by Sarah Zadok | Oct 22, 2023 | Israel, Personal Narrative
Photo credit: Jalaa MAREY / AFP, October 15, 2023. Israeli tanks positioned in the north of Israel near the border with Lebanon Shabbat was good. But strange. There was a lot of activity in the sky. Airplanes, helicopters, lots of rumbling. All this punctuated by...
by Sarah Zadok | Oct 20, 2023 | Israel, Personal Narrative
Shabbat is coming. The brisket is in the oven, sourdough is baked, and banana muffins ready to rock n’ roll. Chezi is cleaning the floor downstairs while I take a few minutes to pen some words to share with you all before shabbat. A few moments from today: Our...
by Sarah Zadok | Oct 19, 2023 | Israel, Personal Narrative
We live in the Golan Heights. 4.3 miles from the Syrian border (as the missile files). There have been a few mortars fired into the Golan from what appears to rag-tag rebels looking for some action. Thank Gd, no one was hurt. Mostly it’s quiet here. We hear...
by Sarah Zadok | Oct 18, 2023 | Israel, Personal Narrative
Even the deepest wounds develop scar tissue. That’s what day 12 of this war feels like to me. I awoke with the thought that maybe I -and we- have healed enough to know for sure that we will make it through. True, the wounds are still fresh. Deep. We are still...
by Sarah Zadok | Oct 17, 2023 | Israel, Personal Narrative
Time moves differently these days. Most of the day, I feel like I’m racing time. I don’t have much to share today. I sat in the garden this morning with Shahar and he told me about the funeral. He marveled at the depth of the sadness and the strength of Amitay’s...
by Sarah Zadok | Oct 16, 2023 | Israel, Personal Narrative
We woke to the news of the death of one of our own last night. Lt. Amitay Zvi Granot, 24, a commander in the 7th Armored Brigade, was killed by anti-tank guided missile fire launched by Hezbollah on the Lebanon border yesterday. Amitay was raised in Yonatan. He was...