Israeli Society Thread

[Samsonov]

@Nivsch It seems like you are very invested in trying to improve Israel's image on this forum, I appreciate that you care and want to bring forth the better sides of Israel that you know and love, and I also find it hard when the view here is so one sided. I want to remind you that trying to force someone to change their mind doesn't work. Please take that burden of your shoulder, let them spin whatever theories they will spin and wait for the truth to shines forth, whatever that truth may be. 

[Nivsch]

@Samsonov Hey and thank you for the caring. 

Actually it is quite effortless to me and I pretty enjoy to show other facets rooted in my decades of experience living in Israel.

Whenever it won't be pleasant anymore I won't write here and just stay in the spirituality sub forums.

I like to talk with whoever I feel I can talk with and overall I know I can't control and won't change anyones opinion unless he is open to a change.

In fact I don't want to strictly 'convince' anybody and feel it won't make me anymore happy, but rather more to build bridges if to phrase it in that way and to spread more light and show a more truthful big picture what is satisfied by itself to me.

Edited January 10 by Nivsch

[Nivsch]

"How long I have been waiting for this moment" Hostage Deal.

Edited January 15 by Nivsch

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Edited January 16 by Raze

[Nivsch]

Judges' performance "For the hostages" of Hurricane that represented Israel in Eurovision.

 

Edited January 16 by Nivsch

[Lila9]

https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-838138

[Nivsch]

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[Nivsch]

Nova survivor Yuval Raphael's new Gold performance.

 

Edited January 21 by Nivsch

[Nivsch]

On 21.1.2025 at 11:35 PM, Nivsch said:

Nova survivor Yuval Raphael's new Gold performance.

 

Official: Just now got elected to be Israel's representative in Eurovision 2025.

(Won the competition)

Edited January 22 by Nivsch

[Lila9]

15 hours ago, Nivsch said:

Official: Just now got elected to be Israel's representative in Eurovision 2025.

(Won the competition)

Didn’t watch the entire competition but her voice is stunning.

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[Nivsch]

 

On 23.1.2025 at 3:12 PM, Lila9 said:

Didn’t watch the entire competition but her voice is stunning.

She feels to me more connected to what she sings then anyone else there and express this with singing but also with body language so profoundly good (a better link).

https://www.mako.co.il/mako-vod-keshet/the-next-star-s11/short/Video-7c54f7c6d3b7491026.htm

Edited January 26 by Nivsch

[Lila9]

18 hours ago, Nivsch said:

 

She feels to me more connected to what she sings then anyone else there and express this with singing but also with body language so profoundly good (a better link).

https://www.mako.co.il/mako-vod-keshet/the-next-star-s11/short/Video-7c54f7c6d3b7491026.htm

Can’t wait to see her performance in the Eurovision 2025 ✨

[Lila9]

Beautiful conversation between a holocaust survivor and an Oct 7 Nova survivor:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFVeHDeO4Iy/?igsh=MWpvMGt6aWtocXh6Zw==

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[Nivsch]

" I caught one of my students with cheat notes.

This happened a few minutes after the exam started. I gathered the notes he had written and asked him to go outside, taking his exam from him. He was upset, anxious, and shocked, and I saw him sitting on one of the hallway benches lying down and crying. I asked the exam supervisor to stay with them, and I went out to him.

He cried a lot, and I could see he was upset, so I sat next to him and asked why he was crying. The first thing he said was: "I'm so sorry, you know I’m a good student and that I know the material." I thought to myself that this was the best educational opportunity that would come my way with him.

" I know you know the material, the question is whether you know this." He looked at me through his tears and had nothing to say. "The exam is not about history or the Middle Ages, it’s not really important to me. What’s important is the trust between us, and that’s broken," I told him. He apologized.

"Forget the apology, that’s not it. Don’t you trust yourself? Don’t you have confidence in yourself? You listened, you studied, and I know you prepared for the exam, so why would you do something like this?"
"I swear I prepared a lot," he said. "But I didn’t believe in myself at all that I could succeed."

I could have punished him, I could have disqualified his exam, said I was calling his parents, given him a failing grade. I then remembered the best lesson I ever learned about education, the formative and beautiful sentence: "As a teacher and a parent, never forget that you were once a child too." It was a great lesson because I learned that punishments, in certain cases, destroy opportunities for education. So I took the opportunity with both hands and decided on something different.

I told him that I was sorry he didn’t believe in himself, because that’s the real test. Not the Middle Ages, but his trust and confidence. "You’re going to enter the classroom now, sit in front of the exam, and take it trusting yourself, without any aids and without cheating."

He entered the classroom. Sat down, wrote a lot, and did it like a pro. I checked his exam, and it was amazing. Four pages, smart answers, no cheat notes, nothing. I told myself I had to seize the moment, so I shared everything that happened with the class. That trust is above all, more than any grade, that it’s better to fail honestly than to succeed by cheating, and that the exam is about their belief in themselves.

Look, the fact is, even without all those cheat notes, he succeeded in the exam because he believed in himself and worked hard. All he needed was to trust himself. When I saw him filled with confidence at the end of the lesson, I understood, in practice, the most important lesson I learned then: that there are cases where punishments destroy educational opportunities, and that seeing the pain and difficulty of the other side is the most impprtant thing to do. "

Edited Monday at 08:01 PM by Nivsch

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[zazen]

Odd how even the Swedish school shooting was barely covered by the usual right wing pundits and X accounts. Had these incidents been by a brown man they’d be raving about immigration.