"I died on the 120th day of the war, but I didn't tell anyone."

Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · Jun 8, 2025 · 1m

There’s a Facebook post that came out just yesterday (16 hours ago, as of this writing), that already has 10,000 responses, 2,500 shares, and 1,100 comments. It’s clearly touched something very deep here. It’s by someone named Ran Apelberg, whom I don’t know.

Below is a screenshot of part of the post, and below the screenshot, an AI-generated translation of the rather long post.

A few brief comments on the FB post, below.

I was killed on the 120th day of the war, but I didn’t tell anyone.The battles were raging and I didn’t want to hurt the guys’ morale.At the end of the month, I got leave.My…