{"id":522238,"date":"2026-07-02T20:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/522238\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T20:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:31:10","slug":"a-top-leadership-expert-closely-observed-israel-at-its-darkest-moment-heres-why-he-still-has-hope-for-its-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/522238\/","title":{"rendered":"A Top Leadership Expert Closely Observed Israel at Its Darkest Moment. Here&#8217;s Why He Still Has Hope for Its Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh x103ahzr x6ikm8r x10wlt62\">On October 7, 2023, Micha Popper followed his years-long Saturday morning routine of bicycling with a group of friends along the beach not far from Zichron Yaakov, south of Haifa. As the Hamas attack unfolded, the bikers, all former members of elite units in the Israel Defense Forces \u2013 and regulars in the protest movement against the government&#8217;s regime coup \u2013 returned to their homes, but not for long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On October 7, 2023, Micha Popper followed his years-long Saturday morning routine of bicycling with a group of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,92215,94,954,43,3215],"class_list":["post-522238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-education","tag-israel-protest","tag-israeli-politics","tag-news","tag-october-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}