En artikel som beskriver hur det är att leva mellan krig och fred, mellan det normala och det onormala.
Ceasefire nation: Caught between war and peace, can Israelis move forward?
Day to day, most Israelis aren’t living in wartime, but with shaky truces on 3 fronts and the possibility of conflict around the corner, psychologists say that isn’t enough to heal
How do you react to the sound of a motorcycle revving?
If you’ve lived in Israel since October 7, 2023, you might feel a jolt of anxiety, a quickening of the pulse, until, half a second later, it clicks that what you just heard was not, in fact, the beginning of a siren warning of an incoming missile attack. It just so happens that those two things — motorcycles and sirens — sound very similar.
Or maybe you’re out at dinner, or taking a train, or relaxing on a park bench enjoying a sunny day, when you glance around and notice that where you’re sitting — the park bench, the restaurant window, a concrete column on the train platform — is covered in bumper stickers emblazoned with the faces of some of the 2,000 Israelis who have been killed since October 7.
Almost all of them are smiling, and, if you’re an adult, almost all of them are younger than you. You were once their age. They will never be your age.
And yet, there is no war, at least not right now, at least not for most. A ceasefire has been in place in Gaza for more than six months, in Iran for more than a month.
A third ceasefire, in the north, has unraveled, and residents of the embattled border towns remain very much at risk....
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