Nurit is Miko Peled’s sister. They are children of a founding IDF general.
1:52 “I think many people expected it [Oct. 7th] to happen. I think the writing was on the wall. The government was warned by the army and by the intelligence, by the people who lived there themselves, who saw preparations and so on. But the government chose to ignore it. Not only that, they took the army out of this border, and they took most of the weapons from the units inside the Kibbutzim, who were supposed to guard the places. And this happened a very short time before the attack.”
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Nurit Peled-Elhanan is an Israeli philologist, professor of language and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, translator, and activist. She is a 2001 co-laureate of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought awarded by the European Parliament.
In 1997, Nurit’s daughter, Smadar, was killed during the Ben Yehuda street Palestinian suicide attack.
We speak today about the silencing of internal critics in Israel, the Israeli education system and the propaganda in place in Israel from a very early age, to the “Where do we go now?” question.