GOOD NEWS ISRAEL: RESTORE THE PRIDE.
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This column is here to inspire pride, spark hope and encourage you to contribute however you can to Israel’s continued success.
What We Saw on Our Wartime Visit: Israelis are Resilient, Bearing Up, and Back What Needs To Be Done
What area activists Don and Randye Sable saw on their wartime visit to children and grandchildren in Israel is a source of inspiration and pride for us all. This week we quote another excerpt from their moving op-ed.
This week we’re pleased to post under “Israel For Us Grassroots” Don Sable’s moving account of his and Randye’s wartime visit to Israel to be with their son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren. Unity of our people in Israel and Diaspora has never been more needed, and families with generations in both form the core, of which we’re all part.
This week Israel commemorated its Memorial Day and Independence Day back-to-back. So this week we quote Charles Krauthammer and Arlene Kushner explaining these commemorations’ significance.
With a majority of Democratic U.S. Senators voting this week to bar arms’ sales to Israel, the only nation joining the U.S. in fighting Iran’s seeking the Bomb, blockading Hormuz and sponsoring terror especially though not exclusively against Jews, it’s a source of pride to us U.S. Jews that the U.S. military and President regard Israel’s joinder appreciatively.
With America’s Artemis 2 Mission’s great success this week, let’s take a look at an Israeli woman breaking barriers in that nation’s space program, and her influence on girls getting involved in space projects.
Despite wars raging on multiple fronts for more than two years, Israelis rank 8th in World Happiness Report, with young Israelis ranking their in their category. A happiness researcher cites Israelis’ societal strengths.
Of all the accounts by Israelis of what their lives are like these days with cluster bombs and other deadly weapons relentlessly coming at them from Iran and Hezbollah, Arlene Kushner’s post this week captures her countrymen’s courage and resilience exceptionally movingly. Let this further inspire our pride in our people’s homeland and its people.
What’s it like these days to be an Israeli father, one of whose sons has just been recalled for Army service, for the fifth time over the past year? This short statement captures his pride – in his family, his country and its leaders, his people.
We like to think of “Israel Good News: Restore the Pride” in heartwarming terms of medical breakthroughs, aiding victims of natural disasters, etc. But surrounded by endlessly threatening enemies as it is, Pride in our people’s homeland includes Power to confront threats of terrorism and even nuclear bombings. The launching of U.S. and Israel’s Iran strikes demonstrated unprecedented coordinated military prowess against the world’s chief sponsor of terrorism’s proximity to attaining nuclear bombs and delivery means.
A journalist visits Israel in search of miracles explaining Israel’s survival against overwhelming odds in its Wars of 1948, 1967 and 1973, and other events. He interviews war heroes Avigdor Kahalani, Yoram Zamush, 1948 vets and others, spy Shula Cohen, troops caught in a minefield when a wind comes and blows away the sands, exposing the mines, and more. This week’s post focuses on the documentary’s look at Israel’s War of Independence, which began with it hopelessly outmanned and out-armed, yet it threw back the invaders.
Despite war and security threats, Israel ranked eighth in the 2025 World Happiness Index. Blogger Bob (along with Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy in a Tablet article) suggests why this is.
Israeli youth serve in the Israel Defense Force with pride. The new Douglas Unit enables young men and women with disabilities to be part.
Israel strives mightily to recover hostages, living and dead. Ran Gvili was killed Oct. 7 trying to save Israelis and his body was taken to Gaza. An Israeli search of four cemeteries in Gaza by forensic experts and dentists recovered his remains. He’s the last to come home. Officials finally removed the yellow ribbons from their lapels.
The U.S. this week issued its National Defense Strategies document for 2026, in which it called Israel a “model ally” able to defend itself and strengthening regional stability.
