this is also how yuval appelboim's nephew spent his fourth birthday.heir father has been called up to fight with the israel defense forces, or idf. >> my family are in the bomb shelter. no electricity. some of them were locked in the gaza strip outskirts. just fearing for their lives, having no way to go even to the bathroom. i don't know -- not knowing what's happening because there were terrorists walking around from outside their houses. i have a friend who was murdered on the way to help innocent civilians. i have an uncle who had a missile that fell a house next to him. >> reporter: yuval shared this photo of the damage. he happens to be in san francisco for the first time on a two week trip as a graduate exchange student studying the middle east. he's also a reservist combat officer in the idf. >> this is an undescribable experience. we can't even start to say what our feelings, we obviously -- we are here, we're stuck here, we can't -- our flights back are canceled. and we have to find a different solution to go back and help our families, help

yuval says they were under attack, trapped in that tank for hours. he still sees their faces. >> you look at them and how can you do this to someone like -- all they saw was hate and trying to murder you. so, we just fought for our lives, and everybody got together, hold everything close, trying to pray that they won't get -- won't get to open the tank, won't explode it, and god was with us. that's all i can say. >> david: well, glad you're okay. that you survived. >> yeah. >> david: and you have your leg. >> yeah. >> david: they say it's going to be okay? >> yeah, i think. >> david: okay. thank you. >> thank you. >> david: a young soldier who thought he would die in that tank. tonight, israel now amassing 300,000 soldiers on the border with gaza. our chief foreign correspondent ian pannell takies us to the border tonight. >> reporter: tonight, israel on a war footing. 100,000 reservists amassing in the south, moving towards gaza. this conflict looks set to enter a new phase, a ground invasion could be imminent. we're starting to see large-scale move

and israeli historian yuval noah harari on an horrific week.srael will emerge from this catastrophe more united, stronger, with a very, very different leadership, and a very different world view. "a tide of humanity" is moving from northern gaza to the south, as more than 2 million palestinians in the gaza strip prepare for an expected ground offensive by israeli troops. there are frantic diplomatic talks, firstly to ease what israeli officials have called the "siege" of gaza, where there's a deepening humanitarian crisis — clean water is running out, as are food supplies — and also to try to prevent this conflict spreading across the region. the us secretary of state is still in the region, having postponed going back to the us tonight, and president biden appears to be weighing up an invitation to visit israel. meanwhile, the israeli military says it now knows the identities of 199 people — including children and the elderly — who were taken hostage by hamas in gaza. it says their families have been informed and there is growing anger and fru

. >> his name is yuval and he is a reservist combat officer . he was supposed to meet with students this week but now he is focused on his family's safety and his country's future. >>> another cool and cloudy day in the bay area. rain making its debut once again with the second cold front of the week. by 2:00, notice how it sweeps through the bay area. we will see speckles of showers here and there. don't be shocked if you have to use your windshield wipers. but it will move through in the overnight hours and we are left with dry conditions into our forecast for tomorrow. we will get about .01 of an inch of rain. the big story for us, these cool and cloudy conditions, a little bit of rain and cooler temperatures giving us that fall like weather after last week's heatwave. the 60s from the north bay to the santa clara valley. san francisco sitting at 66. it will look very similar off to the east bay and san jose, sitting in the 70s. >>> up next, your money watch report and the israel/hamas conflict already having an impact on crude oil prices. co

israel under a different name: the performance of how we buried joseph visserionovich, directed by yuval not here, but it was not planned, these are his colleagues who follow his activities, in fact, well , they saw him there, began to study him, wrote to me , can you imagine, here he is... in our feodoria and there he is ilin, well, the man can’t even decide who he really or maybe all this time he was trying to somehow disguise and hide - well, his last name , under which he worked in the city of krasnoyarsk, because the deputy of the legislative assembly of krasnoyarsk published this information, he received death threats, but in fact not elena penzina discovered the double life of theodori, a foreigner, or did the white man not keep track of his language? we are playing now, we made one from a reading of solomon ’s play by arthur solomonov, how we buried joseph veserenovich, it is already quite famous all over the world, he does these readings, and here roma feodori, the director, did such a reading, almost a performance, either he didn’t think in his hearts, he talked about the fact

. >> reporter: yuval can not help but wonder what his fate will be if he was there. >> if i was there october 7th, i would be one of those kidnapped or one of those killed. the fact that i am here right now maybe it is to get to know the jewish community. i will do whatever it takes to get us back. >> palestinians are also watching in horror. earlier tonight i talked to a san francisco native who's parents are from gaza. he talked about the fear and anxiety he and others have been feeling. >> i still have aunts and an uncle, cousins, we try to reach them every opportunity that we can to check in on them. every morning their time we check in to see if they survived during the evening. and so it is just, unfortunately for palestinians every few years we have to deal with this emotional roller coaster. every moment not knowing if your no, ma'am members are going to make it or not. so it is a pretty difficult time. >> what have they been hearing and seeing. >> it is destruction, massive destruction everywhere. just, you know, carpet bombing, you can not sleep. it is difficult for them to

