Director Isri Halpern spent more than two decades tracing the story of Herschel Grynszpan, the Jewish teenager who shot a German diplomat in Paris and on whose 17-year-old shoulders an immense burden was placed. “Proud Jewish Boy,” aired on Kan 11 on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, tells the unsettling story.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan boasted that his country could act against Israel just as it did in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh. But a close look at Turkey's military capabilities leads to a clear conclusion: Any such attempt would be doomed to fail. There is, however, another scenario, no less dangerous than a direct invasion, that should alarm the IDF.
Israel does not seek war with Turkey. It prepares for it. The Iran campaign was the laboratory: layered defence under saturation, calibrated strikes below escalation, and the limits of diplomacy under pressure.
Senior IDF officials say that, as far as the military is concerned, troops will remain in the area "until long-term security for residents of the north is guaranteed." The IDF reports extensive operations in southern Lebanon, with the main focus on Bint Jbeil, a Hezbollah stronghold.
The second, less-discussed lesson of the catastrophe: An independent Jewish state is the cure for the disease of exile; only in our own land are we not dependent Jews living under others’ protection, but a free people defending itself and the future of its sons and daughters
