Skip to playerSkip to main content
  • 1 week ago
In 1948, a group of World War II pilots volunteered to fight for Israel in the War of Independence. | dG1fSUxlYUJoN1NkOWc
Transcript
00:00I grew up in an age of very virulent anti-semitism.
00:13I didn't deny my Judaism, but I wasn't happy about being Jewish.
00:20What changed me was knowing what Hitler did to the Jews.
00:27I couldn't live with myself if I didn't do this.
00:33It was desperation time in Palestine, and I said, look, I know there's going to be a
00:38war there, and I'm a fighter pilot, and I want to go there.
00:41The 1948 war was the most significant of the Israeli-Arab wars.
00:46It was a matter of life and death.
00:48I was going to help the Jews out.
00:51I was going to help my people out.
00:55We landed at Natal, Brazil, got to Casablanca, Rome.
00:59We headed one of the town.
01:01We weren't looking for trouble, but we were always looking for action.
01:04We were young, good-looking, had hair.
01:06We had a lot of testosterone, and we didn't want to waste it.
01:13The airplane just sunk like this.
01:15We were flying wild-tough cocktail.
01:19I knew, actually, you're going to die.
01:28You want to stop us, shoot us down.
01:30I knew what had happened to other downed pilots, and I wasn't going to be taken prisoner.
01:44I said to the guys, we will never surrender.
01:47There will not be another Holocaust.
01:51Maybe God spared us in World War II so that we could help the remnants of our people survive.
01:57I was born to be here in that moment of history.
02:13How to live?
Be the first to comment
Add your comment

Recommended