Wartime Diaries: Aliza Raz-Melzer

There has been endless talk of the “Home Front” during this war. The “Home Front” refers to what goes on here in Israel, as opposed to what happens on the battlefield – in the streets and alleyways of Gaza.

But there is of course also a literal home front, or rather many different kinds of home fronts: some are stoic, others less so; some are somehow managing, others not at all. Much to her dismay, Aliza Raz-Melzer’s 50-year-old husband Amiad volunteered to go fight. She gave us a glance into her home front. This is a home front that is conflicted – proud and supportive on the one hand, yet divided and even furious on the other.

The end song is K’She’Ata Kan (“When You Are Here”) by Ninet Tayeb. (Licensed by Israel Story through Acum.)

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