136: Wartime Diaries - Noam Tsuriely

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🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Some 350,000 Israelis have been called up to reserve duty since the start of the war, in what has been the largest mobilization in the country’s history. These are people who were plucked out of their homes, families and daily lives, and inserted into a totally different world, one which is in most cases - just to add to the confusion - a mere car ride away. And those transitions back and forth, between the craziness of the frontline and the veneer of normalcy at home, can be dizzying and unsettling. We’re hearing more and more about that juxtaposition now that large numbers of reservists are being released from their service, and are returning to their regular lives.

One of them is Noam Tsuriely from Jerusalem. Noam’s a rapper, who recently put out his debut album and had, pre-war, a string of big time gigs all lined up. He was summoned for reserve duty on Oct. 7th, and has spent most of the last four months in Gaza. We spoke to him just as he came out of Gaza, and began his readjustment to civilian life.

The end song is Kshenetse Mize ("When We Get Out of This") by Noam Tsuriely, Shachar Nahari, and Eyal Mazig.

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0:00.0	After two weeks
0:03.0	After two weeks on Miloim, I wrote a song.
0:22.7	It was like,
0:23.2	Miloim, Nishar Gamod from the year.
0:27.1	Stay is like 400 days.
0:29.3	Kikamim Lifamim Nimas.
0:32.3	Tareich limchok at Hamas.
0:53.8	So I wrote it in half an hour, but then I put it on Instagram and it blew up and I have half million views and actually with half an hour of work with a silly funny song I managed to give people a reason to smile and this is the most biggest thing I did in my life.
1:21.1	Yeah. I did in my life. Hey listeners.
1:23.1	So as you know, we're continuing our series of wartime diaries, which is an attempt to collect
1:30.3	slivers of life during these dark, dark days we're all experiencing.
1:35.9	Some 350,000 Israelis have been called up to reserve duty since the start of the war, in what
1:43.1	has been the largest mobilization in
1:45.7	the country's history.
1:48.0	These are people who were plucked out of their homes, their families, and their daily
1:52.9	lives, and inserted into a totally different world, one which is, in most cases,
2:00.5	to add to the confusion, just a short car ride
2:03.6	away. And those transitions back and forth, between the craziness of the front line and the
2:10.6	veneer of normalcy at home, can be dizzying and unsettling. We're hearing more and more about that juxtaposition now that
2:20.5	large numbers of reservists are being released from their service and are returning to their
2:25.7	regular lives. One of them is Norm Tsurieli from Jerusalem. Noam's a rapper, who recently
2:33.6	put out his debut album and had pre-war,
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