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"Cars Escape From The Fire, Super Shelves Are Empty": The Week That Changed The World | Israel today

2022-03-02T21:37:01.576Z


A week since the outbreak of the war, and the dreams of a safer and better world that we will leave for our children are shattered • The sights of families trying into the unknown are a flashback to the previous century


Ruins on the streets of Kharkiv, Photo: Reuters

We're going to war, to the Moldova-Ukraine border.

In the opposite lane - cars escaping from the fire.

Soft flakes dance on the glass of car windows, and a festive layer of snow envelops the mountains.

Wars are already happening in the winter.

Ukrainian refugees in Przemyśl, Polish border city, Photo: Reuters

We did not fly to Moldova.

Her sky has been locked for a week.

This young and poor republic seems to fear that it is next in line.

We flew to Yishi in Romania via Warsaw in Poland, and from there we continued on horseback to Chisinau.

A delegation of journalists, who came to cover the assistance of the Friendship Fund for Jewish Refugees through food, medicine, clothing, transportation, temporary housing and also psychological assistance.

Since the outbreak of the war, the foundation has raised $ 4 million from Israeli friends in the United States and Canada.

Demonstrating against the war in Brussels,

On the Long Roads I perused Yuval Noah Harari's book, "The History of Tomorrow."

In the first chapter, Noah Harari describes that the 21st century is fundamentally different from the century before it, because humanity is advancing towards the eradication of famine, wars and epidemics.

The train station in Kiev is packed with passengers who fled the city, Photo: AFP

A beautiful and profound analysis is presented by the Israeli historian, whose books have reached all corners of the globe.

How beautiful, how painful.

It hurts like the confused eyes of Yeva, a one-year-old and three-month-old toddler who escaped the inferno in Kiev, rolled with her father to Romania and is now fleeing with him to Barcelona.

It hurts like the strange mask her father puts on his face against the raging epidemic.

She's still here, the corona, even if Putin does everything to be forgotten.

It hurts like the shelves of writers running out of Ukraine, a country that has earned the nickname "Europe's grain barn."

A week after the outbreak of war, we begin to realize that we do not understand.

The theses that sought to decipher and order our world are shattered.

The dreams of a safer and better world that we will leave here for our descendants are becoming more and more common.

The sights of families trying into the unknown, without knowing how long, are flashbacks to the previous century.

Moscow's threats to use nuclear weapons, and Tehran's savage race up the centrifuges, are, sadly, the history of tomorrow.

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Source: israelhayom

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