144: Wartime Diaries - Amit Halivni Bar-Peled

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🗓️ 12 May 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

It’s Yom HaZikaron again, Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terror. Since the start of the war, 1511 Israeli civilians and members of the armed forces have been killed. That's 1511 families who have joined the dreaded circle of grief and bereavement. 1511 families whose lives will never again be the same.

Today, we share the story of one such family. A small family. One that was just starting off, really. Thirty-year-old Yuval Halivni was a reserve officer who was killed on October 9th. He left behind a wife, Amit Halivni Bar-Peled, who is a pastry chef and makes amazingly elaborate wedding cakes, and a little boy, Jon-Jon, who was less than two when his dad was killed.

The end song is Hatishma Koli ("Hear My Voice") by Rivka Revivo.

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0:00.0	Okay, welcome to my humble home.
0:04.0	So it's also my apartment and my studio.
0:08.0	I'm making wedding cakes over there.
0:12.0	So we have a look.
0:13.0	Yeah, we can.
0:15.0	So it's sorry, light. Oh, yeah, it's sorry light.
0:21.6	Oh, even smells good.
0:23.5	Oh, thank you.
0:24.9	So these are the wedding cakes and all the cakes that I made for John John are son, like
0:33.3	you see Mickey Mouse and I don't know what, Disney's characters.
0:39.3	What do you call that one? I forgot.
0:41.3	Buzz?
0:42.3	Yeah.
0:43.3	Yeah, exactly.
0:44.3	Infinity and beyond.
0:46.3	And space, something, and finding Nemo and Panda Bear and
0:53.3	Looney Tunes and Mermaid the little Marmarine.
0:58.0	So, okay, and this cake, it was the cake to my 30 birthday, which was like last month.
1:06.0	And it's all of us, me and Yuval and Jon John, even though it was just after Yval's death killed,
1:14.6	I don't know how to say it.
1:17.6	And I wanted us to have like our still moment as a family
1:23.6	and sailing together.
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