israeli politics

sivan 23, 2025

You know this date if you read the history of the Jews in Persia according to the Book of Esther.  This is the day that the king of Persia overturned the fate of the Jews in his realm.

This is also the day that Iran used a missile in my neighborhood that had lots of “little” bombs.  When you use these nasty weapons specifically on a civilian population, you’re not whistling Dixie.

 

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this is just to say - 6.19.25

Sometimes I write nonsense – just to let you know I’ve checked, and all my limbs are intact.  Ezi too.  The kids are keeping safe, but of course, we’re crazy battle-fatigued.  The neighbor upstairs dropped a book just now and I jumped. not surprising – the whole building jumped this morning.

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What a Mess - 6.19.25

I realize that Khoumeni is trying to get back at us for what we did to Haman, but at 7 in the morning?  I mean there were operations going on in the hospital he bombed.  Haim called to tell me he was home and had postponed his treatment.  But i don’t know what happened to most of my friends.  

No wonder we’ve been overeating – we need those extra layers of fat to keep the pieces of rockets from hitting our vital parts!

I just wrote so you can know we’re okay so far.

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the unkind cut - 6.18.25

this is a silly detail.  I have been so looking forward to a haircut today that I went there yesterday.  And the hairdresser was standing at the entrance of his temporary salon, looking sad.  “Come back tomorrow,” he said, with a hairdresser’s kiss. 

But just as I was about to dance out of the door, Ezi reminded me that there was a missile yesterday at this time and I’d better stay home. 

I remembered suddenly that my mother once told me that my father was coming down the street on Fountayne Road in London and she was walking up the road, and a rocket fell between them, leaving a big hole in the street.  I looked it up and it was recorded.  

so i cancelled.  curses.

I would have much more strength to face this war with short hair.

 

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i’m not sure of the source of this list – but it is incredibly good advice for people in Israel – and maybe Iran as well:

Hello dear tenants and residents:
My name is Idan and I live here in the building – I am a firefighter.
In recent days, we firefighters have been working hard and have been exposed to quite a few buildings that have been destroyed… (destruction sites)
I am attaching a list of some insights from a few days of work, hoping that we will not have to implement them and that we will meet in stuck elevators and barbecues in the attics 🙂
Some important conclusions and recommendations for your consideration:
1.⁠ ⁠Leave shoes in the emergency room, ⁠Gd forbid if you are rescued or need to leave on your own, you will not want to go out barefoot, especially as the floor at the site will full of shrapnel and glass.
2.⁠ ⁠Leave a prepared bag in the emergency room with clothes for a day or two, important personal items, passports, money, documents and critical medications, which if you, Gd forbid, need to evacuate, you can take with you. Most people who evacuate are not allowed to return to their apartment until further notice.
3.⁠ ⁠For those with animals, please note that if you evacuate to take with you or report to the rescuers.
4.⁠ ⁠If you leave the house on your own, put a note on the door saying that you left and include a phone number. This will prevent rescuers from breaking into your apartment to see if someone needs rescuing. (Prepare the sign ahead of time)
5.⁠ *Recommendation to each building’s va’ad bayit: establish a list of tenants that includes current phone numbers and the number of tenants in each apartments. It helps a lot to quickly map the building and its residents, and to find out if someone is missing or just at another location.
Gd forbid that we have to implement any of this
May we know better days
Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱
 
 

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shooting range - 6.16.25

Last night Iran’s targets were population centers in Israel.  Eight people died and countless families lost their homes.  Ballistic rockets to an apartment building are certain to do damage to human beings as well as their dwellings, and it’s anybody’s guess who will wake up in the morning.  Of course we all spent the night trying to keep safe, so of course most of us are sleepless.  I’ve never been one of those ducks in a shooting range before.  This is a new experience and it tops the previous 4 years of uncertainty.

 

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