ALERT!!! WELCOME TO THE GREAT TRIBULATION AND THE START OF NATAN´S GOG OF MAGOG WAR #ISRAEL

It’s morning in Israel.

You can’t believe how little time has passed, that last week you were vacationing in the north, visiting family, hiking among tidepools, watching your children frolic and float on the Jordan River among beautiful young Israelis swinging from vines and canoeing, that you ate at a charming bistro on a goat farm on a mountain top.

You are tired because you couldn’t sleep, because just as you were finally starting to fall asleep even though how can you ever sleep again, you learn a wonderful family who hosted you for your niece’s bat mitzvah is facing the unbearable uncertainty of having a soldier son missing.

You finally get in a few very restless hours. War planes swirl overhead, a strange soporific.

Soon after, you get up and remember how the world has utterly changed, you’re forced to wake a sleeping daughter to tell her a close friend of hers died defending his people, a friend from her pre-army academy a couple of years back, a fierce friend and a warrior with a farm boy face and big smile who had been to your house a number of times. You hold your daughter as she cries for him and she wails that she has so, so many friends on the front lines and she worries that she could lose them all. You don’t know what to say. You try but any reassurance sounds hollow.