Remember when we were young, in Tel Aviv? Were we beautiful like the kids at the Nova festival? Remember camping out in fields and parking lots all over the country? Weed covered in sand and only four types of beer at the bar? Kapulski and Spaghettim? Shotei HaNevua and Beit Habubot? Remember our wedding in Herzliya? Do you know where the video is? Remember thinking maybe they didn’t kill the three teens they kidnapped in 2014? The Breakfast Club? The Champa …
For the past 10 months the family of Avera Mengistu has lived with trauma and uncertainty. Their son has been missing in Gaza, his whereabouts and health unknown, with no sign of life. The fact that he crossed into the Strip willingly, and has a history of mental distress is probably of no consolation. They have also, it turns out, not been treated with the level of urgency and sympathy one would expect for the family of an Israeli citizen held …
Did you come to see the house that was hit by the rocket?” asked a little Ethiopian-Israeli boy. “The whole world’s already been here,” The child ran off to play soccer in a run-down courtyard nearby and I continued to the site of the attack that claimed the lives of three Israelis two weeks earlier.