After taking off his fighter's uniform, survivor Tal Morad and Maya Kay's ex asked Monday night to open his heart and share his feelings with his Instagram followers as he tries to make the complex transition from combatant to civilian after a long stay in the Gaza Strip. In the text he wrote beneath pictures from a night out at the Dead Sea with his comrades-in-arms, he sought to describe the reality he is currently facing.
Maya Kay in the daily report on Reshet 13 refers to parting from Tal Morad (archive)
"Ninety days Order 8, sixty days inside Gaza," Morad said. "Part of me is still inside Gaza. I'd love to summarize, but that's not reality. My little brother Tom is still fighting in Gaza... Lebanon is around the corner and close friends who fought with me will never return from Gaza," he wrote painfully. "My team and I took two quiet days at the Dead Sea, trying to process what we went through. Now the real war is the return to normal, along with the knowledge that maybe soon we will be in uniform again, for our country," he concluded.
Tal Morad and Maya Kay, Photo: Shuka Cohen
Last December, Morad wrote a little bit of what he went through during the fighting, marking four years since his mother's death. "Fifty days of maneuvering in Gaza, four years for my mother. I can't describe the feelings in words, because it's not digested yet. The last period for me is a complex of many thoughts and uncertainty. At the same time, it is important for me to note the magnitude of the mission and that I am doing what is required of me wholeheartedly and willingly."
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