I really wanted to go to sleep and not write tonight – it’s been a long day – but then when I tried to shut my eyes the nightmare came up:  Bibi is going to win with the help of a lot of extreme parties, even though he only has 49% of the popular vote. In part, this is true because people don’t trust the capabilities of the alternative – Yair Lapid – and in part because the left and center haven’t been able to get together in any way and a lot of votes will be wasted.  Also – because many of the people who don’t believe in Bibi don’t believe in the system at all anymore and they’re not going to vote.   Then there’s the fact of the imported vote: The extreme religious parties have been bringing in people just for the purpose of voting, but my Israeli friends abroad would not think of voting if they don’t live here

The part that scares me is that our enemy is very close to a nuclear weapon that will be used against us.   

But then I’ve been in more than four wars and I think that’s enough.  I’m ready to hide under the iron table we had in London during the Blitz.  My brother used to pull me under the table whenever there was a loud noise.  It’s one thing I don’t want to have to live through.