Speaking about Loss!

After living for 20 years in Israel, we know that Israelis don’t need to be taught about loss and carrying on afterwards. They have had centuries of practice and if we think we have it hard, looking at the way they ‘literally’ pick up the pieces after each suicide bombing makes you feel small indeed.
Some people wondered if it was right to go on living so fast after each calamity, but the people of Israel needed to show the world and their enemies that they would go on, regardless of what had happened to them.

I quote Judy Montagu’s last part of an article that appeared in the Jerusalem Post of July 14, 2009, entitled: In my own write: Gone but not forgotten.

“Those who have been seared by severe personal loss will never fully heal. How could they? But they press on, most of them, with a dogged fortitude that seems distilled from the combined experience of Jewish tragedy throughout the ages. They live their lives as best they can, despite their loss. What choice do they have? The only alternative is to lie down, to opt out, to give in and give up. They must feel the temptation, over and over again, to throw in the towel; but most of them don’t. They square their shoulders and carry on with their lives. It’s what Israelis do.”

The same spirit that helped forge the birth of Israel, is still prevalent today.
We feel so privileged to be living amongst these precious people!