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The days of Corona, the days of training

2020-04-06T20:24:29.651Z


Dalia Gabrieli Nori


The days of training. Two weeks in training. We already arranged the books in the library according to AB, and also by themes, and got rid of yellowing shelves on the desktop. ), We made spring-colored masks, and a thousand times we opened and closed the bank account app in horror.

After two weeks of reckoning, and after wondering a lot about the surprising survival of major institutions in our culture such as "marriage" and "parenting," the time has come to ask what has changed: what has come out of our Corona days. What we learned, what will remain. Because one thing can be certain: the corona, like life itself, is working on borrowed time. One day she will be gone.

What will be left of these crazy sweat days? Difficult circumstances produce surprising insights. During the Yom Kippur War we were surprised to find that half the population were women. A look at the period papers indicates that up to that time the women had been pushed to the margins of Page 16, if at all. They appeared in the context of child rearing, female nurturing and blind typing courses. The people whose whole life was preparing for a surprise war, unknowingly passed on one statistic: There are women here, and many, and what a pity we didn't notice before. Because the Yom Kippur War did not take 18 days of combat but close to six months of reserve. And for a long period of time the essential functions of the economy faded somewhere between Hermon and Suez. And the women? In those days, no one thought they could be an available resource in an emergency. That they can, for example, drive a bus or run a supermarket. At the end of the war lessons were learned. The IDF, as usual, was the first. Gradually, he expanded the roles of women recruiting beyond the tasks involved in making tea and coffee. The Ministry of Labor also made a big step and opened dozens of courses to train women in many fields.

The Yom Kippur War was a national disaster, but it also served as a female springboard that brought to Israel the feminist waves that were already very high in the world, especially in the United States, and until that time we missed them.

What will be the discovery that the Corona will bring? One good and surprising thing grew in the dreary days of training and it burst into the storm of online visual media into our lives. Not just distance learning and teaching for kids and students. Also the communication with the isolated grandmother, fitness training and plenty of classes for children. Suddenly we realized that you can really work from home and the morning traffic to the office looks like a dreary backdrop from an Eighties movie.

It also turns out that for a few days training we and our neighbors, are able to take over new, mostly friendly software. A little nervous and frustration and we have it. And yes, Grandma can, and she, too, in proper preparation already calls us and shows her face. Proud of you Granny! Until two weeks ago, we mourned the addiction to screens that ruined every family reunion, and now, in a surprising turnaround, screens have become something that will save and even enhance our communication with the children.

Thank you, thank you Corona. If I'm lucky, I might find myself in a festive sweater closet, which will be photographed nicely in Seder's "Zoom".

Prof. Dalia Gabrieli Nuri, Department of Politics and Communication, Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem

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Source: israelhayom

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