When the veil of smoke dissipates and the commotion surrounding the romantic plots of former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen subsides, we will all be left to face what has become one of the ugliest and lowest phenomena that accompanies our lives, and which has gained a wide grip on Israel.
It is about turning divorce disputes, separations and betrayals into the public domain, and exposing family secrets to the eyes of all, while cruelly and unscrupulously trampling on the real and innocent victims in any such story - the children.
The story of Yossi Cohen is just the latest link in the rusty chain of stories from the bedroom and the offices of family law lawyers, which has been panoramically unfolded for the benefit of the public and to the detriment of the faceless involved, who are essentially uninvolved.
Only in the last year have we been exposed to a startling number of tales about wars and bitter struggles between actors, reality refugees, athletes and other celebrities from various fields.
We read about them in huge headlines in newspapers and gossip sites, watched flashy investigations on screen and scrolled them in a feed on social media.
This is a habit that is a real malignant disease.
Fathers wanted ratings and sons' teeth would chew.
The voices of conflicting and resentful spouses fill the environment, but the voices of those who suffer from exposure and are forced to bear the stigma placed on them by their parents are not taken into account at all.
As if the suffering and rupture experienced by anyone going through the catastrophe of home destruction is not enough, even without it becoming a noisy investigative article or a blasphemous post on the Internet.
Divorced marriages and conflicts are not a topic for news and the town square, and except in exceptional cases of extremism - there is no justification for making them public.
The media, of course, plays the role of the calf who very much wants to breastfeed, but the responsibility is on the parents, who in almost all cases are a cow who is happy to breastfeed, and whose whole purpose is to achieve a media victory on the backs of their children.
This is even though it is clear that the only possible result from the "pombization" of a family conflict is a catastrophic loss for everyone.
In Sodom, the corner of the rabbinical court that the Israeli public space has become, people like to talk about the rights of the child and the importance of protecting helpless minors, but in practice - children have become the most negligible component in the considerations of parents with Instagram accounts, and rating-thirsty and inhuman media.
The harm done to a minor - or even to an adult who is forced to read how much his mother is a cynical witch and his father is a predatory monster - need not be overstated, and is no less severe than the harms of boycott or abuse by classmates.
And yet, for some reason, in the realm of family wars this damage does not seem to move anyone.
The road to hell of the loss of privacy and privacy of children under the auspices of their parents' divorce battles is riddled with evil, bitter and futile intentions, which harm individuals but permeate and corrupt us as a society as well.
Such a society sacrifices to the ruler those whose only sin is that they have been forced into a bloody arena of divorce battles.
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