10was a final gesture to demonstrate to
103. 4:13his capttors that he was not willing to
104. 4:16listen to what they were telling him to
105. 4:18do. They told him to walk straight. So
106. 4:21what did he do? He zigzagged. They told
107. 4:23him not to practice Judaism. What did he
108. 4:25do? He practiced Judaism. They told him
109. 4:27not to commit to Israel. What did he do?
110. 4:29Commit to Israel. He decided he was
111. 4:32definitely not going to start following
112. 4:33their orders now. Not on his final steps
113. 4:35towards freedom. No way. No how.
114. 4:38Sheransky's zigzag zigzag walk over the
115. 4:41bridge was a powerful and symbolic act
116. 4:43of protest and resilience. And even that
117. 4:47act doesn't begin to scratch the surface
118. 4:49of Natan's Jewish heroism in the face of
119. 4:52oppression. So here are facts and I want
120. 4:56you to pay close attention to these
121. 4:57facts about Natan Sharansky because
122. 4:59we're going to be doing the first ever
123. 5:00international Zoom competition from my
124. 5:03own living room. first international
125. 5:06zoom uh cahoot competition about the
126. 5:08life and times of Natan Sharansky. It's
127. 5:11so amazing to see all these different uh
128. 5:12names pop up here all these from all
129. 5:15these different cities from across the
130. 5:16globe. Unbelievable.
131. 5:19So here's what we're going to do. Here
132. 5:20are some facts and if you win there are
133. 5:23going to be three prizes by the way. So
134. 5:25pay close attention. Avi Pose and my
135. 5:27colleagues gonna tell you what the
136. 5:28prizes are. So number one fact number
137. 5:31one his name was not always Natan
138. 5:34Sharansky actually and I hope I
139. 5:36pronounced this correctly it was Anatoli
140. 5:39Borisovich Sharansky he changed his name
141. 5:41after making aliyah and there are many
142. 5:43other f famous Israeli figures like
143. 5:44Golden Mayor was Golden Meerson Shivon
144. 5:47Perez was Perski I think David Benurian
145. 5:50was David Gruin so he was another
146. 5:52example of a Jewish Israeli figure who
147. 5:55really changed his name when he got to
148. 5:56Israel so it's Anatoli hope you remember
149. 5:58that number too. I got to tell you this.
150. 6:01He is low-key a genius. A genius. Most
151. 6:03people don't know Sheransky studied
152. 6:05science and physics. People think of him
153. 6:07as a diplomat, as a politician, perhaps
154. 6:09as a spokesperson,
155. 6:11but he was always sharp with his with
156. 6:14his sharp and clever IQ. He studied at
157. 6:17the Institute of Physics and Applied
158. 6:19Math, which is the Soviet MIT for those
159. 6:22of us who are so American centric
160. 6:23perhaps like me.
161. 6:26Number three, that's fact number two.
162. 6:28Number three, during his nine years in
163. 6:30prison, he was in solitary confinement
164. 6:34for 4 and a half years. Solitary, listen
165. 6:37to that. Solitary confinement for 4 and
166. 6:39a half years. And he was in a punishment
167. 6:42cell for 405 days. He completed a 110day
168. 6:47hunger strike.
169. 6:49He started his hunger strike on Yum
170. 6:51Kipur 1982 and he was force-fed 34
171. 6:54times.
172. 6:57terribly sad.
173. 7:00He also spent 12 years separated from
174. 7:02his wife Avital who was a main heroine
175. 7:06throughout the whole story.
176. 7:09He and his wife were separated one day
177. 7:12after getting married. It's hard to even
178. 7:14imagine
179. 7:16but he was an inspiration to so many
180. 7:17including Nelson Mandela. Nelson Mandela
181. 7:20the former presidents of South Africa
182. 7:22and a leading fighter against apartheid.
183. 7:26He was inspired by none other than Natan
184. 7:29Sharansky. Natan Sharansky's book, Fear
185. 7:31No Evil. He read it while in prison. And
186. 7:34when he was in prison and he received
187. 7:36his book, he received his book from
188. 7:37Natan Sharansky. Mandela read it cover
189. 7:40to cover.
190. 7:42And finally, the iconic song is you know
191. 7:47we could all sing it together.
