In Zderot, this is the best life we can build even we had a terrorist attack.

Wouldn't the best place to live, you know, not have rockets and terrorist attacks?

You know, in Israel, I don't think that there is a place that they have no terrorist attack.

As a Jew, we all the time fighting our life everywhere.

We feel like we are living in Ghen, heaven.

So sometimes there is a war and we deal it and we keep going.

Hey listeners, it's Mishi.

So as you hopefully know, we're in the middle of our annual listener drive.

If you haven't yet done so, I really hope you contribute.

But we're also continuing with our wartime diaries.

Before we dive into today's episode, however, I want to say

something. We do our best to try and feature diverse voices and different views in this series.

These aren't necessarily our voices, or our views, but rather a representation,

obviously just a partial representation, of what we're

hearing among and around us. These aren't stories, just quick conversations, or postcards

really, that try to capture slivers of life in Israel right now. More than 200,000 Israelis, from both the south and the north,

have had to leave their home since the start of the war. Some have relocated to hotels or

kibbutzim, others have opted to move in with family or friends, or even just rent a place

in an entirely new surrounding.

We've aired several diaries about initiatives that cater to the evacuees in terms of education,

or housing, or culture. In fact, Israel's story itself is such an initiative with our

Sipur-Irushalmi project, which goes to dozens of hotels

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