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July 25Friday afternoonTel AvivLast night’s optimism has diminished. Search for tunnels continues under fire. 42 so far. How many more are there? 33 dead soldiers, the latest a reservist, married,...
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June 25Friday pm, Tel Aviv BeachYou can't let yourself get numb to war. Every death affects a neighbor. My kid is there. Lots of kids are there. They're talking ceasefire again. I want a ceasefire. But...
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July 26SaturdayTel AvivDay 10 of WarKalaidoscope Shabbat. Cabinet deliberated as we sat down to Friday night dinner last night, and woke up to an 8am to 8pm ceasefire the next morning. The usual quiet...
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July 27SundayTel AvivDay 11 of the warOptimism is short lived. It should have been an easy Sunday start to a work week here, given the 24 hour ceasefire announced at midnight last night. But it is a...
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July 28Monday Tel AvivDay 12 of the warYesterday, Sunday, started out rough, but got better. After we send a brave lone soldier off, I got a phone call from a strange Israeli man, turning my brain on...
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July 28Monday pmTel AvivDay (long) 12 of the warMaybe it was Kerry aligning with Turkey/Qatar against local Egypt/Abbas. Maybe Hamas was just waiting for the end of Ramadan. Or maybe Hamas needed to...
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July 29TuesdayTel AvivDay 13 of the warYesterday's re-escalation gave early grim results. A rocket killed 4 soldiers. Another died in Gaza. And a tunnel infiltration allowed an RPG - this is a war - to...
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July 29TuesdayDay 13 of the warPhone WavesEric called! Just as Sunday's news of Friday's sighting was wearing thin (it even sounds long), today Jacques' phone rang. Eric managed to borrow another...
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July 30Air Force BaseGreen LineWednesdayDay 14 of the warThis morning we drove Sara back to base, then stopped for coffee. Sara told me she had to sleep through the sounds of screaming jets when the...
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July 31ThursdayTel AvivDay 15 of the warThe supermarket in my suburban Tel Aviv neighborhood was packed today. Thursday. Getting ready for Shabbat. And the feasts after Ramadan. If you wanted to swap...
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August 1Tel AvivFridayDay 16 of the warAs we travel around Israel, going about a mostly normal if worried life, we see huge signs strung up on highways, buildings, stores, and restaurants thanking...
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August 1FridayUh oh. As soon as you think you can see the end....Ceasefire went from cynical to sinister this morning as Hamas took advantage of the 72-hour stoppage to capture a soldier who was...
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Take sides for peace. Egypt and Saudi Arabia demand release of soldier. Last time we got here the US released the pressure on Hamas by opening talks to Qatar (who houses Hamas' Mashaal and the $12...
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After midnight, August 2Friday/Saturday Day 17 of the warThe soldier chain jumped the gun and in fact, the IDF spent all day searching, with no final news of the welfare of kidnapped Hadar, a British...
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August 2-3Saturday/Sunday (Weekend edition)Tel AvivDays 17 and 18 of the warOne of the rewards of Shabbat dinner is the attendance of young adults, the kids of my husband’s childhood friends and my...
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August 4Tel Aviv suburbsDay 19 of the warMost troops are now stationed outside of Gaza, in nearby Israel. Eric is 2km inside Israel, and called us on a day of half-washing and half-resting. He is still...
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August 4EveningIt looks like the war has run out of gas. Mothers are starting to talk about seeing their kids again. Jewish grandmothers already started cooking. Just in case!Unless Hamas gets a Lucky...
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August 6Happy BirthdayEnd of the war (no more counting, though still waiting)War was an awesome experience: a diverse, modern nation taking a single stand. Officially, Operation Protective Edge is over...
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August 7Second Day of PeaceSpelling and After-mathSpellingThe Hebrew army apparently can't 'spell' Eric. We know he has broad shoulders, but please spell him already, i.e. relieve him of his tour of...
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August 8NetanyaTel AvivFridayEric got bussed home at 9pm on Thursday! Dad baked a cake. Eric arrived much cleaner than last time I saw him, just before the ground incursion. He got out for 15 hours...
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