192. 7:52That song was created by by Rabbi
193. 7:55Schlommo Karbach and became the anthem
194. 7:58to free Soviet jewelry. It spread
195. 8:01throughout the Jewish world and was sung
196. 8:03by Soviet Jews in synagogues and secret
197. 8:05meetings. Those are the facts about
198. 8:08Natan Sharansky. That's the why in this
199. 8:10crazy moment in the history of the world
200. 8:12that we are now doing this event
201. 8:15together with Natan Sharansky. Natan,
202. 8:17I'm so excited to have you here. I'm
203. 8:19going to ask you three questions. Um
204. 8:21here are the three questions. Question
205. 8:22number one, I'm going to read you a
206. 8:24quote. Okay, here's the quote that I
207. 8:26have for you. Um, you wrote, "The sense
208. 8:28of Jewish unity was a real force, like
209. 8:31the current that helps you swim down
210. 8:32river, but Jews don't swim alone. We're
211. 8:35not even supposed to pray alone, seeking
212. 8:37nine others for a quorum, a minion."
213. 8:39Instead, when you join the Jewish
214. 8:41people, you don't just get an identity.
215. 8:43With all these ideas and values, you get
216. 8:45a community with all these people
217. 8:46personalities, too. Since joining, I was
218. 8:48never alone. Natan,
219. 8:51how did you feel Jewish unity while you
220. 8:53were so secluded and isolated?
221. 8:58Well, uh, first of all, I, uh, had a
222. 9:02very good, uh, rehearsal because before
223. 9:06I went to prison, I was absolutely Jew,
224. 9:10Soviet Jew without any identity. H, and
225. 9:14wanted only to survive and make my
226. 9:18career in spite of anti-mitism. Then I
227. 9:20discovered Israel.
228. 9:23uh when suddenly after 1967
229. 9:26uh all the people around you start
230. 9:28asking you how you guys succeeded to do
231. 9:32it victory of Israel and you understand
232. 9:34whether you want or not people connect
233. 9:36you to Israel and you start reading in
234. 9:38the underground the books about your own
235. 9:41history and you discover that if only
236. 9:43you want you can have can be part of
237. 9:46this history and of these people who
238. 9:48want to help you and from the state of
239. 9:50Israel which is ready to send airplanes
240. 9:53on the end of the world but to help you.
241. 9:55And then I became activist. And for a
242. 9:58number of years while being an activist
243. 10:00in Soviet jewelry movement and a human
244. 10:02rights movement, I met with many Jews
245. 10:05who are coming from the west, from New
246. 10:09York, from Los Angeles, from many other
247. 10:11parts of the world and who wanted to
248. 10:13help. And you saw what how devoted they
249. 10:17are. And then while in prison, you're
250. 10:20trying to remember to restore every
251. 10:23moment that you spent talking to uh
252. 10:28those Jews or speaking by telephone with
253. 10:31Israel or with uh some Jews abroad
254. 10:35describing the station or participating
255. 10:38in demonstrations when you feel that
256. 10:41it's small demonstration of 10 people
257. 10:43you'll be arrested but all the Jewish
258. 10:45world will go on demonstration.
259. 10:48to to defend you. And you remember
260. 10:51operation and the operation on Israel
261. 10:54sent to the end of the world to the
262. 10:56airplanes to release Jews. And the
263. 10:59picture of Yonyi Netanyahu who was
264. 11:01killed in this operation was in my wall
265. 11:04when they came to arrest me. And each
266. 11:07time when you hear the airplane in the
267. 11:11skies of Siberia, you think that can be
268. 11:15the airplane from Israel. So this
269. 11:17feeling that this my people will never
270. 11:20stop struggling for me that my that you
271. 11:23are part of this unique struggle which
272. 11:25continues h and that they will come and
273. 11:28that Israel will uh will bring you back
274. 11:33home that was very strong and so each
275. 11:36time when KGB was telling me almost with
276. 11:39disgust who is supporting you there are
277. 11:41only bunch of students and housewives
278. 11:44but you immediately remembered all those
279. 11:47students and housewives who were with
280. 11:50you in the struggle and you were
281. 11:52absolutely sure the struggle doesn't
282. 11:54stop for a moment and that's what gave
283. 11:56me the strength to continue.
