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Their sons survived the battlefield but not their wounds. Now these Israeli mothers mourn together.

JL;DR SUMMARY Mothers Tali Drori and Hazel Brief, who previously met in the ICU where their sons were hospitalized, found solace at a retreat for bereaved mothers organized by OneFamily. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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BereavementCommunity SupportIsraeli SoldiersTraumaMotherhoodGriefHealingYogaIsrael PrizeOnefamily

Places mentioned

Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"(JTA) TEL AVIV On the morning she left Jerusalem for a health retreat for bereaved mothers, Taly Drori was surprised to recognize another woman in her rideshare."
Jerusalem, Israel
"(JTA) TEL AVIV On the morning she left Jerusalem for a health retreat for bereaved mothers, Taly Drori was surprised to recognize another woman in her rideshare."
Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Central District, Israel
"The woman was Hazel Brief, the mother of Yona, an American-Israeli soldier who was seriously wounded at Kibbutz Kfar Aza in the opening hours of the Oct. 7 attack."
Northern District, Israel
"The retreat, held in the Gilboa region in northern Israel, offered a different kind of rehabilitation, Brief said, a sacred space where hallway nods gave way to a shared language of grief, as mothers try to rebuild themselves."
Sheba Medical Center, Central District, Israel
"When they passed each other in the ICU hallway of Sheba Medical Center, Brief said, it was often just a nod and a look in the eyes, to say, I got you. I get you."
Hadassah College, Northern District, Israel
"Before the war, Chanan Drori had been studying biotechnology at Hadassah College and was preparing to begin his final research project in a medical research lab."

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