Is There a War That Feels Like Mori Feat?

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In the early days of the war, israel's overrun. But it takes three weeks for Israel to disengage and disentanglement. And eventually there's a disengagement agreement that ultimately leads to a peace agreement. As soon as the army has has bee offended off the mion and won the war, that's when the recriminations really start. A people get very, very angry. It starts with a small protest at owly. After 19 73, this kind of upbeat, scinist type music was no longer popular. That whole style really goes out after 73. I it's really, i guess, beginning of the israel that we have to day.

In October 1973, an unhappy Leonard Cohen was listening to the radio on his Greek island home when he heard that Israel was at war. He headed to Tel Aviv, exchanging a personal and creative crisis for a national one. Absent a plan and even a guitar, Cohen wound up serenading Israeli soldiers at the front. Journalist Matti Friedman talks about his book Who by Fire with EconTalk host Russ Roberts and explains how a songwriter and a nation were transformed in the crucible of war.