284. 11:59Natan, thank you so much for for talking
285. 12:02to us about that and the moment that
286. 12:04Yonyi Netanyahu led the operation in
287. 12:071976. Um, the operation in Tbby was a
288. 12:11moment that I was not alive for, but it
289. 12:13is a moment that I grew up hearing all
290. 12:15about, watching movies about. And yes,
291. 12:17we do have an unpacked video, two videos
292. 12:19actually about Operation Inteb. Um, so
293. 12:21everyone should check that out. And we
294. 12:23have videos about you that I'll talk
295. 12:24about later. Um, we need a lot of
296. 12:26advice, all of us in the world, in the
297. 12:29Jewish world specifically. Um, could you
298. 12:31please give us advice, your best advice
299. 12:34for the Jewish world today to feel
300. 12:36connected to one another? What advice
301. 12:38could you give us?
302. 12:40So, you mean that now when we all have
303. 12:43to sit in our apartments and uh for me
304. 12:48the biggest challenge is that now I and
305. 12:51Vital cannot meet every day our
306. 12:54grandchildren as we used to do. uh and
307. 12:58some other people have other challenges
308. 13:01but uh the first advice I already gave
309. 13:04you you you have to feel that you're
310. 13:08part of the big struggle the struggle
311. 13:10against corona is also big global
312. 13:13struggle against very dangerous enemy
313. 13:16and each of us is a soldier so there is
314. 13:19uh meaning in the fact that we are
315. 13:21isolated and the better you follow these
316. 13:25rules the better soldier you are
317. 13:27contributing to general struggle. That's
318. 13:29first. Second,
319. 13:31don't let the circumstances
320. 13:35lead you. Don't feel yourself dependent
321. 13:37on the facts or the which don't depend
322. 13:40on you. Don't build projects. Oh, in a
323. 13:42week it will be finished and then I'll
324. 13:44go on on vacations. It doesn't depend on
325. 13:48you when it will be finished. If I was I
326. 13:51understood very quickly in the prison
327. 13:53that I don't know whether they will get
328. 13:56out alive. It doesn't depend on me. I
329. 13:58don't know when they'll be released if
330. 14:00at all. It doesn't depend on me. But I
331. 14:02do know that whether I will remain a
332. 14:05free person in prison. It depends on me.
333. 14:08So make things which plan things which
334. 14:11depend on you. You can plan okay and now
335. 14:13I'll in three days I'll read a book
336. 14:15which I finally can read. uh in a one
337. 14:19month I can learn a language which I
338. 14:21wanted to learn but I didn't have time
339. 14:23and so on and so on. So plan your life
340. 14:26and and rely on things which depend on
341. 14:30you but then fulfill them and then you
342. 14:32will will feel that you're not simply
343. 14:33wasting your time and you will not be
344. 14:35desperate. Third, maybe one of the most
345. 14:38important things, never lose your sense
346. 14:40of humor. Keep laughing, keep joking.
347. 14:43Thanks God. Thanks to internet, the god
348. 14:47of internet. We have millions of jokes I
349. 14:50receive in Hebrew, in English and
350. 14:53Russian every day about ourselves, about
351. 14:56our situation, about corona, about our
352. 14:59leaders. That helps you to see the world
353. 15:03in the real proportions. Don't stop
354. 15:06laughing on yourself for a moment. Uh,
355. 15:10use your hobbies. My great hobby was
356. 15:13chess. I knew how to play chess without
357. 15:16looking at the board. So, in the
358. 15:18punishing cell, I could play thousands
359. 15:21and thousands of chess games. Win all of
360. 15:23them. Feel yourself strong
361. 15:25intellectually. Uh, you don't have to
362. 15:27play without the board. You can play
363. 15:28with the board. You can draw, you can
364. 15:31sing, you can play music, you can do
365. 15:33whatever you want. That is your moment
366. 15:36to enjoy your life. And the most
367. 15:39important of course is
368. 15:41I'm
369. 15:43part of the great people who were
370. 15:45scattered all over the world for many
371. 15:48centuries. We lonely in small
372. 15:51communities. And nevertheless, we always
373. 15:54felt that we are part of the big people
374. 15:56with a big mission with a great future.
