What was it like actually coming back? How did you feel once you came back and went through the process of voting? How did that line up or not with what you were feeling before you got on the plane?

Well, it actually felt really great.

It felt great four years after the coalition was formed and three years after October 7 to go in and cast my vote and say, please get the hell out of my life.

It felt great to finally have like an official way to vote.

convey what i think about this coalition and um i really hope the results like the final results after everyone is you know we get all the votes and we have the final results and everyone does their politics or whatever that we do say goodbye to this terrible terrible coalition uh and i i mean i i loved casting my vote i felt very optimistic um And it was great seeing other people around, you know, full of hope.

I'm glad I'm here for that.

I think I would have been so

So if your wish for Netanyahu to be gone is achieved, how are you feeling about Gadi Eizenkot?

How did October 7th affect how you're thinking about this election and why you want to be there to vote?

October 7th changed everything for me.

I'm a pretty happy person by default and October 7 basically just broke me.

I was in bed crying for two months.

I'm a philosopher.

That's what I do for a living.

And for two years, since October 7, 2023 until October 13, 2025, when the last living hostages were released from Gaza, I didn't want to do any philosophy.

What has she told you?

Yeah

... with their children, and they're playing around on their date, when they're, like, 12 or something.

And then, um, the, like, Ha Sung's mom is like, "Why are you leaving? You, like, you have it good here.

Like, you have, your husband is a director, and you're an artist." And, and the mother says, uh, Nora's mother says, um, I have it somewhere, but, uh...

Oh, "If you leave something behind, you gain something, too." Uh, and I think, like, nothing about romance is being discussed at this point.

I mean, of course, the kids are kinda like, but even that, it's unclear at this moment that this is, like, where...

It's really just about certain choices in life that give you a bunch of stuff, but a- at the cost of other big things in your life.

Yeah.