Ever since the Simchat Torah pogrom in southern Israel – some ten months ago – and now what is, in effect, war with Hezbollah in the north – the very existence of the Jewish state is under threat. This not the first time this has happened, by any means....
After nearly five months of war, our reserve soldiers are starting to come home. On the morning of 7 October, as the IDF generals and the Israeli government were trying to make sense of the attacks that had surprised Israel
On the last day of Succot – Simchat Torah – the nation of Israel woke up to the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust. What happened that day is indelibly etched on the Israeli psyche and will be for generations to come.