25 days into the fighting, it can already be said that there are people, places, concepts and phenomena that have become part of our being, for better or for worse. We've compiled them all into the full dictionary of Iron Sword Warfare, so far:
IDF Spokesperson: Number of abductees in Gaza rises to 240 // IDF Spokesperson
A - Responsibility / Brothers in Arms
Responsibility – customary to take, it is also possible to receive.
Netanyahu. Did not take responsibility, photo: Dana Koppel
Brothers in arms – on the first day of the war they took care of equipment for the army, on the second day they collected donations, and then the Expo opened in Tel Aviv, which proved who is waging this war and who is actually responsible for what is happening in the local economy: the citizens themselves.
Wholeheartedly. Brothers in Arms compound at Expo in Tel Aviv, photo: Coco
B - Home
Home – this thing we're fighting for. May we remember to stop fighting within it.
Tuesday - Joe Biden / Golani
Joe Biden arrived just when we needed him, with a speech to the Pantheon. Those who doubted who our senior friend in the world was, finally understood the right answer. When will we be added as the 51st country?
President Biden: "The United States stands with you - the people of Israel are alive!" // Reuters
Golani – From the War of Independence to the War of Iron Swords, Golani is synonymous with heroism, courage and devotion. In the battles of October 7, the brigade's fighters provided the first response, eliminated hundreds of terrorists and lost 71 of their comrades.
D - Daniel Hagari
Daniel Hagari – Like Nachman Shai, only handsome. Like Oded Ben Ami, only without a delightful voice. Talking about this wearable business is probably the most difficult task in the world of communication. In the meantime, he is the best on the field.
IDF Spokesperson Daniel Hagari, Photo: Gideon Markowitz
Thu - Hasbara
Advocacy – another area in which the country received a resounding failing grade, and private citizens, some of them global celebrities with millions of followers, picked up the gauntlet. That's how it is when the minister blames the media. I wonder if she already had how to print her resignation letter.
Blames the media. Galit Distel, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
Friday - Vaturi Nissim
And Vettori Nissim – and also my uncle Amsalem, and Orit Strock, and anyone who thought it was possible to do without the United States and disappeared in the dark. Israeli society is cleaner without their divisive and inflammatory discourse. But when it's time for conclusions, their name will be high on the list.
MK Nissim Vaturi (archive), photo: Oren Ben Hakon
G - Memory
Memory – how much of it has been lost, and how much of it needs to be preserved in order for us to know how to grow. Someone who said (Yigal Allon) has already said: "A people that does not know its past, its present is meager and its future is shrouded in fog."
H - Abductees / Haddad Yusef
There are so many reasons not to sleep at night in the past month, but it is doubtful whether there is anything that deprives us of sleep like this immense pain. Knowing that we are in a country that once lived with Ron Arad and Gilad Shalit in mind every day, and has allowed more than 200 families to walk among us like ghosts for so long.
"Our heart is in Gaza": Alongside protests, families of abductees hold joint press conference // Moshe Ben Simhon
Haddad Yousef – In Hebrew, English and Arabic, the hero of Israel who was severely wounded in Lebanon II became the national explainer.
Yousef Haddad, Photo: Ancho Ghosh/Ginny
T - Turkey
Turkey – Unfortunately, in about two years we will all return to the clubs in Antalya, continue to eat floury tomatoes that come from there and tell us how we are loved. Because Jews, and certainly Israelis, have a short memory. The main thing is that it is cheap and that we do not feel like suckers. But we do.
Turkish President Erdogan regrets support for Hamas, photo: AP
Y. - Yitzhak Brik / Yossian Eliyahu / Yachad
Isaac Brick – Yes, he predicted everything (not really). Yes, Bibi invited him to a meeting (but it is doubtful whether he really listened to him). And yes, it is the classic solution for researchers who get stuck without items.
Yossian Eliyahu – Between cult phrases with a Persian accent about Yiddish and Arabic, hummus and sushi, this man presents us with a realistic mirror about the neighborhood in which we live.
Here to stay. Yosian, photo: screenshot
Together – because (really) that's the only way we'll win.
20 - Preparatory classes
Alert squads – citizens who went out, and this is not a metaphor, to fight for their homes. In front of hundreds of terrorists, until the last bullet. Their displays of heroism are being written and will continue to be written, but the abject failure to deal with them before the war, in taking their weapons and emptying their cartridges, must also be remembered and reminded. There are those who decided on it.
