Since the massacre in the Gaza Strip, I find myself in tears in front of the videos, in front of the interviews, in front of the soldiers.
There is no ability to contain all the pain, sorrow and loss. Everyone, I suppose, puts himself in the situation and thinks about what he would do if only one child had to be saved. If one had to choose between parents and children, between spouse and sibling.
Incomprehensible situations, that happened.
A video from that Saturday circulated on social networks documenting the rescue of a girl and baby from a car in Sderot. The parents were murdered, the echoes of the gunshots all around can be heard clearly.
One of the officers approaches, and when he opens the back door of the car, the voice of the 6-year-old girl is heard in a voice full of terror, begging for her life - "No, please no," she shouts, convinced that they have come to shoot her. The policeman tells her: "Police, police, don't shoot." Trying to reassure.
And the girl says, "Are you Israel's?" "Yes, sweetheart, yes," the policeman replies. "Take us," she begs. "We'll take you," he replies, "come." Then she says in a crying voice: "I'm here with a baby."
And you see a little baby covered in some red object. And he calms her down and says, "We'll take you both." The heart was torn.
Last week I was at another mourning ceremony for a family that had lost loved ones in the envelope. Another family that can't even bury their loved one in the kibbutz where they lived. I was also in an encampment for the families of the abductees. The anger there is building up. Helplessness does not give rest.
And I went to the Expo in Tel Aviv to buy vegetables and fruits from the envelope, as part of my contribution to the community. And I was also in a café with girlfriends. And we sat and ate and laughed for about an hour, in which reality resembled what we knew before October 7.
I tell this because I understand that the families of the abductees feel that Tel Aviv has returned to their lives. And they're right. Cafes are bustling, restaurants are back in part, and not just in deliveries, and even movie theaters are back showing movies. The Home Front Command approved a return to normal life, while they were left helpless.
It is good for every Tel Avivian and every Israeli citizen who is not afraid to drive on Israeli roads to come to the encampment of the abductees in the plaza of the Tel Aviv Museum or in front of the gate at the Kirya in Kaplan. Yes, we must show solidarity with their struggle to return all the abductees
The first minute I heard what the families were thinking, I said, 'Wow, they're right.' We all need to be by their side and conduct the struggle with them, and it is good that every Tel Avivian and every Israeli citizen who is not afraid to drive on Israel's roads should come to the encampment of the abductees in the plaza of the Tel Aviv Museum or in front of the gate at the Kirya in Kaplan. Yes, we must show solidarity with their struggle to return all the abductees, including Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul, whom Hamas has held since Operation Protective Edge. And that we remember never to normalize the situation, because it is not normal and it is forbidden to get used to it.
But, there is also a flip side to the same coin.
The strength of a company is tested precisely in difficult times. The fact that people are returning to work, to live, and to sit in cafes does not indicate a lack of interest in what happened to the envelope community or weakness and disconnection. It points to the strength of society, which ultimately must return to producing and consuming and living.
Because we are all – yes, all of us – one living human tissue. And if one of us goes away, something dies in us and something stays with him.
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