375. 15:59And that's so easy to feel it now today.
376. 16:02Never forget, never for a moment, forget
377. 16:05that you're part of something much
378. 16:07bigger than yourself.
379. 16:09Ton, thank you so much. Those are
380. 16:11incredibly inspiring words. I don't know
381. 16:13that all of us have the ability to play
382. 16:15chess the way you have the ability. I'm
383. 16:17not sure all of us could learn a
384. 16:18language in a month the way you probably
385. 16:19could learn a language in a month. Um
386. 16:21but nevertheless, the idea of pursuing
387. 16:24meaning, pursuing uh humor um and
388. 16:27feeling connected um is and and pursuing
389. 16:30our hobbies is is such an important
390. 16:31thing for all of us to be focused on
391. 16:32right now. Um and thank you so much for
392. 16:35that advice
393. 16:35and pursue your jokes. Don't forget
394. 16:37about jokes, you know.
395. 16:39Okay, deal sold. But let's put aside
396. 16:42Corona for a minute now, Natan. Um
397. 16:45let's take a step back. Let's imagine a
398. 16:47world that was pre-corona for a minute.
399. 16:50there was much conversation about a
400. 16:52large divide between North American
401. 16:55Jews, maybe specifically American Jews,
402. 16:57and Israeli Jews. Um, what do you
403. 16:59recommend to young people when it comes
404. 17:02to bridging this divide? How do we do
405. 17:05it?
406. 17:08Look, uh, first of all, you have to ask
407. 17:10yourself, do you really want to be part
408. 17:13of this family? And I think it's so
409. 17:17interesting when you discover already
410. 17:19discover in my case discovered at the
411. 17:21age of 20 this very interesting history
412. 17:25when you discover how cool it is to be
413. 17:27in connection with all the Jews. How
414. 17:29interesting it is to come to Israel and
415. 17:32to discover that it's more than young
416. 17:36full of energy place. So if you decide
417. 17:40that you are part of that you want to be
418. 17:42part of this family then you have to
419. 17:45understand that we are not uh twins we
420. 17:48are siblings we we chose to live in
421. 17:51different environment half of us chose
422. 17:54to live in Jewish state in Jewish
423. 17:57democratic state in the Middle East
424. 17:59surrounded with all these dictatorships
425. 18:02and part of us chose to live as a
426. 18:04minority in liberal society the country
427. 18:07like America Survival
428. 18:10strategies are different. Our interests
429. 18:12sometimes look different. But if you're
430. 18:14family, you have also to understand what
431. 18:17are the interests of the other part of
432. 18:18the family.
433. 18:20The fact that today so many
434. 18:23young Jews in diaspora are not ready to
435. 18:27appreciate fully the passion of this
436. 18:30struggle democratic struggle of Israel
437. 18:33for its right to exist as a democracy
438. 18:35among all these dictatorships or the
439. 18:38fact that so many Israelis
440. 18:41are not ready to appreciate the
441. 18:43importance of uh religious tolerance or
442. 18:48or the fact that in order to survive in
443. 18:51that environment in America, they need
444. 18:54all these different forms of the
445. 18:56expressing Judaism. And that builds kind
446. 19:00of intolerance or that why should we uh
447. 19:05do something to satisfy their needs
448. 19:07which are not part of our life, part of
449. 19:10our family. And the moment is first
450. 19:13understand that it is the your family
451. 19:16and you want to be part of this and the
452. 19:18other hand that for this you have to
453. 19:21love them as they are with their
454. 19:23interests with their preferences and you
455. 19:25have to understand these interests and
456. 19:28preferences. Uh then the bridges are
457. 19:32built by themselves and nothing is
458. 19:33difficult. It's so easy to accept them
459. 19:36as they are and to think what I can do
460. 19:40here in Israel. what can I do in my
461. 19:42community in order to feel closer to
462. 19:46them. So uh but that's struggle but it's
463. 19:52struggle which is worth fighting and in
464. 19:56the end you will enjoy because in the
465. 19:57end the price is that you feel yourself
466. 20:01part of this unique journey through
467. 20:04centuries of the unique people with
468. 20:07unique mission and uh it influences all
469. 20:11the world becomes better place when
470. 20:13you're proud part of this family.