L. - Lifshitz Yocheved
Lifshitz Yocheved – an 85-year-old kibbutz woman who was kidnapped from her home on Saturday morning, was returned and "dared" to be interviewed without asking Big Brother. You, who were offended because you were not invited to her "party" and accuse her of leftist agendas and aiding the enemy, no less, should remember that her husband and more than 200 children, women, the elderly and soldiers are still in captivity in Gaza. She spoke for them.
She spoke for all the abductees. Yocheved Lifshitz, Photo: Gideon Markowitz
M - Police and Border Police / Manny Mamtara
Police and Border Police – from the call center personnel to the female fighters in the field, SWAT, SWAT, SWAT, MALAN, tactical brigade, Yo Nim It – they did it.
Manny from Matera – from imitation of an ostrich daughter – to the terrorists terrorists. It is doubtful whether this cute child star ever thought that this is where his career would take him, a loop play for Hamas terrorists that has become a viral phenomenon across continents and part of Israeli public diplomacy.
N - Noam Tibon / Nova
Noam Tibon – together with Israel Ziv and Yair Golan. The first one leapt to save the son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren who were in Nahal Oz and did not stop until he heard the words "Grandpa is coming." The other two just went to save people. Along the way, these three champions taught those who need to lead by example.
We will also dance in Yarkon Park. Nova party, photo: GettyImages
Nova- The only victory picture from this war will be from a Nova party, with Buddha in the middle, where the entire nation of Israel will dance in Yarkon Park, at six after the war. The pictures from the party that became the scene of a massacre will always connect us with unimaginable sadness and pain, but in the end also with people who danced and smiled, until the end.
S. - Sinwar Yehya
Sinwar Yehya – and Muhammad Deif, and Khaled Mashaal. Mortal.
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar photo: AP
P - Mutual Guarantee
Mutual responsibility – revealed (again) in all its glory. But why only in wars or when it is difficult? In the high-tech nation, they would say a point of preservation.
Together we will win. Letter of encouragement to residents of the south, photo: Coco
P. - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post-trauma – "Feelings of fear, anxiety and helplessness that stem from intrusive memories of an event and can severely impair the management of life. About 10 per cent of residents in Israel suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. Post-trauma prevention models for shock victims combine an expression of commitment to stay with the victim, encouraging him to perform simple actions, asking for answers to rational questions, and structuring the sequence of events. Treatment after receiving a diagnosis can focus on the trauma itself or coping with the present" (from Wikipedia). Or in short – treat, treat, treat.
Z - Hypocrisy / North
Hypocrisy – from Greta Thunberg, probably the most annoying teenager in history, to ignorant keyboard criminals to various media, especially weird ones, that spread fake news for breakfast. It's no wonder that one of the funniest and most common memes on the Internet is a mother yelling at her daughter, "If you don't stop lying, you'll end up being a BBC journalist."
Persona non Greta, and friends, photo: from Greta Thunberg's Instagram account
The north: the second of three fronts (including Judea and Samaria), with missiles every day, tens of thousands of civilians evacuated from their homes, and one Nasrallah sitting on the fence. Eyes there too, all the time.
K. - Kushmaru Danny / Kibbutzim
Kushmaru Dani – The war's media man. With sensitivity and determination, and without much sleep, those who until the war appeared to be a lover of extreme articles reinvented themselves with a wide heart, good (and tearful) eyes and a sharp head. PS: Don't worry Tamir Steinman and Almog Boker, we've noticed you too.
Kibbutzim – and moshavim, and Sderot, and Ofakim, and Beeri, and Kfar Gaza, and Nir Oz, and Nir Am, and Nahal Oz, and Netiv Ha'asara, and on and on, a never-ending list. Give them everything, without bureaucracy and paperwork, and trust them that flowers and smiles will grow from the ashes from which they were extracted.
We'll be back to smiling and flourishing. Kibbutz Be'eri, after the massacre, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
R - Rachel Cookies
Rachel Cookies – We are beginning to understand that the real heroines of the blow we received are the women: Rachel Cookies who became a symbol and so many other fighters and combat supporters, who reminded us that there are too many men in the Kirya pit.
Hero and heroine. President BidenMarab and Rachel Cookie are reserved, Photo: AFP
Q - Mustaches
Mustaches – every war does need some kind of good trend, and there really isn't one on our reservists, but after getting used to beards over the past decade, now get mustaches... While this is not the time to discuss this, we will settle accounts with those who thought it was cool.
Cool you mustachioed reservist, photo: Eyal Margolin - Ginni
A - Ground Maneuver / Return
Ground maneuver – yes, the taxi driver, the vegetable seller, the journalists, the Knesset members. You all understand everything. A moment ago we could not guess a single game in Toto, now we all require a ground maneuver.
Bring them home. Now.
Demonstration of the families of the abductees (archive), photo: Coco
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