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105: Wartime Diaries - Sivan Avnery

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Judaism, Palestine, Jewish, Stories, Religion & Spirituality, Israel

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🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

For months Sivan Avnery – a physical therapist from Kfar Shmaryahu – was active in the demonstrations against the judicial reforms. Like hundreds of thousands of other Israelis, he felt he was fighting for his home, for the very nature of his country. But he had no idea how true that was about to become.

On Saturday morning, October 7, Sivan received a message which is every parent’s worst nightmare: His 18-year-old son Tal was – unbeknownst to him – at the Nova party in Re’im, and was now fleeing for his life. Without a second of hesitation, Sivan knew exactly what he needed to do.

This piece was produced by Adina Karpuj.

The end song is Yeled Shel Abba (“A Father’s Son”) by Mooki.

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0:00.0

You're listening to this podcast, so I know you care about the war in Israel right now.

0:08.0

And you've been reading the headlines.

0:10.0

Massacre and Gaza, genocide perpetrated by Hamas, no by Israel.

0:15.0

But if you've been listening to this podcast long enough, you know one thing.

0:20.0

This stuff seems complicated, and honestly you shouldn't just pick aside or decide your opinion without really learning without really knowing what you're talking about.

0:31.0

And that's where this podcast comes in. Check out unpacking Israeli

0:36.4

history. They have episodes with topics ranging from what is Hamas anyway to whether Israel should ransom captured soldiers and the history of

0:46.8

Israel and its disengagement from Gaza in 2005.

0:51.8

Unpacking Israeli history cuts through the noise and helps you understand Israel's

0:56.2

present through understanding Israel's history.

0:59.8

So educate yourself. Learn the history behind the headlines. Find unpacking Israeli history

1:07.4

wherever you get your podcasts. This succot, it was the first succot, I didn't build a succuka in here at home and I built our suka at the junction next to

1:28.8

Julie Edelstein house. The main thing we shouted was 50 years ago in October 73. We had a disaster and what we wanted to say it's let's stop the 2023

1:51.2

disaster before it happens and what is unbelievable is that on Thursday

1:59.8

evening we went home from Suka and on Chabad we had the biggest catastrophe we could even imagine.

2:17.0

Hey listeners, it's Mishi.

2:20.0

So as you know during these incredibly difficult days, we're trying to bring you

2:25.3

voices we're hearing among and around us. These aren't stories, they're just

2:31.0

quick conversations, or postcards really, that try to capture slivers of life right now.

2:40.0

For months, Savannah, Veneri, a physical therapist from Kfarz-Muyao, was active in the

2:46.0

mecha-a, the demonstrations against the judicial reforms.

2:50.6

That's why he built his suka outside the house of Yuleedelstein, one of the senior members of the Liqueud Party,

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