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127: Wartime Diaries - Shalom Weil

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

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🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

As of today, more than 400 Israeli soldiers have been killed in the war. Each one of those deaths, of course, not only marks the end of a life, but also shatters a family, a community, a tribe. And that ripple effect, that communal grieving, was palpable following the death of reservist Yossi Hershkovitz, the 44-year-old Principal of the Religious Zionist Pelech School for Boys in Jerusalem, who was killed on Friday, November 10th. 


Like Yossi, his dear friend and colleague Shalom Weil, has devoted his life to education. Over the years Shalom has taught, founded schools and served as a principal. And ever since the war broke out he’s been working tirelessly to build educational frameworks for those impacted by it most - the families of victims, survivors, evacuees. We however asked him to come into the studio not to talk about his own admirable work, but rather about his soulmate, Yossi, who had replaced him as the Principal of the Pelech School for Boys.


The end song is Blues Cnaani ("Canaanite Blues") by Ehud Banai.

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lavaia what we call with a lot of music, a lot of music there because people who

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knew Yossi knew that, you know, the violin was a perfect way of him to reveal his beautiful soul. He'd been doing that for many years. Everywhere he

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would go, the violin was with him.

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He quite often plays a violin when his eyes are closed and he suddenly leaves a vision of what goes around and focuses first of all inside and then suddenly outside and connects and connects.

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It's very, I mean I would say he's a person of an m16 and a violin both together and he had a fine

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art of taking each one at the time whatever was needed at that point.

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

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

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