Grandma's army

Every year, the residents in the   senior residence complex where I live, donate money for a different grassroots non-profit organization. This year, the iniators of this yearly project have decided to support an organization called OneFamily.   The list of deaths from Arab terrorist attacks in Israel is never ending. Since 1920 (many years before the “occupation”) up to the year 2018, 3,831 fatalities have been recorded in Israel! The list does not include the thousands who were injured, many very severely.    Numbers cannot do justice to each individual family of victims of terrorism – all of whom have to cope with their unbearable loss, pain and helplessness. My daughter, Simcha Rivlin, wrote: “Exactly 15 years ago, 12/1/05, my husband Gideon Rivlin was killed from a   roadside bomb which was planted there by terrorists in Gush Katif. I  was left with five children: Nir, Yaara, Omer, Assaf and Gilead in Ganei Tal , one of the small agricultural villages (moshavim