Sandy Cardin

Oct 30, 2024 | israel21c.org | Rita Rubin |Sandy Cardin |JONATHAN FRENKEL

October 5, 2023. The last two days of the Sukkot holiday. My parents came to visit me at my new home in Kibbutz Lehavot HaBashan, located around 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the border between Israel and Lebanon. Together, we went on a tour of Mount Dov, the easternmost point of the borderline. The military personnel that helped organize the tour told us about the security at the border as we watched in amazement over Lebanon, seeing Hezbollah positions situated meters from us.

Oct 20, 2024 | israel21c.org | Sandy Cardin

Months before the heinous Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, alarm bells were already tolling in my mind. They weren’t ringing because I had any inkling of the horror that was about to unfold. Instead, they were drawing my attention to the dangerous rhetoric emanating from the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Never before in my lifetime had the levels of divisiveness, segmentation and fragmentation within Israeli society been so public and combative.