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 …
I rear-ended some settlers in a mini-van in the West Bank that afternoon, just before pulling into the settlement of Talmon for the funeral. There was no damage and we parted ways with a smile, joining the convoy snaking up to the ceremony. Hundreds of people were waiting in Talmon to bury 16-year-old Gil-Ad Shaer, murdered 18 days earlier on June 12th along with teenagers Naftali Frenkel and Eyal Yifrah, after they were kidnapped at a hitchhiking post in the West …
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.