So my necklace is the Lebanese map that my mom came with it from Lebanon and then the cross, you know.

And actually I bought it in Ramallah.

So it's very eclectic.

It's very cool.

I wish this was like, you know, the Middle East that we all dream of.

Like you can just jump here to buy something, jump there to buy.

So, yeah, this is like my identities.

And I think I need some Israeli representative here.

Hey, I'm Mishi, and this is Israel Story.

As you know, we're in the midst of our wartime diaries series,

which is an attempt to collect slivers of life during these seemingly endless and difficult days.

Though the escalating tension on Israel's northern border has been part of the war from the very start,

our collective attention was, for months, focused on Gaza.

Recently, however, that has begun to shift, and speculations about what Chisbala is planning

to do have taken center stage. The tragic deaths of 12 kids in Majdel Shams

10 days ago, followed by the retaliatory assassination of Fuad Shukir, one of Chisbalah's chief

military leaders, only raise the already high levels of anxiety and uncertainty.

Does Nasrallah want an all-out war?

Are we about to be bombarded by thousands of rockets raining down from Lebanon?

And when will the 60 plus thousand evacuated residents of the North finally be able to return home.

Everyone seems to have an opinion on these matters.

But with all the experts and pundits out there, the truth is that no one knows Chisbalah as well as the members of a small and often forgotten community living in Israel.

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