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Guest writer: E. On the 22nd day of your 8th Order* you get 24 hours off. All you want to do is run away, to some small island of…
Category: July Story Journal
The Leftern Wall’s Top 14 from 2014
2014 was a heartrending year, filled with some devastatingly low lows and a few moments of decency shining between the cracks. There’s been substantial interest in the goings-on here in Israel-Palestine in general (especially in July-August, 2014), and […]
30 Stories from this desperate July. A recap of the July Story Journal.
On June 30th, 2014, I publicly committed to telling or posting one story every day for the month of July (July Story Journal- Introduction). Things were tense then, but I did not and could not […]
A Conversation That’s Been Had (a story from a bus in Jerusalem)
[Preface: This is the final installment of The Leftern Wall July Story Journal (I know, it’s no longer July). It is a bit longer than usual, but worth reading every word. Thank you all for […]
The Orange Tree: An Israeli reserve soldier speaks about loss
Guest writer: Elazar Weiss On the 22nd day of your 8th Order* you get 24 hours off. All you want to do is run away, to some small island of sanity. Just for a few […]
The Catastrophe of Losing Everything You Own (July Story Journal: Gaza)
Guest writer: Kamal* from Gaza We received warnings from the Israeli military that our whole area in northern Gaza must evacuate. I left home with my wife and seven children and took shelter in the […]
“We saw death in every step and I can’t believe I’m still alive” (July Story Journal: Gaza)
Guest writer: Itaf from Gaza.* I’ve lived through two days that I could never have imagined. When the bombing intensified, I fled the house with my husband and two year old son. Hundreds of people were […]
The things we’ve lost (July Story Journal)
Guest writer: Rebecca Hughes Today I reread an email I wrote to a friend on September 9th, 2009 – one year and one day after I moved to Israel. Moving to Israel has been my […]
Udi Segal, 19, refuses to serve in the army and is sent to jail (July Story Journal)
[Co-written,interviewed, filmed and edited with the indomitable Yuval Orr; originally published in +972 Magazine] For the past month, the news in Israel/Palestine has been filled with reports ofmore and more people killed, the vast majority […]
Pepper Sprayed & Pursued in North Tel Aviv
It happened after the demonstration -the biggest in Tel Aviv against the war yet, estimates of over 6,000 demonstrators- had mostly dispersed. The now-familiar group of right-wing demonstrators had worked themselves up into a frenzy throughout […]
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