 I was literally part of the team that opened this place some 10 years ago. It was dramatic to come in here post-construction, blow the sawdust off the table and get to work building the first broadcast for the channel. Even with all the experiences of that first year and being here 10 years later, everything we've done since, nothing compares to the tension-filled news period of that summer of 2014, all leading up to the ground invasion of Gaza. Day 7 of Israel Defense Force Operation Protective Edge. I was in the studio under rocket sirens, rocket attacks, where there'd be one person left the control room, me sitting there seeing the newsroom clearing out the corner of my eye and continuing to talk to the camera about the moment we were in. Real confronts Hamas in and around the Gaza Strip, we're joining me now on set. I've been exposed to the conflict for many years but something about that summer was just so much more unsettling than anything ever before, maybe something inside me knew that there was more coming. The big night came the night at the IDF ground invasion of Gaza. We were here until well after two in the morning covering that, exhausted. You know, I went home, I think it was by 7 a.m. already. The IDF was calling me, one of the mobile reserves here, sending them off to the war. We got those phone calls and by Friday night we were already told by our officers, we'd be inside Gaza in 48 hours and you're going from one minute, you're in your job, you're in your normal life, the next minute you're being sent off to war, a collective experience that somebody had that summer. It was a wholly unique experience for me covering the war, telling the story to the international audience, covering those soldiers to the next day being one of those soldiers out there in the front lines. I mean truly it's given me perspective that I've carried with me here ever since on covering this conflict.