It’s never easy to leave home and especially not when home is Israel, and home is a country at war. Maybe it sounds strange to yearn for a place that seems so unsafe, but Israel is where I belong, not just because of my entire immediate family is there, but because living there is the fulfillment of God’s promise by living in the Land deeded by God to the people of Israel through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. When I leave, I leave part of my heart behind.
In nearly 11 months since the inhuman Oct.