Sivan Rahav-Meir

Oct. 7: From disaster zone to construction site This is not the day’s main headline — but it should be. Take a look at what...

Moriah Chen from the Hidabroot website published the following questionnaire for anyone who wants to gain a clearer picture of themselves and of their mission in the world: 1. What would you do for free? Think about the activities you do without noticing the passage of time. What makes you forget to eat or sleep? What subject can you talk about for hours without stopping? Sometimes your profession or direction in life is hidden in the things you would do even without being paid.

Odelia Eliav is the mother of Adiel, a paratrooper who was moderately wounded in Lebanon and is now hospitalized at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa. From there, she began sharing updates unlike any others. At first, she simply kept people posted about the injury, the surgery and the recovery. But by the next day, I saw a different kind of update from her: a list of thank-yous, one after another.

Chaim Elchanan Idan lives with cerebral palsy. He cannot walk, eat or speak on his own. A few years ago, when he tried typing on a computer as usual, he felt once again that his fingers weren’t responding quickly enough. His nose, on the other hand, tapped out letters in rapid succession. “Right now I’m typing to you with my nose,” he wrote when I reached out to him on WhatsApp.

Last week, in a single moment of terror, a missile fell near the home of the parents of the Peretz family in Bet Shemesh. The house that had been filled with memories and warmth was reduced to a pile of rubble.