Israeli Navy

Yair Golan was a former general deputy of chief of staff, which is a very senior position in the Israeli army, number two to the chief of staff.

Bennett, he was not a senior officer, but he was in Israel Navy's special forces, Sayeret Matkal, to those who knows, really like important unit with a very strong army background.

Eisenkot was former chief of staff.

Netanyahu himself, he was only a captain, but he was also in Sayeret Matkal's special forces, so he has this like military understanding.

And of course, Greece and Turkey are traditional foes in the region.

This drill involved the Israeli Navy, the Hellenic Navy in the Mediterranean Sea, which does appear to be a message to Turkey.

It comes just a few days after Turkey and Libya signed this agreement, which sort of demarcates their zones in the Mediterranean, which Israel and Greece and Cyprus and Egypt and a whole load of other countries in the Mediterranean are all opposed to.

But that didn't stop Turkey and Libya coming to this agreement.

So I supported on land in Tunisia for a little bit and then came back to the United States.

And when the boats, the flotilla boats were intercepted by the Israeli Navy, I started advocating for their release and trying to get my senators, Schumer, Gillibrand, and my other local elected officials to pay attention and use whatever resources levers that pull whatever levers they could to get our people released.

There were five New Yorkers too on that flotilla that were, um, you know, I say kidnapped by the Israeli Navy.

Detained or whatever.

Detained,

The harbor of Elas is closed.

I served in the Israeli Navy as a commander of ship, and the mission that we had, the mission of the Israeli Navy, is to keep...

All the harbors open in war.

You need to understand the Six-Day War actually started because the Egyptians cut off Eilat and actually closed the harbor because they didn't...

And, uh, she lost the child, but she never got married to Onassis, but they lived together for many years, including the Christina yacht that Onassis had belonged to my father-in-law, not as a yacht, but as a warship that he bought.

Three warships, sold two to the Israeli Navy, and one he couldn't get through because of the British blockade.

They, they wouldn't let any more armaments go into Israel.

At the time it was becoming a new nation.

Because I think now most-- the role of software engineers in the most AI advanced companies, not everywhere, it's gonna take some time to get everywhere, but in the most advanced companies, it's all about defining the behavior you want and then verifying that your code actually follow this behavior via automated tests, manual testing, and, um, and methods that allow you to verify this behavior.

I served in the Israeli Navy.

Uh, when I left the Israeli Navy, I started working in the Israeli, uh, tech startup scene, mainly on maritime naval machine learning systems.

So throughout my career, I worked with AI and machine learning, how it used to call, to be called.

And basically, the first setting was maritime system, naval system, where there are a lot of ships at sea.

The reason was not theoretical.

In two thousand and two, the Israeli Navy seized the Karine A, a ship carrying some fifty tons of Iranian arms bound for Palestinian Arab terrorists.

After Hamas seized Gaza in a bloody coup in two thousand and seven, Israel and Egypt, which also borders Gaza and whose role Wikipedia's first sentence somehow neglects, limited what could come in.

Calling that a blockade in the opening line of an article about a massacre is like opening the entry on a bank robbery by noting that the bank had locked its vault.

Adventure had been living in his imagination long before he ever stepped into the jungle.

By 1981, Yossi had completed his military service in the Israeli Navy and was traveling through South America.

He was young, curious, and looking for exactly the kind of experience that felt bigger than an ordinary trip.

As he moved through the region, that search for adventure eventually brought him into Bolivia.

Mm-hmm.

Um, Yoav Gallant is a, a former Israeli Navy Seal, uh, a sort of, uh, gruff general, uh, retired general type, um, who had become Israel's defense minister.

Now, he was part of Netanyahu's party, but he sort of joined it out of convenience, and then Netanyahu had actually tried to fire him.

Indeed, had publicly announced his firing not that long before the war.