Wartime Diaries: Lihi Lapid

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🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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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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0:00.0	Spexavers have asked me to tell you something important, so I've gone creative and dug out my
0:05.9	old jack-in-the-box. It's about prices and how they jump up when you least expect them.
0:16.0	I said jump up when you least expect them. I said jump up when you least expect them. Oh, that Spexaver's glasses still start from 15 pounds.
0:19.0	Not now, Jack, including standard single vision lenses only. He's going to jump up now isn't he?
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1:31.0	made possible by you. The betrayal of the women organization was very difficult for me.
1:49.0	It was so depressing. It was really a betrayal. There was a group that approached me. They
1:57.6	called themselves me to unless you are a Jew, which was very very strong and it was about women and about women that are kidnap.
2:07.0	We approached all parliaments and all the big organizations of women that you always hear from them about anything
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