The Death of the 'New Jew' | The Caroline Glick Show

A striking feature of the Left’s anti-government campaign has been the prominence of veterans of the 1973 Yom Kippur War in the effort. Yom Kippur War veterans lead the campaign, plan most of its operations, are its key funders and serve as prominent foot soldiers. The question is why? What happened in that war that radicalized so many of its soldiers? How did that war affect Israeli society in the fifty years since the war?

To answer these questions and to understand the main foundation of the civil unrest Israel has been suffering since February, Caroline’s guest on this week’s Caroline Glick Show is Prof. Elisha Haas.

Haas, is a world-renowned professor of bio-physics and the former head of Professors for a Strong Israel. In the Yom Kippur War, Haas served as a reserve company commander in a mechanized infantry brigade that fought in the Golan Heights and Syria.

They discuss
- the different ideological camps that have been in conflict since the establishment of the State.
- the profound effect that the Yom Kippur War had on socialist Zionism.
- why so many veterans from that war are fighting against the Netanyahu government.