Video from Batch 2025-06-07 13:09 #76

What do you think of the idea of national service, mandatory national service as a means of trying? I love it. I love it. No, I love it. I mean, I talk with Chris Coons, who's one of my best friends in Washington, about this all the time. It doesn't have to be the Peace Corps. It doesn't have to be military. It has to be some form of volunteerism that's civic. Young people need to be a part of something that is bigger than themselves. One of the reasons Israel has been so successful for its own citizens, not for the Palestinians, obviously, is because everyone has to engage in service. That's where you meet everybody. It's a leveler. And by the way, one of the things that's been positive about this war in Gaza, and there's almost nothing that's been positive, is that the far right in Israel, the Hasidim, who used to always say we don't want any part in national service, are now increasingly saying, no, we don't want that exception. We think that we need to actually fight like everybody else does. We can't be free riders. We need to be a part of the country. And that will help integrate the Israeli people together to a greater degree. I think that's important.