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145: Wartime Diaries - Lihi Lapid

Israel Story

Israel Story

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

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Lihi Lapid is a celebrated photojournalist, columnist and best-selling author - of children's books, cookbooks and award-winning novels. She’s also married to Yair Lapid, the former Israeli Prime Minister and current Leader of the Opposition. In 2021 Lihi published Zarot, a sweeping tale that explores a complicated mother-daughter relationship, the tolls of immigration and the reality of marginalized groups within Israeli society. When it came out, it received glowing praise, especially from the notoriously harsh critics at Haaretz who called the novel, “a wonderful work written with restraint and wisdom.” And this spring, three years later and in what is an entirely different world, the English translation - On Her Own - was published by HarperCollins. We sat down to talk about October 7th, feminism, special needs, and what it’s like to have a major work of fiction - written by the former Prime Minister’s wife - come out in the middle of a war.


The end song is Hey Shketa ("Hey Quiet One") by Ivri Lider.


Photograph by Jennifer Bukovza, courtesy of Lihi Lapid.


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The betrayal of the women organization was very difficult for me.

0:07.0

It was so depressing.

0:09.0

It was really a betrayal.

0:12.0

There was a group that approached me.

0:15.0

They called themselves, Me Too, unless you are a Jew,

0:19.0

which was very, very strong.

0:20.9

And it was about women and about the women that are kidnapped.

0:25.4

We approached all parliaments and all the big organizations of women that you always hear from them about anything that happens with women.

0:36.2

And you mentioned Malala.

0:38.5

I remember how we all put pictures and we didn't care if she's Muslim or Christian or Jew

0:45.8

or, I don't know, Buddhist.

0:48.5

We didn't care.

0:49.6

It was a girl that was shot because she wanted to go to school.

0:53.8

And here are girls that were kidnapped because they went to a party.

0:59.8

And you know what?

1:00.9

I was shocked.

1:02.9

I was really, really shocked, not seeing Michelle Obama handing a picture of women hostages.

1:10.1

But as a politician wife, I'm used to disappointments and sometimes little moments of joy.

1:20.9

Hey, listeners, it's Mishi.

1:24.1

So, as you know, we're continuing our series of wartime diaries, which is our attempt to collect

1:29.8

slivers of life during these difficult days.

1:34.3

Lihi Lapid is a celebrated photojournalist, columnist, and best-selling author of children's books,

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