What many people don’t understand about Israelis is that our emotional baseline is calibrated differently.

It isn’t because we are stronger or braver than anyone else. It’s because we live inside a reality where the ground shifts beneath our feet on a regular basis, and life still has to go on.

You can’t pause a country every time history decides to show up.

People abroad often imagine war as a clear event — something that begins, something that ends. A chapter in a history book.

Here it’s more like weather.

Sirens. Arguments about politics. School closures. Work meetings. A wedding tonight if the roads stay........

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