Faith in Israel’s political leadership is flagging. Emunah in our Father in Heaven, on the other hand, is holding up fine
Ever since the outbreak of the war, I’ve aimed to provide a glimpse of developments behind the scenes, in the Kiryah command bunker and behind the closed doors of the war cabinet. But there are moments when the right thing is to leave all that aside and offer readers abroad a taste of the mood on the ground among the troops fighting the worst evil the Jewish People has encountered since the 1930s. These days, the soldiers’ voices reflect the public mood far more accurately than the nattering of journalists do.
Uri is a friend, a brother and partner. A moshavnik with no connection to the chareidim, called up the day the war broke out as a commander in artillery battalion 9238. This week Uri picked up the phone and called me, with Hezbollah’s shells exploding in the background.
“We’ve stopped listening to the news because it doesn’t reflect our feelings on the ground,” he said. “Please make our voices heard to your readers, both in Israel and abroad. It’s important that Am Yisrael, whose hearts are going out to Israel, be able to filter what they hear in the media. There’s no hate among us, only love. Am Yisrael chai.”
You got it, Uri.
“We’ve been sitting for more than 30 days on the border with Hezbollah on the other side of the fence,” he said. “And we’re seeing amazing unity. We have Hatzalah volunteers serving beside us, chareidim who volunteered as combat medics on the northern frontier. Most of the IDF’s combat medics were sent south to the battles in Gaza, so they came and filled their place in the most dedicated and professional way possible.”
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