471. 20:16Natan, if you weren't in Israel and you
472. 20:20were in LA here with me, or if I was in
473. 20:22Israel and it wasn't Corona virus ep
474. 20:25pandemic right now, I give you a huge
475. 20:26hug. Um, I want to thank you so much.
476. 20:30Um, I speak for many of us when I say
477. 20:33that you've had such a powerful impact
478. 20:35on our lives. uh without even knowing
479. 20:38each and every one of us. Um I got uh
480. 20:42someone mentioned from the Q&A that they
481. 20:44me that they named their child that that
482. 20:46they were named sorry after you. And
483. 20:48there's so many people like that because
484. 20:50I think what you represent to all of us
485. 20:52is um Jewish unity. What you represent
486. 20:55to all of us is aavat is love for all
487. 20:58Jewish people regardless of
488. 20:59denomination, regardless of political
489. 21:01affiliation. And what I heard you just
490. 21:03say is that if we start from a place of
491. 21:05aavat Israel, of love for Israel, then
492. 21:07it everything flows from there. We're
493. 21:10going to have differences and that's
494. 21:11okay. Families have differences. That's
495. 21:14okay. So Natan, thank you for giving us
496. 21:16permission to have differences and but
497. 21:18the permission starts from a place of
498. 21:19loving all Jewish people.
499. 21:22Thank you, Natan. Thank you so much for
500. 21:24your heroism. Thank you so much for
501. 21:26inspiring us with everything you do,
502. 21:28with the courage that you've that you've
503. 21:30shown throughout your life. Thank you.
504. 21:32Your English is much better than mine.
505. 21:34So you can keep expressing the same
506. 21:36ideas as I want to express, but your
507. 21:39much better English. Thank you.
508. 21:41Thank you, Natan. Um I don't know about
509. 21:43that. Um I also wanted to take this
510. 21:46opportunity um to remind all of you to
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532. 22:39out. Watch our video on let my people
533. 22:42go, the story of Soviet jury, the story
534. 22:44of the refusnix and our other video on
535. 22:46the women of Soviet jewelry, the women
536. 22:48of the refus movements who are many many
537. 22:51cases re the real heroins throughout the
538. 22:52whole story. So watch these videos um on
539. 22:55our YouTube channel YouTube.compacked
540. 22:58letmy people go and women of Soviet
541. 23:00jewelry. Um and I want to conclude by
542. 23:04reminding or not reminding telling you
543. 23:06all this is big. We have a new YouTube
544. 23:09show coming out. It's uh this session
545. 23:12with Natan was the first of a new series
546. 23:14that we at unpacked our beginning. It's
547. 23:16called game changers in which we will
548. 23:18bring a diverse group of distinguished
549. 23:20speakers into the virtual classroom
550. 23:22featuring speakers like Sarah Herurwitz
551. 23:24the former speech writer of the first
552. 23:26lady Michelle Obama. Yasi Klein Allevy
553. 23:29um incredible author of the
554. 23:31award-winning Like Dreamers. Elon Gold,
555. 23:34hilarious Jewish comedian. um he makes
556. 23:36me chuckle every single time I talk to
557. 23:38him. And of course Barry Weiss, New York
558. 23:40Times journalist and a and a leading
559. 23:42thinker in the fight against
560. 23:44anti-semitism.
561. 23:46So tune in this Wednesday at at um at
562. 23:5012:00 Pacific, 3:00 Eastern with our
563. 23:54first game changer episode. A link will
564. 23:56be posted in the chat um and with a pink
565. 24:00comment. click on it uh on YouTube and
566. 24:02you'll we will we will and if you if you
567. 24:04do that it'll remind you um right before
568. 24:06the event. So make sure to check us out
569. 24:08this coming Wednesday in two days where
570. 24:10I interview Sarah Herurwitz. Um and then
571. 24:13you see our list of game changers. Thank
572. 24:15you so much for joining us. Thank you so
573. 24:17much for being part of this. Thank you
574. 24:18so much for being part of this
575. 24:20incredible global Jewish community. And
576. 24:22in the words of Natan Sharansky Israel,
577. 24:26thank you so much.