Operation Iron Swords: Jerusalem cooks distributed thousands of Cubans to soldiers/Courtesy of the photographers
The ongoing fighting in the Gaza Strip and on the northern border and the long days of battle that await the security forces have already led the Israeli food world to put a collective shoulder under the aid stretcher.
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And yet, there are gestures so unusual, so unifying, that they deserve their own prominence. 10,000 cubes, for example.
"Thank you to all the rollers and rollers." Cuban deliveries to soldiers / Courtesy of the subjects
It all began with an appeal that is at once vague and specific, realistic and ambitious. "We are looking for women who know how to roll Cuba for IDF soldiers," the Jerusalem and Jerusalem Facebook group wrote over the weekend, "the target is 10,000 bullets. The materials are on us."
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Half a day later it turned out that the task was accomplished. "We have reached our destination, thank you to all the rollers. The people of Israel in its glory," it was described.
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"I roll a Kobe and I eat my Kobe in Jerusalem," said Orly Moshe, a routine traffic examiner and in charge of the cooking project, "We wanted them to get a dish, with a sense of home, so I gathered a few friends, rolled a few hundred and my nephew suggested doing it big. I thought it was far-fetched, but he took it further, and so it was. 10,000".
"Dozens of families pitched in in an instant to help. The nation of Israel is so great, and we could have gone on and on." The delegation set out with crates and boxes, pots and trays, to all checkpoints in Jerusalem and the Gaza envelope with "beetroot Kobe soup and cloud rolls," and Moshe reported strong hugs "to the treasures that guard us all year round."
Soldiers, she stressed, "This is the heart of every mother, and this thing is the least we can do to raise morale for the people of Israel."
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