Omri HerzogJun 7, 2026 2:53 am IDTJun 7, 2026 2:53 am IDTI've been looking at pictures of Hersh Goldberg-Polin online. I searched for them to accompany the words of his mother, Rachel, who describes him at the beginning of her book: his shoulders, palms, nostrils, eyes, eyelashes. His Israeli shoe size was 46. He tried, unsuccessfully, to grow a thick beard. His eyes always looked tired. His eyebrows sprouted wildly in every direction. ICYMIFar-right Israeli Ministers Join Thousands at Israel Day Parade in New York'We Were Ordered to Kill': The 1967 Nakba That Israelis Don't Know About'Israel Is Unstoppable, We Need Other Countries to Get Us Out of This''Fucking Crazy': Trump Lashes Out at Netanyahu Over Lebanon, Report SaysThe Paradigm That Led to Oct. 7 Didn't Collapse, It Was Fiction From the StartManufactured Nostalgia for Lebanon's Beaufort Masks a Strategic Failure
Time is not a friend: Pain is everywhere in Rachel Goldberg-Polin's memoir
Omri HerzogJun 7, 2026 2:53 am IDTJun 7, 2026 2:53 am IDTI've been looking at pictures of Hersh Goldberg-Polin online. I searched for them to accompany the words of his mother, Rachel, who describes him at the beginning of her book: his shoulders, palms, nostrils, eyes, eyelashes. His Israeli shoe size was 46. He tried, unsuccessfully, to grow a thick beard. His eyes always looked tired. His eyebrows sprouted wildly in every direction. ICYMIFar-right Israeli Ministers Join Thousands at Israel Day Parade in New York'We Were Ordered to Kill': The 1967 Nakba That Israelis Don't Know About'Israel Is Unstoppable, We Need Other Countries to Get Us Out of This''Fucking Crazy': Trump Lashes Out at Netanyahu Over Lebanon, Report SaysThe Paradigm That Led to Oct. 7 Didn't Collapse, It Was Fiction From the StartManufactured Nostalgia for Lebanon's Beaufort Masks a Strategic Failure
