Between the eight calamities that promise death and disease and the tenth one, the death of the firstborn, all doubtlessly horrible state of affairs, sits the seemingly innocuous ninth plague—darkness. But his reading was incomplete, and much happened between his kidnapping and release—the war in Gaza itself, the continuous barrage of rockets from both Gaza and Lebanon, the Hezbollah pager operation, and the subsequent implosion of the Assad regime, the first Iranian strike on Israel, which had the Jewish state hunkered down in bomb shelters. His belief in a higher power might not be iron-clad, but Sharabi took another leap of faith, telling himself that his wife and daughters, from whom he was torn when they were in the middle of a massacre, are alive and waiting for him.
Author: Katya Sedgwick
Published at: 2025-11-09 23:30:14
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