The Arab Muslim Who Risked Everything for Israel | Yahya Mahamid

00:00 Preview: The Arab Who Chose Israel 01:07 From Hating Jews to Defending Israel 03:35 What I Was Taught About Jews Growing Up 06:18 How Nazi Ideology Reached the Arab World 08:23 The Chabad Rabbi Who Changed My Life 10:43 I Defended Israel... Then Everything Changed 14:20 Why Most Arabs Stay Silent About Israel 19:55 I Lost Everything for Speaking Out 22:56 Why I Fought So Hard to Join the IDF 25:20 Finding Brotherhood in the IDF 27:45 The Hidden Story of Israeli Arabs Serving Israel 30:19 My Mother Didn't Know I Joined the Army 34:05 October 7: The Day Everything Changed 35:45 Trapped in a Bomb Shelter Under Rocket Fire 39:20 My Wife Saved My Life 41:45 Friends Murdered on October 7 44:15 Hamas Didn't Just Attack Israel... They Attacked Life Itself 46:40 The Biggest Lesson the World Still Hasn't Learned 49:37 My Message to Every Young Arab 53:21 Hope Is Stronger Than Hate Many people know Yahya Mahamid today as one of the strongest Arab voices publicly defending Israel. But that isn't how his story began. Yahya grew up believing many of the same things about Jews and Israel that millions of children across the Middle East are taught from a young age. He believed those ideas