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The “Quiet” Trauma that Lingers in Israel Over coffee recently, the mother of three young adult sons tells me that her youngest son, who spent a year fighting in Gaza, had memorial ceremonies to attend on the same day for four different friends killed during the war. It was impossible to attend all of them, so instead he went to the gatherings for two of them being held at Jerusalem's Mt. Herzl cemetery. One was a close friend he grew up with in the scouts movement. The second was also a dear friend from the same combat unit. The two had sat side-by-side in the car on October 7. The mother, a psychologist named Noorit Felsenthal Berger, decided to accompany her son to Mt. Herzl, the national cemetery. She was taken aback at the sight of hundreds of new graves on its sloping hills, and – crowded in between them – crowds of young people who had come to grieve anew and remember their fallen friends. |
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Dina Kraft is a journalist, podcaster and the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, My Friend Anne Frank, together with Hannah Pick-Goslar. She lives in Tel Aviv where she's the Israel Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor and a creator of the podcast Groundwork, about activists working in Israel and Palestine. She was formerly the opinion editor of Haaretz English. |
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Legislative Round-Up, December 5, 2025 Of special note: - December 11, 2025: Members of Congress, CPJ, Amnesty International USA to hold press conference about Israel’s systematic targeting of journalists, ft. Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT), Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD); Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT); Dylan Collins, AFP video journalist and survivor of October 13, 2023, targeted Israeli attack; Amelia Evans, advocacy director at the Committee to Protect Journalists; Elizabeth Rghebi, advocacy director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International USA
—————————- 1. Bills & Resolutions (CONDEMNING ANTI-PALESTINIAN HATE) S. Res. 529 [resolution text]: Introduced 12/4/25 by Welch (D-VT) and Sanders (I-VT), “A resolution condemning anti-Palestinian hatred on the anniversary of the attack in Burlington, Vermont, on November 25, 2023.” Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Also see: press release – Welch Introduces Resolution Condemning Anti-Palestinian Hate |
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