Israeli Nardi Mizrahi Vanderlest is a mother of four children. There are currently two on the front, a son in southern Gaza and a daughter in the West Bank. Become a messenger of peace in times of war.
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“They protect and defend Israel. We are under attack from all sides. How do you expect me, as a mother, to be able to sleep well and eat well? “It’s very, very difficult,” she admitted in an interview Quebec morning.
“I am sad and angry at the same time to know that so many people are happy to know what happened to us. The situation is complicated,” Ms. Mizrahi-Vanderlest said.
The mother wants to send a message of love, tolerance and peace. “I mean that even if you are different in terms of religion or in the way you think, you don’t have to say that you are better than anyone else. We should try to live together, that is the most important thing. And that is the role of mothers as well to raise their children in this way.” “I raised my four children to respect others and differences,” says Nardi Mizrahi-Vanderlest.
She would like to recall that her country “is the only democracy in the Middle East.” “In Israel I can love whoever I want, girl or boy, I can wear shorts, I can say what I want, I can believe what I want. We must never forget that because we are hated everywhere for the wrong reasons and this is what saddens me,” the woman says. Mizrahi Vanderelst.
“I want to convey this message instead of engaging in political debate and war,” she breathes.
*** Watch the full interview with Nardi Mizrahi Vanderlest in the video above
