Wartime Diaries: Aliza Raz-Melzer

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🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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There has been endless talk of the “Home Front” during this war. The "Home Front," as in what goes on here in Israel, as opposed to what happens on the battlefield - in the streets and alleyways of Gaza. But, there is - of course - also a home front, or rather many different kinds of home fronts: some are stoic, others less so; some are somehow managing, others not at all. Much to her dismay, Aliza Raz-Melzer's 50-year-old husband Amiad volunteered to go fight. She gave us a glance into her home front. A home front that is conflicted - proud and supportive on the one hand, divided and even furious on the other.

The end song is K'She'Ata Kan ("When You Are Here") by Ninet Tayeb.

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0:00.0	I never ever considered myself a maiden in distress. I wasn't the maiden in distress. I don't
0:07.3	sit around waiting for a phone call, I'm very independent and I, you know, I don't sit around thinking oh I need my husband to
0:16.5	understand what's going on I guess you know we're equal we need each other and
0:21.0	after October 7th I really really needed him to make sense of it for me
0:27.6	but it's like me being left behind and him doing what he wants to do which is not something I need or want.
0:35.3	Hey listeners, it's Mishi.
0:39.4	So as you know we're continuing our series of wartime diaries, which is an attempt to collect slivers of life
0:46.7	during these difficult days. So we talk a lot about the home front during this war. The home front, as in what goes on here in Israel, as opposed to what happens on the battlefield in the streets and alleyways of Gaza.
1:02.0	But of course there's also the home front, like the
1:05.3	home front and there are many many different kinds of home fronts. Some are
1:12.0	stoic, others less so. Some are somehow managing. Others, not at all.
1:20.6	Our producers Anat-Korol Gordon in Mitch Ginsburg sat down with Aliza Razz-Melzer, whose 50-year-old husband
1:28.6	the Myad volunteered to go fight, much to her dismay.
1:33.8	Eliza gave us a glance into her home front,
1:38.0	a home front that's conflicted, proud and supportive on the one hand, divided and even furious on the other.
1:48.7	Here she is.
1:50.1	So I'm Eliza, Ros Melzer. I live in Jerusalem. I've been living in Israel from age one. I'm a translator. I'm a literary editor and I teach literature.
2:08.2	I have a daughter and two sons. The oldest is in the military right now, in her mandatory military. She's in combat and my husband Ami, is a school principal, high school, and we've been together for a really long time, say is that we've
2:23.0	how long he's my first boyfriend so since age 21 and really all I can say is that we are
2:31.3	very very close friends and we've maintained a
2:34.3	friendship for a really long time and you know we sit in the evening in our
2:38.9	backyard and sometimes you don't have to say anything and a lot of times it's oh this is what I'm reading right now oh look at that this
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