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Published: August 4, 2024

The Resilience of Israel: A People Built to Withstand, Tested by Ongoing Hamas War

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Ten months after the Hamas attack of October 7, Israel’s sons, daughters, fathers, and friends are still going off to war, or being held hostage inside Gaza.

Many in the Jewish community describe feeling, “frozen in time,” since the day it all began. 

“The morning of the seventh, everybody remembers, like where they were at that moment,” explained Yael, a military spouse.

Active duty and reserve soldiers alike, immediately packed their bags and responded to a call that had not yet come. 

“He just picked up his, you know, his gear, got all his things for reserve duty. His friend from his crew pick him up and they drove straight to the base,” Yael told CBN News.

“He got ready in like five minutes, and he gave me a hug, and he said, ‘I’ll take your car, and I’ll bring it back…’ The next time I saw my car, it was three and a half months later,” recalls Amira, the mother of a reservist. 

Family members left behind to wonder, worry, and hold down the homefront, then and now.

“It’s been a really rough time, a really restless time, a very insecure time. A time where dad, most of the time,

The remainder of this article is available in its entirety at CBN


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