Nesli Barda – Heroes

About: Heroes

60 minutes | Accompanied by a presentation | Required equipment: projector, screen, sound system, wireless microphone

Nesli Barda delivers a new lecture about the heroes and heroines born following the events on October 7th.
On that terrible day, an entire country was shocked and shaken, but in those dark hours, stories of heroism arrised that are so amazing that they are almost hard to understand.
In her lecture, Nesli tells the stories of women and men, girls and even children, who, in the moment of truth, discovered astonishing powers, did the impossible facing the erupting evil and saved lives.
Following the successful series "Heroes," Nesli will share in her lecture the amazing stories of the girl Gali from the Gaza Strip, the commander Ron from Zikim, and the commander of the Bardelas Unit, Adi and many others, as the Klemenson brothers, the Bedouin scout Fawaz, and many others who redefine the word heroism.

Speaker Biography: Nesli Barda

Nesli Barda is an Israeli journalist and news presenter, Israeli radio and television personality.

She Is known for her hard-hitting investigative reporting and she also a talented documentary filmmaker.

Among her many achiements as an investigative and documentary journalist:

"Behind the Scenes of the Interns' Struggle"
"The Illusionist" – an investigation into Eyal Klein
"The Swine Flu Failures" investigation
"The Romanian Egg Trade Scandal"
A documentary investigation into African refugees in Israel.
A documentary project in the prematurity department at Sheba Medical Center, which was nominated for the Documentary Creators Forum Award.
A documentary project that follows social workers in their work for the first time.

During the Second Lebanon War, she broadcast live reports from the northern border. She spoke about the war period:

"In a way, it also made people identify me with that period… You are the main mediator of information to tens of thousands of people at home, there is an excitement that cannot be ignored. But these days can also be a nightmare. The initial effect is fatigue, but not just fatigue, but a serious and general exhaustion that accompanies you even weeks later. There is a limit to how much the brain, nerves and adrenaline can bear without there being internal resistance to continue being in places where there is death and destruction. But the job demands it, so you have to put it aside and keep going.".

In 2018, Nesli hosts the documentary program "One in a Million" and in the last year she hosted a late night current affaires show "People".

After the events of October 7th, Nesli created and hosted the documentary show "Heroes", which describes heroic stories during the horrifying attack on Israel.