One of the reasons I don’t write about politics here is because it hurts me so much.  But today I was at a conference at the university that tried very hard to be optimistic.  It began with an announcement of an enormous donation to the medical school that will allow the training of many more physicians.  Then the president, Bougie Herzog tried to speak, but was interrupted by hecklers.  This resulted in a much more powerful presence and stronger responses.  But it gave me no answers.

Well, there was one answer – that he’s trying to be the president of all the people in this country. He has to try to bring everyone together.  This was the jist of Yair Lapid’s talk as well – that we have to work on all the things we agree on and leave the less important things for later.

But there was also Einav Zangauker.  And as much as people agree with her, the government policy seems to be working against the idea of a deal.

There were other speakers, and we had a concert to go to so we had to leave, and never got to hear the optimistic conclusion.  What I understood was that everyone agrees that there should be happy end, but … how?