On October 1st, as Iran released 200 ballistic missiles at Israel, Carine Bassili released her song “October Rain” to the world. Her courageous decision to translate Israeli Eurovision contestant Eden Golan’s song "Hurricane" into Arabic was the obvious next step in her solidarity with Israel. Carine, a devout Christian Lebanese women was banned from Lebanon in 2020, for musically collaborating with her Israeli friend. She doesn't view herself as fearless. Rather, she sees herself as a woman standing with truth, justice, history and hope.

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Ashira Solomon is a News personality, host of “The Black and Jewish Podcast," co-host of “The Quad” and a political commentator. She is a wealth of information, facts, history, and thinks and speaks in nuance through a lens of context and reason. Her voice is recognized internationally. Her breadth of knowledge on the middle east is tremendous. She advocates for dialoguing with facts and truth and urges people to refrain from their binary stance on so many topics for which a black and white approach is inaccurate and harmful. 

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Today, my discussion is with Yael Noy CEO of Road to Recovery, an organization where Israeli volunteers provide round trip transportation for Palestinian patients from Gaza and the West Bank border crossings to Israeli hospitals for life saving medical treatments.

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Iris Shtein served as the Director of strategic partnerships at ARC innovation center at Sheba Hospital for 5 years, where she most recently led an AI initiative called LIV. This platform offers an interactive conversational interface with its users. Utilizing the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria, LIV assists mental health professionals in diagnosing conditions such as PTSD, depression and anxiety. 

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Iris Shtein served as the Director of strategic partnerships at ARC innovation center at Sheba Hospital for 5 years, where she most recently led an AI initiative called LIV. This platform offers an interactive conversational interface with its users. Utilizing the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria, LIV assists mental health professionals in diagnosing conditions such as PTSD, depression and anxiety. 

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Avner Halperin, CEO of Sheba Medical center’s Impact division, discusses the double bottom line of innovating to change healthcare, while generating economic growth. In this synergistic environment, Sheba’s clinicians and engineers work side by side, efficiently iterating for the benefit and improvement of global health care.

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Gaby Hilkowitz Rurka discusses her role as a volunteer Psychological first Aid responder for United Hatzalah’s psycho trauma unit. 

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Yamen Lawrence is a proud Arab Israeli gay activist. He was raised in Nazareth where he had to hide his identity while enduring years of emotional and physical bullying from fellow Arab classmates. When coming out to his Muslim family, many disowned him. Yamen now lives in Tel Aviv, openly gay and a member of a vibrant, thriving and supportive community where living his truth is both protected and celebrated.

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How important is it to say you’re Jewish if you are? Eitan Chitayat, CEO of Natie Branding Agency feels it’s critical. We discuss the urgent need to use one’s voice to stand proudly as a Jew and deploy the Jewish narrative so that all the misinformation and untruths can be exposed, allowing for the celebration of the Jewish People.

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Shir Weiss is a Fashion design teacher at Max Payne High School in Tel Aviv. In response to the jarring Silence by the United Nations Women, regarding the rapes and sexual abuses of women, at the hands of Hamas, during the October 7th terrorist attack on Israel, she inspired her student to create extraordinary drawings of women and hung them for public view Tel Aviv. Additionally, Shir and her colleagues helped their students design and create clothing for their end of year fashion show called, “The Garment Remembers,” commemorating 14 victims murdered at the Nova Music festival.

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