Hi,
This is not the first waiting period in Israel, and not even the first waiting time for our two and an half years son (Dub)…
The one I think about when talks about the waiting period is the time before the Six day war that ended with one of Israel successful wars (other claims it was so successful it created most of today Israel problems).
That period in 1967 was about 3 weeks. This waiting period (from around January 13th 2025) is already in this situation for about 5 weeks – the longest foreplay in the history?
Living in Israel While Waiting for an Iranian Attack is trying to figure out if you should be stacking food and supplies, running for batteries, checking your passports are expired (and if so, sleep in the nearest interior ministry because getting in line is impossible for next half a year…), not driving far away.
But on the same time trying to avoid it all: making planes for the weekend, the week after it, for Purim, which is in two weeks and so on without taking account the fact war might happens tomorrow morning. Or tonight.
And it hard to avoid it when all the news, Israeli officials and President Trump keep explaining how everything might start within days. You keep hearing how more people are being drafted for certain missions ( timesofisrael.com, businesstoday.in)
Zoom (or Teams) meeting often start with “no war yet?”, or “you have not been drafted yet”? half kidding half in serious. WhatApp groups chats are sometimes going crazy when someone is losing their temper about how everyone is so cool about it. The municipal SMS announcements about how nothing change, but just in case we remind you to keep water and food in your protected area.
Iran is fortifying its military and nuclear sites, with Iran’s ballistic missile program repeatedly cited as a direct threat to Israel’s security. How is it that Israel is the target for Iran’s ballistic missiles, when USA is about to attack Iran?
Maybe because we are the non – Muslim country in the Middle East, so it the easiest to attack and put pressure on the USA not to attack (although there are talks Iran might attack Europe as well). Just like happened in the Gulf war, when Iraq had launched Scud missiles towards Israel, when a coalition of countries attacked Iraq…
And so we wait.
Take Care
Gad
A board game our kids got in school to practice in case of emergency such as earthquake or missile attack
If it is not tonight, as far as I’m concerned, we attack the US (Zion Gideoni X profile)