In recent years whenever a message came to us from the mail, it was not just an invitation that was fulfilled and rolled to our doorstep from far away China. China was the modern-day industrialist, sending well-packaged packages to every corner of the globe. It was the essence and fulfillment of our replicas, those that cross national borders at lightning speed and make us all a small, magical global village.

Packaging on top of stacked piles of hard-to-pronounce factories laying the first foundations of the Chinese Empire to come. After all, the boundaries of our world are expanding by the enormous scientific acceleration. We look at screens and type in a little, and after a while we get wonderful products at half the price and even less. Again and again the god of the app works. I wanted, I typed, got to my doorstep.

Inadvertently leaves her reading Naibit-msho, streaking across the sky: "Ho, here is this one miracle! Cmh Itzorim Naim Aomdim here! Cmh Nfla Hmin Hanosi! What a glorious eternity Hds, Sis Bo Ansim Calh" (William Shakespeare, Tempest, Lord, A, Hebrew: Avraham Oz). The globalization of personal and family products, under the proud flagship red flag, was present in every street corner, every home, every consciousness that craves something new.

The spider's web of the global village has broken the boundaries of the nation state and a new division has been created between "mobile" and "stationary", which is often used by author and researcher Gadi Taub. Both terms describe two new classes with opposing perceptions, colliding with each other. The mobile, like high-tech and university people, enjoy the benefits of globalization and see it as an instrument for improving their living conditions and freeing people from their national constraints.

The stationary, on the other hand, clings to the national to protect against the leakage of their jobs across countries, seeking the benefit of cheap production for large corporations. The nation state has cracked and gone. The security that the state instilled in workers after World War II was unraveled, waning.

But the stationary was comforting, the global candy: Ali Express, with its endless branches, along with cheap tourism that filled up the airports and tourist sites. The dear was cheap and the far was approaching. The end of history.

From that cheerful optimism of endless movement in cyberspace, intertwined in the capitalist space that tempts us to buy more and more, here came the despair and the threat. The same painful contrast on which our lives are based. Oh, my beloved Corona. How did you turn one tiny Chinese virus into a nation-state again into the axis around which our lives are beating? The airports were empty, the tourist sites were closed and the borders were sealed, and the state is again at the center.

Suddenly the state appeared, somewhat rejected and cursed, and became the largest and only machine capable of guiding, treating, saving. Who will put a spoon in our hands and ensure that after the current Chinese Corona 2, 3 and so on, that might be more acute?

International corporations and university laboratories will secure drugs and cures, and I wish to bring them as soon as possible. At least symptom relief and supportive treatment. However, the global network has faltered. A tower of Babylon, which shimmered in the distance with thousands of bulbs of progress and promised endless open borders and mobility, was dumbfounded.

Globalization, the unification of all cultures, and one language, one, which we thought to be a journey between blossoming gardens and uniting together in a tight network of collaborations - was a high climbing journey, where a small mistake can cause horrific consequences. Once these tiny viruses float from a cave in Guangdong Province in November 2002, and once the bat wings market at the Wuhan City Animal Market in December 2019.

Hence the biblical myth of defiance and brokenness.

And faces rising opposition, challenging the full realization of the universal "and Ird Lord Lrat At Exit to the city and At Hmgdl Asr in us children of Hadm: and God said aye people mono- and Sfh eleven Lclm and Zh Hhlm make and Ath not Ibtzr Mhm Cl Asr Izmo make: let us Nrdh and Nblh there They could not hear anyone else's language:

Difficult days of anxiety and danger pass us, human beings, wherever we go between the good and the bad, and everything that was suddenly important and unnecessary. Our fragility and vulnerability is present at every step. I wish in a month we would get up, and the horror would go away and there would be trembling and dim memory. But now the national boundary that protects us, its weaknesses and limitations, is being fortified together, until this wickedness has waned across the country.

Dr. Uri Cohen is a senior lecturer in the School of Education at Tel Aviv University