108: Wartime Diaries - Tomer Oshri

Israel Story

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

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🗓️ 29 October 2023

⏱️ 12 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	We are in the lobby of one of the hotels in the Dead Sea.
0:05.0	And it's filled with people.
0:08.0	Oh, look, Rochim Abbe,
0:10.0	Mithchim Chinochie, Gimelaad Vab.
0:14.0	Welcome to the educational area, classes, grades 3 to 6.
0:20.0	Let's go see. that's mostly fun school so we've arrived at the
0:27.6	improvised classroom slash school of all of those from steroids who've come to the
0:34.7	Dead Sea area looks like about 25 kids.
0:39.3	I see what looks like maybe a kindergarten teacher,
0:42.3	maybe a grandmother.
0:44.3	Maybe both.
0:45.3	Maybe both, correct?
0:47.3	Lots of different volunteers, both from youth movements
0:51.3	and from the Army's Educational Corps.
0:53.3	What else? There's also a Lego station.
0:57.0	Lots of Lego. Kids playing avidly.
0:59.0	Some hula hoops, some bean bags.
1:02.0	Tiny chairs.
1:05.0	Colorful tiny chairs.
1:07.0	Mitch, how many chairs. Thank you. Hello, a much. You know, Chayette?
1:11.6	Hi.
1:12.6	A colleague.
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