War-time Cooking Tips
War-time Cooking Tips Have you ever tried to cook dinner in a war zone? I have lived on a kibbutz for all of my adult life. Most of the time, especially while my kids were small, we had a wonderful...
View ArticleWartime Routines
I live in the Western Negev, on a kibbutz (communal community) on the border with the Gaza Strip. We have been putting up with rockets and mortars for the past 11 years or so. This is a fact of life...
View ArticleIt’s all about education
What we tell our kids is so important. Different people have different ways of coping during stressful periods. I am not a writer, but writing (on CNN iReport) seems to help me deal when under fire. I...
View ArticleTunnel Vision
I have written earlier reports depicting how this escalation affects my life as a longtime resident of this region. Today I want to depict a threat that is not as publicized in the press around the...
View ArticleWhat Keeps Me Strong
I live on a kibbutz in Israel, on the border with the Gaza Strip. This is the 6th day of Operation Protective Edge. We have rockets and mortars being launched at us on a daily basis now. We have the...
View ArticleRunning for My Life
I live in a kibbutz (a communal village) on the border with the Gaza Strip. We are in the middle of an ongoing conflict that, as much as we would like it to, seems depressingly endless. As a widow, I...
View ArticleLife on the Border with the Gaza Strip - July 15th, 2014
This is the 8th day of Operation Protective Edge. I woke up this morning, and optimistically turned on the TV. Last night, when I went to bed, in my house on a kibbutz two kilometers from the border...
View ArticleThoughts on War and Peace in the Middle East while on a Six-Minute Walk
Warning: no exciting loud noises or action scenes… just little ole me talking to you. I live in a kibbutz (a communal village) on the border with the Gaza Strip. Despite the fact that we are in the...
View ArticleIn Lockdown
Kibbutz Nirim, on the border with the Gaza Strip It’s 5:40 am, Thursday morning, July 17th, 2014. We are just hours before an agreed humanitarian cease fire, set to last for five hours, starting at...
View ArticleNight in the war zone
Today (rather, yesterday already – it is after midnight as I write this) Israel agreed to 5-hour cease fire for humanitarian purposes requested by the U.N.. Hamas “agreed”. (Not that they actually...
View ArticleDissonance
Look out my kitchen window, into my backyard. What do you see? A field of potted sunflowers which have passed their prime. Pots of multicolored geraniums, their flowers blooming, fading, dying, budding...
View ArticleAn Outsider Couldn't Understand
There is a saying in Hebrew: “Zar Lo Yavin” - which means that an outsider to our culture could not understand. So I will try to explain. I was born in the States - Da Bronx, to be exact. My upbringing...
View ArticleLiving with Red Alerts
I was approached by CNN iReports to make a short video clip, depicting life on the Israel-Gaza border during these days of Operation Protective Edge. So I did. I am used to writing reports - but I...
View ArticleHolding our Breaths
As the days go on, this Operation Protective Edge is feeling more and more like a war. It is developing and changing so much that each day seems longer than 24 hours. I have learned that everything in...
View ArticleStart-up Nation Fighting to Stay on the Protective Edge
This war we are living through is not like previous wars. In the last wars (I'm only going back to 2012, and 2009... not 1948!) we had rockets and mortars launched at those of us who live on the...
View ArticleSuddenly a Parallel Universe
Yesterday, a reporter was due to come to interview me about what life is like for me, as someone who lives in a Kibbutz on the border of the Gaza Strip during these days of Operation Protective Edge....
View ArticleA Day in My Life
I was asked to document a day in my life, for a blog-based project running for a Hebrew daily newspaper. I have translated mine to English, and am sharing it on CNN iReport. To see the entire project,...
View ArticleWhen Hamas Lands in Your Backyard
I live in a peace-loving community on the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip. I have lived here since 1975. We have our very own “Peace Song” that was written in the 1950’s which, even then, sang about...
View ArticleTime to Come Home?
I live in a small community (kibbutz) on the border with the Gaza Strip. We just finished the 29th day of Operation Protective Edge. The tanks and artillery have ceased their thundering. The blaring...
View ArticleWelcome Home - Part I
I live on Kibbutz Nirim, less than a mile from the border with the Gaza Strip. Four hundred people usually live here. The children of this community were moved to more secure places on July 9th, when...
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