She deserves more | Israel today

If I were Jerusalem, I would throw the keys on the table.

Does not throw, because it is not her style, maybe puts on the wall between the suns and then disappears them in some small and mysterious "poo".

Let no one touch my gates or say that he keeps me united, that I will not be used in broadcasts four times a year for the sake of fake parties, or roots, or atmosphere, and then they will be trampled on.

Because Jerusalem has long since become a political currency, and is several levels above this dirty game - an Israeli game in which it is a lump of well-glued rags, in which politicians and broadcast and printed editions play devotion.

Jerusalem is delivered, but we are not dedicated to it at all.

28 Iyar is a holy date. How do I know? Because there is an episode about it in the masterpiece series "The House of Pistachio". Pistachio (Sefi Rivlin) and Raga (Tzipi Moore) travel to visit Aunt Hannah in Jerusalem. Buried at the Western Wall, Sefi Rivlin writes to God: "Make Aunt Hannah healthy, and I do not care that all Auntie Hannah be healthy, too." The train leads them astray Of the capital, including Avraham Moshe Lunz, a legendary woman who uncovered the Garbage Gate, and a paratrooper who liberated Jerusalem through the Lions Gate.

When the two leave the cave, they arrive by chance at the celebration of Jerusalem Day at the Western Wall plaza.

Look for the program on YouTube and be amazed: hundreds of kindergarten children without kippahs or skirts, singing with kindergarten teachers and their uncle from "Nice Butterfly" Jerusalem songs, clapping and dancing in circles.

And not just Jerusalemites.

20 years later, Jerusalem Day celebrations became a private segment of religious.

The secularists abandoned, by the way, were not excluded.

Secular education, too, could have initiated a nocturnal march that resembled the historic break-in to the Old City, after all they were not dos, the warriors - but somehow it did not happen.

In our family, since we studied in secular education, the parents expelled us from school and created a family morak. For years it took me to understand that only we recite one of the biblical texts ever written: "To the Old City / And soon we are about to enter it / The Old City of Jerusalem, which all generations have been dreaming of and aspiring to."

Years passed, the nocturnal procession became the "dance flags" of the afternoon, and what began as the way for Bnei Akiva to meet girls between the Lions' Gate and the City of David, became the outspoken altar horns of Amar Bar-Lev.

The parade thanks to which there is something to do, an excuse to hate the flag.

And the unattainable beloved, Jerusalem.

It is important to say that even the right has forgotten: the announcement that a march with Israeli flags will pass through the Nablus Gate is not an item.

This news is recycled every year towards the 28th of Iyar. But this is not news. Because if it is news, then it is possible to erase from the calendar the day of the liberation of Jerusalem, which in any case most Israelis erased from their minds, and it is possible to erase the Six Day War from our victory calendar. On the expiration date.

Mota's narration on the way to the Lions' Gate was not a one-time prophecy or an imaginary poem.

It is meant for practice.

And if the practice of Jewish life in the capital is an item, or a political ax to dig with, then we have lost.

We are celebrating our anniversary with Jerusalem on one side.

As long as someone comes to the meeting place, there is something to save, but from year to year the pulse weakens.

As a country, we are not in the business of Jerusalem.

And she totally deserves more. 

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