134: Wartime Diaries - Hugo (Uri) Wolaj

134: Wartime Diaries - Hugo (Uri) Wolaj

Author: Israel Story January 22, 2024 Duration: 22:06

The war has been going on for over three months, and many of us have settled into some sort of altered routine, a "new normal." But there are hundreds of thousands of people, possibly millions, for whom nothing is normal. Hugo (Uri) Wolaj of Kibbutz Be’eri is one of them: everything about his life - his job, his friends, his family, his parenting style, everything - changed on October 7th. Uri spent more than 20 hours that day hiding with his wife and daughters in the safe room. They were evacuated to a Dead Sea hotel in the early hours of October 8th and have been there ever since. But last week he returned to Be’eri, for a rare and eerie visit to his own home.


The end song is Lo Levad ("Not Alone") by Jane Bordeaux.

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