107: Wartime Diaries - Adva Gutman Tirosh
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Israel Story
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🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Even today, nearly three weeks after the devastating attacks of October 7th, there are still hundreds of people who are considered “missing,” which means that they haven’t been confirmed dead, but – at the same time – there’s no definitive proof that they’ve been kidnapped into Gaza. One of those missing is Tamar Gutman, who was at the Nova Party in Re’im. Her sister Adva Gutman Tirosh talks about the difficulties of coping with uncertainty.
This piece was produced by Yochai Maital.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, listeners, it's Mishi. So, as you know, during these incredibly difficult days, |
| 0:07.3 | we're trying to bring you voices we're hearing among and around us. These aren't stories, |
| 0:14.0 | they're just quick conversations, or postcards really, that try to capture slivers of life right now. Even today, nearly three |
| 0:24.8 | weeks after the devastating attacks of October 7th, there are still hundreds of people who are |
| 0:30.8 | considered missing. That means they haven't been confirmed dead, but on the other hand, |
| 0:37.1 | there's no definitive proof that they've |
| 0:39.1 | been kidnapped into Gaza. One of those missing is Tamar Gutman, who was at the Nova Party in Reim. |
| 0:47.3 | Our senior producer, Yuchai Meital, who's in New York, is close to some members of her family. |
| 0:53.6 | Here he is. |
| 0:54.4 | First of all, thank you so much for talking to me today. I really appreciate it. |
| 1:00.2 | Thank you. |
| 1:01.4 | Can you please introduce yourself? |
| 1:03.2 | Okay, my name is Udva Gutmann. I'm 38 years old. I am an orthopedic surgeon. I have two sons. One seven years old and the other |
| 1:16.7 | four years old. I have an amazing husband called Gideon. And I am sister of Tamara Gutman. |
| 1:27.1 | She is 27 years old. she's missing right now. She was at the Nova |
| 1:35.1 | Festival. Sorry, do you want me to tell you what happens to start telling you? |
| 1:43.1 | Maybe before that I wanted to ask you |
| 1:45.0 | how many interviews have you done in the past weekend a few days I don't know how many |
| 1:51.2 | um more than 20 I think more with a lot of countries, Japan, three interviews, Brazil, India, United States, a lot of interviews, |
| 2:08.6 | Italy and Switzerland and Germany and England, a lot. I don't really, and in Israel, a lot I don't really and in Israel a lot of interviews as well and I'm not a |
| 2:23.4 | camera person and I'm not I used to be you know behind and shy but now now I'm doing |
| 2:33.8 | everything that I can so yeah can you tell us a little bit how |
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