Ran Bar-Yoshafat: 400 days in IDF combat, Israel's PR war & what winning looks like | Lital Shemesh

On this episode of Lital Shemesh Israel Debrief:His child was born while he was fighting in Gaza. After 400 days across four fronts, Ran Bar-Yoshafat returns with a message: Israel isn't just winning on the battlefield - it can win the information war too. But only if it finally decides to fight it. Ran Bar Yoshafat was the Deputy Director of the Kohelet Policy Forum. IN THIS EPISODE:🪖 400 DAYS. FOUR FRONTS.Gaza, Lebanon, Judea & Samaria, Syria. Bar-Yoshafat shares what he actually saw inside Gaza - Nazi symbols on the walls of every home, Zero medical equipment in any hospital he entered.📢 CANCELED AT BERKELEYThe birthplace of the free speech movement. 300 rioters. A Jewish student choked until she bled from her neck. Another's wrist broken while crowds chanted "You Jew, you Jew." He was evacuated. No one was held accountable.📺 THE MEDIA'S ONE-SIDED WARHow a false report blaming Israel for an Islamic Jihad rocket spread globally in minutes — and why correction never catches up to the lie.🇺🇳 THE UN AS AN INSTRUMENT OF HATREDWhy UNRWA and the Human Rights Council violate the UN's own charter, and how entire UN bodies exist with a singular mandate: to criticize Israel.🎯 THE 70% IN THE MIDDLE5-15% are pro-Israel. 5-15% are against. The battle is for the 70% who don't care yet. Bar-Yoshafat's plan: go from 10 advocates to 10,000.💡 ISRAEL'S PR FAILUREWhy "we invented the USB stick" is the wrong message when your enemy is calling you colonizers, and what Israel must say instead.👶 MARRIED ON DAY FOUR. A FATHER IN GAZA.The deeply personal story of how Bar-Yoshafat built a family in the middle of a war, and why it only strengthened his resolve.