"My son asked me to call his friends from school, and when he answered, I say ok, you're alive, and then I called one of his best friends, and his mother answered, and said, listen, he died. And I had to tell him. They need to know. They can't live in a world... I don't want him to tell himself stories. I want him to know the truth, and I want him to have hope. I keep telling him we are strong, and we are safe here - he doesn't think we are safe here, in Elat. Like we went, they took him to watch stars with telescopes, and he kept looking, looking, looking, and I said what are you looking for, and he said terrorists."
October 7 converted the liberal Israelis who wanted to live in peace with their Gaza neighbors. They learned that the Gazans never had the same liberal ideations.