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Gadi Eisenkot, former Chief of Staff, who lost a son and a nephew in this war, is perhaps the main reason Israelis have faith in the war cabinet.
“Rachel from Ofakim,” she was called. The woman who, while she was held hostage, baked cookies for the terrorists holding her and her husband hostage. She got a hug from President Biden. She even became a meme of sorts, in both Hebrew and English.
But, as Israeli news reported yesterday, none of that really made a difference for her husband, David. During the nineteen hours that she and her husband were held, something broke in David Edri. After he and his wife were saved by Israel’s Counterterrorism Unit, they were physically safe, and she became a bit of a folk hero. But not David. He…
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