ISRAEL HAYOM
The importance of being angry
by Annika Hernroth-Rothstein
January 19, 2016

…Days before her death, she [Dafna Meir murdered in front of her children Sunday near Hebron] wrote a short piece for the local media describing what it is to live in Israel today. “I have been thinking a great deal lately, thinking about why, what should be done or shouldn’t be or can’t be, how to behave, especially on the road, but not only. The fears, for my husband and children, my friends and family. The situation isn’t easy. I sometimes have a feeling of being in a game of Russian roulette. And I can’t sleep,” she wrote. I read her words just as her funeral procession set off toward the Har Hamenuhot cemetery in Jerusalem. I was profoundly saddened by the terror she had to endure in life, and equally moved by the grace and strength with which she lived despite it. And with that, my anger returned and I allowed the sorrow to wash over me. READ MORE