in israel, under by another name, the performance of how we buried joseph vesarionovich, director yuval last name is not here, but it was not planned, these are his colleagues. those who follow his activities, in fact, well, they saw him there, began to study him and wrote to me, just imagine, here he is in feadori, and there he is ilin, well, the man can’t even make up his mind, who he really is, or maybe he tried to somehow disguise it all this time, to hide, well, his last name, under which he worked in the city of krasnoyarsk, because the deputy from the legislative assembly of krasnoyarsk published this information, she received death threats, but in fact it was not elena penzina who discovered theodori’s double life, foreign agent anatoly bely did not keep track of the language, we are playing now, this was made from a reading of solomon’s play arthur solomonov, how we buried iosifanovich, he is already quite famous all over the world , he does these readings, and here roma feodori the director - he did such a reading, it was almost a performance, or he didn’t think in his hearts,

intelligence services, these are such veteran bison as ephraim halivi, but this is younger, tamir parda, and yuval direction, and they began to say, this, i have been following this for a long time, they began to talk about this. several years ago, could iran be hit? well on in my opinion, i completely agree, this is, in general, a story with an uncertain end, and moreover, this could have such catastrophic consequences for israel, after all, israel in terms of total power, although in my opinion it occupies eighteenth place there in the world, but it is inferior to iran , but in terms of mobilization resources, these are, of course, incomparable things, plus iran... i believe that it already has nuclear weapons, but this, this is a path to disaster, and yes, all the conditions have been created for the perfect storm, in one place the strategic interests of the leading countries of the world have converged, these include social problems, political, military, religious, and this perfect storm will suck everyone into this funnel , without exception, including americans , so of course, this one, than

. >> reporter: it is probably the tightest hug yuval has ever given his son. >> it's a miracle. i don't have any other words. that's -- amazing miracle that i see my son here. >> just happy that i'm here. you know, alive. that's it. >> reporter: roei was in israel at the music festival that ultimately became the site of a terrorist massacre. he was there with five cousins when rockets started flying overhead. and the shooting began. he called his dad in los angeles to tell him what was going on. >> i was on the line with him and then the phone hang up. no signal. i didn't know where him -- eight hours maybe, i didn't know, where is my kid. i believe the worst happened. and it's a miracle that i see him right now. >> reporter: roei says he ran for four hours straight, leaving everything behind, including the shirt he had on. he wouldn't realize how lucky he was until later after news broke that 260 people had been killed there. >> finally i -- i hear that they took him to a safe place. i was relaxed. but i waiting for this day. to see him here with me. >> reporter: and it wasn't

i'm yuval levin. i'm a scholar here at the american enterprise institute, and it is my great honor and pleasure to welcome all of you to aei for this special forum to mark the 60th anniversary of the march on washington. the march took place on august 28th of 1963, so we're a little early marking the anniversary and we decide it to be a little early so that we could bring together people who will otherwise be scattered across a variety of events and celebrations this month. and as a result, we really do have an extraordinary lineup of sessions today looking at the march and its legacy and the broader civil rights movement from a variety of angles, thinking about what it has to say to us now in ways that are both timeless and timely. we're going to hear from scholars, from journalists, from policy thinkers, from religious leaders. some of them are colleagues here at aei, including our president, robert doar, who has a lifelong connection to the civil rights movement and conceived of this event. and som

. >> reporter: it is probably the tightest hug yuval has ever given his son. >> it's a miracle. have any other words. that's -- amazing miracle that i see my son here. just happy that i'm here. >> you know, alive. that's it. >> reporter: roy was in israel at the music festival that ultimately became the site of a terrorist massacre. he was there with five cousins when rockets started flying overhead. and the shooting began. he called his dad in los angeles to tell him what was going on. >> i was on the line with him and then the phone hang up. no signal. i didn't know where him -- eight hours maybe, i didn't know where is my kid. i believe the worst happened. and it's a miracle that i see him right now. >> reporter: roy says he ran for four hours straight leaving everything behind including the shirt he had on. he wouldn't realize how lucky he was until later. after news broke that 260 people had been killed there. >> finally i -- i hear that they took him to a safe place. i was relaxed. but i waiting for this day. to see him here with me. >> reporter: and it wasn't just his son

it's from yuval noah harari, author of the best-selling book "sapiens ". >> israel has just experienced they hid in their house as terrorists were butchering their neighbors. i received word that they somehow survived. many of my friends have just received the worst news of their lives. we know three things about this horrendous attack. first, hamas aimed to kill civilians. second, the victims were tortured and executed in the most gruesome ways the terrorists could imagine. third, instead of hiding the atrocities, hamas made sure they will be publicized. why do such a thing? because hamas is waging a war on our souls, like isis, hamas uses unspeakable atrocities to terrify millions and to sow seeds of hatred and violence. hamas is thereby committing a crime against humanity. it is not just killing humans. hamas is trying to destroy our trust in humanity and thereby destroy our own humanity. a vicious cycle of violence now threatens to consume the entire region, ruining the lives of millions of palestinians as well as israelis. but the people of israel are stronger than hamas thinks. wi

and joining us now, professor of history at hebrew university of jerusalem, yuval noah herari.ery much for joining us. >> thank you. so, first of all, i want to ask you about the president's trip in the context of what you have written in some of your latest pieces. you say what hamas has done is a crime against humanity in the deepest sense of the term. a crime against humanity isn't just about killing humans, it's about destroying our trust in humanity. when you witness things like parents being tortured and executed in front of their children or toddlers brutally murdered, you lose all trust in human beings and you thereby risk losing your own humanity, too. hamas' crimes cannot be justified by blaming them on past israeli conduct. two wrongs don't make a right. there's much to criticize israel for holding millions of palestinians for decades under occupation or for abandoning recent years any serious attempt to make peace. at the same time, this is an atrocity that's beyond description. so what is the challenge for president biden as he stands with israel, given the problem