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Several years ago, I hosted a Dialogue Meeting in my home, this type of meeting is one of the most important activities of the Parents Circle, an...
Since I started helping pack meals in a restaurant in the beginning of the war, I’ve noticed that many of the returning volunteers are older people....
Yesterday, a good friend asked me to write a post on my blog about people who do not contribute to the war effort. I thought it was an excellent...
Yesterday, Israel’s National Security Council and Foreign Ministry issued a joint warning to Israelis, advising them to reconsider traveling abroad,...
Today, on the 28th day of the war that followed Hamas’s slaughter on October 7th, there were quite a few important speeches related to the war....
This morning, after I finished my usual morning exercise, rowing on the Yarkon River, I strolled towards the Tel Aviv Port, on my way to the vegan...
Over the last decade, I have participated in several Israeli-Palestinian activities. The most meaningful project was initiated by the Parents’...
As I drive around Tel Aviv and its vicinity, I can’t avoid the myriad of signs with patriotic slogans. Until recently, when Netanyahu was still...
My late husband used to say that he learned how to lie and cheat in the Israeli army. One of the things he learned was that it was much better to act...
I still can’t believe it. Exactly three weeks ago, on Shabbat October 7th, our world as we knew it fell apart. This is the third time it has...
After the shock of October 7th, thousands of people in Israel have applied for gun permits, alluding to the famous Holocaust saying: “I won’t go...
Yesterday afternoon, I had my first leisure activity since the beginning of the war, and it turned out to be connected to this time and place. Before...
The way the released hostage, Yocheved Lifshitz, chose to introduce herself at the press conference might sound like a mere formality, but I believe...
The Movement Women Wage Peace was founded in 2014, toward the end of the war in Gaza, known as Operation Protective Edge. During the nine years that...
The last decade was good for women: we were hopeful and felt that women in Israel have finally begun to crack the glass ceiling. More women were...
In the midst of our national tragedy and this horrific wartime crisis, personal tragedies do occur. Two days ago, I learned that the mother of a...
I had planned to write a post about the situation of Israeli Arabs during these difficult times. However, when I saw that my friend Yael Treidel, a...
This week, I tried to establish something resembling a routine. Every morning, I volunteered at a small vegan restaurant in Tel Aviv where I helped...
Today on the radio, I heard a female reporter speaking to one of the survivors of the pogrom on October 7th. She is an 84-year-old widow from Kibbutz...
This war has presented unexpected dilemmas that center around the question of solidarity with our people. As children we heard heroic stories of young...
This afternoon, I spent a couple of hours sitting with the families of the kidnapped civilians. They had gathered on Kaplan Street, across from the...
It has been a little over a week since the massacre in the south of Israel on October 7th. If it was a “regular” death of a loved one, we would...
As an older woman, out of the workforce, and without daily family care, I felt the need to do something and contribute to the war effort. It sounds...
This morning, we received a plea to stand in support of a member of Kibbutz Kfar Aza, one of the kibbutzim brutally attacked by Hamas. Avihai Brodetz,...
A wise woman once told me that when dealing with a traumatic event, it is advisable not to rush and wrap up the whole thing, but rather to allow...
Alongside all the other tragedies of this war, there is a strong realization, supported by evidence, that we can’t trust those in positions of...
Since Saturday, October 7th, at 6:30 AM, our country has come to a standstill. On Friday night, we were still celebrating the second Hag of Sukkot,...
People in deep mourning, grappling with loss, often find themselves in a state of apathy and listlessness, making it nearly impossible to physically...
Today is the third day of the war, and it’s fair to say that we are still in shock. The streets are empty, and in my neighborhood in Ramat Gan,...
Yesterday, on the second Shabbat of Sukkot, at 6:30 in the morning, we, the residents of central Israel, woke up to the unexpected sound of sirens. It...
Last night, during the 39th Shabbat of the protest against the judicial overhaul, I experienced a moment of panic. At 7 p.m., I arrived at Habima...
Last Saturday, the day before Yom Kippur eve, I attended the demonstration in Jerusalem in front of the President’s Residence. It was a respectful...
The poster for the 38th Shabbat demonstration, in front of the President’s Residence, in Jerusalem was very appealing, especially for someone of my...
It wasn’t easy for me to leave the house yesterday evening and join the march from Rothschild Boulevard to Kaplan. After hosting a Rosh Hashana...
Seven years ago, I participated in the Narrative project of the Parents Circle, an organization founded by bereaved Jewish and Palestinian families...