My middle child
is back in the army stationed near Kissufim, one of the villages that was
overrun and nearly destroyed by Arab terrorists on Simchat Torah last year.
Friday he sent out this translated message on our family group: Anyone who
needs challahs, cakes, bags of snacks, drinks, or toothpaste is happily invited
to come here. The amount of donations doesn’t stop.
How heartwarming to
read that even after 405 days of war, our soldiers are not being forgotten.
What is even more heartwarming is that since many of the residents of Kissufim
and other nearby towns have not yet returned home, most of those donations came
from places as far as 60-80 miles away.
Of course, we’re
a country full of Jewish mothers who kvell to feed our children in uniform. If
only a chocolate chip cookie could win the war, we would have had total victory
months ago.
On another note,
that same son informed me that his unit enabled the transfer of truckload after
truckload full of flour to Gaza last week. The transfer was supervised by both
European and American observers. Is any other country in the world expected to
feed its enemy? I don’t think so. Apparently the world knows that the Jewish People
are special.