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who allow me the freedom to
ask these questions. I
recognise that as soon as
these questions arise so too
can they evaporate, or not…
but for now, I am on board for
the ride though, wherever I
end up.

So going into my third year in
this crazy country and well
into my 25th on this even crazier planet I am
hoping that in the coming 12 months I succeed in
listening to myself, affirming new things and
maybe reaffirming old ones. Maybe after that or
better yet, throughout, I might be able to balance
all that with my political ideological pursuits.

The funny thing is that although the choice to
make chaluztik aliyah and pursue a life of
hagshama here in Israel is now the cause of all the
big dilemmas in my life, and although I am not
sure if it is going to be something that I keep
choosing forever, the structures of shituf and
moratorium that exist in Dror Yisrael are also the
things that enable me to actively engage in those
questions effectively in the first place. Even in the
hard times I am still guided by codes of dialogue
that I learned in the youth movement and am held
up by the people around me that choose to take
responsibility for me.