FIDF Live

FIDF Chief Executive Officer Steve Weil welcomes Cpt. (Res.) Odelia of the Search and Rescue Brigade to discuss her unique background as the granddaughter of German Christians who came to Israel after World War 2 to open a nursing home for Holocaust survivors. She describes her experiences in the IDF on and after October 7th, where she searched for human remains in Kibbutz Be'eri. Cpt. Odelia also elaborates on her mission in Gaza during the war and her previous experiences in the Search and Rescue Brigade. Finally, the two talk about Cpt. Odelia's brother, Urija, who was mortally wounded while fighting in Gaza.

(Recorded 06/23/2024)

FIDF Chief Executive Officer Steve Weil welcomes Jewish Educator & Israel Advocate Rabbi Leo Dee, to tell us the tragic story of his wife and daughters being killed in a terror attack in April of last year.

FIDF Chief Executive Officer Steve Weil welcomes Brig. Gen. (Res) Nitzan Nuriel, Deputy Commander of the Israeli Staff Command and former Head of the Counter Terrorism Bureau at the Prime Minister’s Office to provide an update on how the IDF is trying to avoid casualties, the mission to make sure Hamas does not stay in power, how Syria, Iran, and Egypt factor in to all of this, the preparation for the possibility of a Lebanon War, and more.

(Recorded 06/09/2024)

FIDF CEO, Steve Weil is joined by Human Rights Lawyer and CEO of the International Legal Forum, Arsen Ostrovsky to discuss the actions of the ICJ and ICC and their adjudications, their weaponization of law, the risks this ongoing terror poses to the United States and every democracy, the strong efforts the IDF has gone through to minimize civilian deaths and more.

FIDF Chief Executive Officer Steve Weil is joined by Richard D. Heideman, Senior Counsel at Heideman Nudelman & Kalik, PC and Joseph Tipograph, Attorney at

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FIDF Chief Executive Officer welcomes Major Lior Shweitzer, the Deputy Head of the COGAT International Relations Branch to provide a briefing on the situation in Israel before October 7, the strategic and tactical mechanisms the IDF are working on in order to improve and expand aid, the routes in which aid enters the Gaza Strip, new humanitarian aid measures, the ratio of aid waiting to be collected by the UN vs. what has been provided, the work they do to organize a process to get the aid to evacuated civilians and more.

Maj. (Res.) Michal, and IDF Causalities Officer, joins FIDF Chief Executive Officer Steve Weil from Israel to discuss and observe this particularly unique, difficult, but significant Yom HaZikaron.

Michal tells us what Yom HaZikaron is like in Israel, what it means to the country, and why and how this year will be different than ever before.

(Recorded 05/12/2024)

FIDF Chief Executive Officer Steve Weil welcomes back Jonathan Schanzer, Senior Vice President for Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and Former U.S. Treasury Finance Terror Analyst to our FIDF Briefings to break down a potential new phase of the war, the Turks closing off trade with Israel, the hostage deal discussions, the activity on the Lebanon border and more.

(Recorded 05/05/2024)

FIDF Chief Executive Officer Steve Weil tells the story of Passover and its lasting effects on human history as well as relevance in modern times.

(Recorded 04/21/2024)

FIDF Chief Executive Officer Steve Weil welcomes back Jonathan Schanzer, Senior Vice President for Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and Former U.S. Treasury Finance Terror Analyst to our FIDF Briefings to breakdown what occurred overnight with the IDF and Iran.

(Recorded 04/19/2024)