Has an entire year really passed? A year since the so-called Black Shabbat that changed us Israelis forever. I will never forget October 7, 2023. At 6:30 a.m., I was awakened by my Red Alert app, which provides real-time rocket warnings. The app rang continuously. I was sure it was a technical error. But then, the TV screen filled with the typical orange warnings of rocket attacks throughout the country. Then the first images of terrorists in Sderot and other Israeli locations reached us. The rest is history.
About two weeks later, we visited the family of a childhood friend of our daughter, whose younger brother was murdered by terrorists at the Nova Music Festival. Heartbreaking. I still remembered him well, as he used to come to our house often with his sister. A colleague of our daughter was murdered in a shelter along with her sister, which greatly affected our daughter. A neighbor of our eldest son in Tel Aviv never made it home. Almost every Israeli knows someone affected by the massacres of October 7.
In a way, we are still...
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