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b"Bullet holes and toppled furniture bear witness to what happened in the home of one young couple living in Israel close to the border with Gaza on Oct. 7. Their home still partially stands, but they\\u2014and about 100 other members of their small community\\u2014are dead.\\xa0\\nWalking through the streets of the small village, Joel Griffith says, \\u201cYou could tell it once was a very beautiful place.\\u201d\\xa0\\nGriffith, who is Jewish and serves as a research fellow in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation, recently returned from a trip to Israel. His mission was both to \\u201csupport, but also bear witness to the evil\\u201d that took place in Israel on Oct. 7 when Hamas carried out a brutal terrorist attack that killed about 1,200 people.\\xa0\\nWalking out of the home of the slain couple, Griffith says, he saw two \\u201cJewish men playing guitar and singing, and gathered around them were others\\u2014soldiers, non-soldiers, Israelis, non-Israelis (such as myself), people who were religious, people who visibly weren't religious, but all gathered together singing.\\u201d\\xa0\\nOne of the songs they sang, according to Griffith, was \\u201cAm Yisrael Chai,\\u201d which translates to \\u201cThe people of Israel live.\\u201d\\xa0\\nStanding there singing in a \\u201cplace where so many lives were lost\\u201d and with \\u201cgunfire\\u201d and the sounds of \\u201cartillery\\u201d in the background, \\u201cwas a powerful moment,\\u201d he says.\\xa0\\nGriffith joins \\u201cThe Daily Signal Podcast\\u201d to discuss what he saw and heard in Israel three months after the Hamas terrorist attack.\\xa0\\nEnjoy the show!\\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information."