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108: Wartime Diaries - Tomer Oshri

Israel Story

Israel Story

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

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

During normal times Tomer Oshri – a 48-year-old history teacher from Jerusalem – works at JDC-Israel and runs an educational non-profit. Nowadays, however, he’s the man in charge of building and operating 17 different makeshift schools for survivors and displaced residents of the communities around the Gaza Border.

The end song is Kol Od (“As Long As”) by Yoni Rechter.

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0:00.0

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

0:07.2

now.

0:08.2

Then you've been reading the headlines, massacre and Gaza, genocide perpetrated by Hamas,

0:14.2

no, by Israel.

0:16.3

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

0:20.9

This stuff seems complicated, and honestly you shouldn't just pick a side or decide

0:25.9

your opinion without really learning, without really knowing what you're talking about.

0:31.1

And that's where this podcast comes in.

0:34.5

Check out Unpacking Israeli History.

0:37.9

They have episodes with topics ranging from what is Hamas anyway, to whether Israel

0:43.4

should rant some captured soldiers and the history of Israel and its disengagement from

0:48.7

Gaza in 2005.

0:52.0

Unpacking Israeli history cuts through the noise and helps you understand

0:55.8

the Israel's present through understanding Israel's history.

0:59.8

So educate yourself, learn the history behind the headlines, find Unpacking Israeli History,

1:07.6

wherever you get your podcasts.

1:25.8

Welcome to the educational area, classes, grades 3 to 6, that's possible.

1:35.8

So we've arrived at the improvised classroom slash school of all of those from Stero to

1:49.8

have come to the Dead Sea area.

1:52.8

Let's talk about 25 kids, I see what looks like, maybe a kindergarten teacher, maybe

1:58.3

a grandmother, maybe both, correct, lots of different volunteers, both from youth movements

2:07.0

and from the Army's educational core.

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