We woke up in the morning, there's a siren, and of course the closest place is the house of the lion,

the lion's den. So I run like crazy and I'm like, oh my god, it's like my worst nightmare.

What happened then? He couldn't care less. And he just stayed outside and was very happy.

And I had a story to tell my family in France and to send selfies inside the lions then

without the lion because they didn't come in.

And it's a story.

I think I'm going to tell it to my grandkids when they'll ask, oh my God,

Granny, there was a war. What did you do?

Hey, listeners, it's Mishi.

So, as you know, we continue to bring you wartime diaries, our attempt at collecting slivers of life

during these dark, dark days.

And today, we'll visit a place which is actually full of life, a place that is, under normal

circumstances, one of the most visited sites in the entire country, Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo, or, in its official name,

the Tisch Family Zoological Gardens. Since the start of the war, the city of Jerusalem has

welcomed more than 30,000 evacuees from both the north and the south. And with such an influx of people,

and especially such an influx of kids, there was a real need to create and offer programming

and activities. The Jerusalem Foundation stepped in and launched something called

Double Impact, an initiative that sent tens of thousands of evacuees,

as well as the city's schoolchildren, to various cultural and leisure institutions,

museums, theaters, the aquarium, and, of course, the zoo.

The double impact part of it was because it not only benefited the kids, who got a day of

fun and enrichment, but also the institutions themselves that were all, obviously, struggling.

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