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155: Wartime Diaries - Anwar Ben Badis

Israel Story

Israel Story

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

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

How do you raise a child who is on both sides of a war? The end song is Yalda Sheli Ktana ("Little Girl of Mine") by Idan Raichel.

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0:00.0

My daughter, she said that my teacher today didn't come because her son went to the war.

0:09.0

So this is for a girl third grade, something that she cannot understand.

0:14.0

I mean, how the son of her teacher can go and make the war in Gaza against the people of my father.

0:23.5

To explain to a kid this situation, you have to be a very good parent, actually.

0:30.1

Hey, I'm Ishi Harmon and this is Israel's story.

0:35.5

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

0:39.3

which is an attempt to collect slivers of life during these endlessly difficult days.

0:45.7

The war has been incredibly tough on parents. I mean, just understanding what's going on,

0:52.8

factually, emotionally, politically, morally,

0:56.7

that's all difficult enough.

0:58.7

So having to then also explain it to your kids is practically impossible.

1:04.4

But if that's a challenge that almost every parent here has felt since the start of the war,

1:10.1

the parenting tightrope that Anwar

1:12.0

bin Badis had to walk is unique. See, Anwar's Palestinian and is married to Sari,

1:20.0

in Israeli Jew. They have a young daughter, Hili, who's eight, and goes to the bilingual

1:25.6

hand-in-hand school in Jerusalem. So figuring out what to say,

1:30.8

what not to say, how to balance the dueling narratives and identities, it's all personal in Anuel's

1:38.2

case. It's as if the entire conflict, with all of its barbed complexities exist within his home.

1:47.8

Anwar came to our studio in Jerusalem for a conversation with our producers, Adina Karpukh and

1:54.8

Mitch Ginsburg. Here he is. Hi, my name is Anwar Ben Badiz.

2:01.6

I'm 45 years old.

2:03.6

I live in Jerusalem.

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