We were Living through history

The 12 Day War from Inside Israel- Rabbi Norbert Weinberg

[Note: . All photos, unless marked otherwise are proprietary to the author]

Everyone said we are living through history!

Israel this summer is  like a Mark Chagall painting, a modern Vitebsk,  when nothing is where it should be, up is down and down is up, and there are no proportions or perspective. The other analogies could be drawn from a tale by Kafka, again, a verbal description of a surrealistic world.

We have been here in Israel from the very first night of what is called the “12 Day War”. Getting here itself was  Kafkaesque,  because every flight that we scheduled had to be rescheduled over and over again, thanks to the Houthis landing a missile near Ben Gurion airport . To boot, our luggage was lost in Paris, and sent to Amsterdam instead of Tel Aviv. 

( Image shown:  Marc Chagall, I and the Village. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1930  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marc_Chagall,_I_and_the_Village_(50394064557).jpg)

For the full report, go to:

http://www.rabbinorbert.com/2025/07/the-12-day-war-from-inside-israel.html

It was a stunning victory for the IDF and foreign allies who also downed the Iranian drones and missiles overy the other countries airspace. 

Will the Israeli - Iranian military exchange bring escalation to the region and ovestreached the IDF is not given. In meantime it has also been an undeniable success for the Netanyahu government, perhaps the first after the October 7, 2023 vicious attack by Hamas. 

Herzi Halevi, Israeli Chief of Staff speaks in this regard,

https://fb.watch/rz7dijS8lo/