October 2023A few days after the Simchat Torah massacre, Professor Yuval Albash announced the publication of the article 'We will always have Bari." I read a small excerpt from the article on the special broadcast I did about the war and what to do and not to do economically and in general. Record the same broadcast hereI received very good feedback on this broadcast, and if you haven't seen it, other viewers recommend it. With Yuval Alshan's consent, I created a video where I read his entire column and added a few words of my own: I want to dedicate the video and the email to two people:I had a consultation at the end of August. Tom Goodow and his partner Limor Havdala. The meeting with them was so pleasant and good. Tom shared that during the Corona period his business was severely impacted, and he became an employee at a nursery. He gave me advice about plants that would be good to diversify my garden with. We talked about the house they intend to build and other things. The title of our conversation was a consultation meeting, but I really wished it would continue on and on. Our relationship was supposed to be a longer one, throughout taking out the mortgage and building the house they planned to build. On the terrible Shabbat of Simchat Torah, Limor and Tom entered the safe room in the house they rented in Kibbutz Kissufim with their children. At some point, the terrorists managed to murder Tom, may his memory be blessed, inside the safe room, and Limor remained locked in with the children for 25 hours. In the end, after no help arrived, Limor decided to escape with the children, and they managed to get into a car and leave safely. I have no doubt that if Tom influenced Eli after a two-hour conversation, then over fifty-two years of his life, he influenced much wider circles. May his memory be greatly blessed. That Shabbat, retired Major General Yossi Bachar woke up in his home in Bari to the sound of missiles and gunfire. I knew Yossi when I was a corporal and he was a young lieutenant, commander of the engineering company in the Paratroopers Brigade. Yossi commanded the Kaokba outpost in the security zone in Lebanon. The outpost had a paratrooper company and two tank crews, one of which I belonged to as a soldier with less than a year in the army. One night when there was no ambush, I was on guard duty at the outpost. As befitting a young soldier, I got the nightmare shift – 2 to 3 in the morning. Midway through my shift, I felt a heavy hand placed on my shoulder. Since I hadn't heard anyone approaching, I realized I probably wasn't at my peak alertness (to put it mildly) and started calculating how many more days I wouldn't be able to shower at home (there was a water rationing at the outpost). When I turned around, I saw Yossi, the outpost commander, with a full vest and helmet on, and he said, "Tanker, go to bed, I think you need it. I'll take your post." I didn't hear any other comment from him. And a 33-year leap forward, to Barry on 10/7/2023, Yossi wakes up as mentioned and realizes something bad is happening. He grabs a weapon but realizes he doesn't have much ammunition and perhaps understands he's not running as fast as he used to. He does what he did in ambushes in Lebanon: he takes cover behind a corner, conceals himself, and begins to snipe. 15 terrorists became intimately acquainted with Yossi's accurate bullets. He finished the day of battle unharmed. "Whoever saves one life…" In the days following the battle, Yossi participated in the funeral of his mother, who was murdered in Be'eri, and from there continued to further reserve duty. To good and peaceful days. Remember, with people like Tom, may he rest in peace, Limor, Yossi And thousands upon thousands of others who are in our nation, "Am Yisrael Chai" is a tremendous understatement. The people of Israel will live and prosper. Pomegranate 054-5232-799