Two consecutive days of holiday are a great gift.
Beyond the sanctity of the holiday, its values, goals and content, there is also a forced disconnection from what is happening in the world and from technological means.
This is a matter that has been talked about a lot, and it is indeed very appealing to me. When Rosh Hashanah falls on Thursday and Friday and creates a sequence of three days - it is even more magical, but even two days is enough.
Every Shabbat observant knows this moment of turning on the cellphone on Saturday night or the holiday to see what happened, or what happened on the holiday.
Well this year, on Rosh Hashanah night 2024, I have to admit that this initial moment was very funny to me.
The first image that popped out in front of my eyes was of an indistinct circle of charcoal, with two legs sticking out of it.
At the very first second, I saw this image on more than one site, even before I saw the text.
The text told of an arson and vandalism of the Ben-Gurion statue on Tel Aviv's beach.
I will admit that I never knew about the existence of the statue, and the famous picture also gave me an unpleasant feeling of vandalism and vandalism, but the texts, oh the texts! They told a completely different story.
This name has been described as a crime at the political-national level, and it must be seen how it is handled and what is being done.
One website interviewed Moshi Ben-Eliezer, Ben-Gurion's grandson, and also showed a photo of him.
Elsewhere, Amos Yadlin, former head of Military Intelligence, went on the air, apparently to provide the intelligence angles of the event, and headlines shouted from every corner: Oh, what did we have?
This jarmonia went silent in two stages:
In the first stage, it turned out that it was a homeless man who carried out the arson - then the inflammatory responses went down to half-mast, then it turned out that he was an Arab, and within a second the whole thing went silent and there was nothing.
And it's a little terrible when you think about it.
Because these and similar news items in these crazy days are not news items. Nor do they relate to the story itself, to the event in question. They are just another charge in an indictment.
After all, above the head of the public there is a harsh indictment: against the situation, against the government, against the coup, against what you will.
Every piece of information – from train delays to explosive balloons in the south – does not stand on its own, but becomes another item in the indictment.
These and similar news items in these crazy days are not news items. Nor do they relate to the story itself, to the event in question. They are just another charge in an indictment. After all, above the head of the public there is a sharp indictment: against the situation, against the government, against the coup, against what you will
And the big problem is that in such a situation, the fact that the news has been refuted and has become irrelevant – because there is no public relevance to the act of not having an opinion – this fact is no longer relevant in itself.
The title has already been published and the section has already been drafted. Even if it turned out that the act actually did not happen - it does not really matter.
Because we've already gotten the gasoline to cast on the fire and it's already there, and the flames are already dancing, and they don't care who exactly is the homeless person who started the first fire - they focus on themselves, on the second fire.
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