Wartime Diaries: Hugo (Uri) Wolaj

The war has been going on for over three months, and many of us have settled into some sort of altered routine, a “new normal.” But there are hundreds of thousands of people, possibly millions, for whom nothing is normal.

Hugo (Uri) Wolaj of Kibbutz Be’eri is one of them. Everything about his life – his job, his friends, his family, his parenting style, everything – changed on October 7th. Uri spent more than 20 hours that day hiding with his wife and daughters in the safe room. They were evacuated to a Dead Sea hotel in the early hours of October 8th and have been there ever since. But last week he returned to Be’eri, for a rare and eerie visit to his own home.

The end song is Lo Levad (“Not Alone”) by Jane Bordeaux. (Licensed by Israel Story through Acum)

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