i think you remember some of this, ras. Bcause i know you lived in israel as a child in those years between the sixth day war of 19 67 and the omki poor war of 19 73. October sixth, 19 73 is really a turning point for israel in many ways. And any of the summer of love by 19 73 is a distant memory. Is four years earlier. So the sixties are still going on. And in israel, the sixties really end with the omekeeper war. In a kind of metaphysical way. You know, i guess with that famous rolling stone's show that goes awry altamon at the altamon, at the
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.