“Today has been particularly nutty,” I wrote on our extended family WhatsApp group on Wednesday. A little while later a relative in America replied: “Nutty is a very unusual way of saying “frightening” “threatening” even “challenging.”

Not sure though how else to capture the absurdity of warnings going off while trying to follow the dance moves of DJ Raphi being projected onto the wall of the house as a fun family activity for those ranging from 3-76.

In Israel right now, our days refuse to fit into neat categories. The mundane and the momentous sit side by side on the same living room couch. One minute we are cheering on the “Little Giants” in a nostalgic showing to our kids of a good old movie from the nineties, and the next someone reads out a historic headline from their phone. Daily meaning is found in small gestures – a message from a friend overseas who checks in, a neighbor who pops by, a child sharing a........

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