A terrifying nightmare or an emerging reality?

After walking all night, Honeysuckle's clothes were soaked with sweat and she began to feel the exhaustion and the buds of hunger gnawing at her. She felt like a hunted animal and knew that she could only rest if she found a suitable hiding place.

In a thick grove, not far from the destroyed settlement of Abtalion, she noticed a small cave. She carefully scanned the place and went inside.

Before unloading the backpack from her back, she glanced at her wristwatch. It was six in the morning and dawn was beginning to break. She pulled out a small transistor radio and turned it on. She threw away her cell phone a long time ago, to avoid tracking.

"The Prime Minister, Tamir Ben-Gabra," said the announcer, "last night at the cabinet meeting, passed a decision to postpone the elections scheduled for next month, by five years."

it was expected she thought to herself. Listening to the news was an existential necessity in this crazy time.

emergency

The state of emergency was declared after the Ben-Gabra government announced its decision to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount and build a temple in its place.

"This is our sacred right!" announced the Prime Minister to the applause of his party members.

The announcement, as expected, caused riots in the Muslim world and in a short time Egypt and Jordan canceled the peace agreements and the others the Abraham agreements.

Iran has announced that it has completed the production of the first nuclear bomb. In response to this, Israel came out of the closet and announced that it has a significant stockpile of "Jericho" missiles with nuclear warheads that are currently aimed at Tehran and other cities in Iran.

On the brink of a world war

The Middle East was caught in a state of nuclear balance of terror and the world was on the brink of a third world war.

Yara turned off the radio, sat down on the ground and leaned her back against the stone wall. She listened to the morning sounds. The chirping of the birds and the rustling of the leaves of the surrounding trees somewhat eased the feeling of despair and danger. She allowed herself to close her eyes and savor the rare peace that surrounded her.

Her thoughts wandered to the moments of horror when the settlement where she grew up was declared a hostile settlement, and their citizenship was revoked. They were accused of helping the Arab ghetto residents of the neighboring Kaufk village, who suffered from decrees that made their lives unbearable. The government's policy was to cause Israeli Arabs to voluntarily leave the country. She and her friends knew many of the residents of the village and the friendship and good neighborly relations forged over years suddenly turned into a disaster.

Double-edged sword

News of the kind she had just heard had been common in recent months. At the head of the majority party, Ivy Matityahu, the all-powerful leader of the party, no longer stood. After threats to break up the coalition from the head of the "Hebrew Bomb" party, Tamir Ben-Gabra, formed a majority in the ruling party to remove the iconic chairman.

The meeting of the party faction in which Matityahu was ousted was "secured" by the officers of the Lev unit (trappers of traitors) that Ben-Gabra founded when he served as Minister of National Security. The policemen, armed from head to toe, surrounded the Knesset members who had gathered for their faction's meeting. Ben-Gabra invited himself to speak as a guest and "recommended" to those present to elect Nissan Tartori as chairman. In a vote held immediately after the impeachment, Knesset member Tartori, from the back benches, was elected the new chairman of the majority party.

Crowds took to the streets hoping for a political turnaround that would free the country from the rule of the racist-Christians to whom Matityahu was a friend, in order to survive in power. He didn't realize that that political move would keep him on his throne for only a short time and become a double-edged sword.

The coalition, which in practice was controlled by Ben-Gabra and his members of the "Hebrew Bomb" party, surrendered to his threats and after a short negotiation, a coalition agreement was signed, following which a new government headed by Ben-Gabra was sworn in, even though Tartori was the chairman of the largest party.

Commission of Inquiry

In a short time, Ben Gebra appointed a state commission of inquiry to investigate those responsible for the terrible failure during the Hamas attack and to investigate the reasons for the failure to bring about a complete victory. The committee submitted its conclusions within a few days, placed the blame on Matityahu, the "Father of the Conception" and recommended that he be prosecuted. At the end of a lightning trial, the former prime minister was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Matthew did not spend long in prison. The new president, Nurit Samorak, granted him amnesty, after he pledged to leave Israel together with his family members, and never return to it.

Motorcycle noise

A noise suddenly penetrated the edge of Yara's consciousness. To her dismay, she realized that it was the noise of motorcycle engines. The Heart companies were equipped with heavy motorcycles on which was painted a black Star of David on a red background of the whole of Israel. These police officers were notorious for their brutality and they operated under the protection of the law that gave them almost unlimited powers to act against citizens who were suspected of disloyalty to the government.

Could they have been on her trail? She pulled out her Glock 19 pistol, loaded it with a cartridge and cocked it. It was clear to her that she would rather die than fall into the hands of heart policemen. The noise of the motorbikes gradually died down and Honeywell calmed down. She cautiously approached the cave entrance, peered out and scanned the grove. The danger seems to have passed.

ghost road

Honey loaded the backpack on her back and went outside. She knew it would be dangerous to walk openly on the path, but time was pressing and she had no choice. Her friends in the "Brothers for Freedom" underground were waiting for the forged documents she was carrying with her. When she reached a wooded slope, she switched to running and quickly jumped over the rocks and bushes, while moving east towards the settlement of Yuval, where she would meet her friends.

When she reached the road winding through the trees, she stopped. She must cross it without being detected. The road looks deserted. In recent months, after a curfew was imposed on the surrounding Arab villages, it became a ghost road. Every now and then a police car or Lev motorcycles passed by. If you run fast, she has a chance of not being detected. She peeked through the trees. Everything seems calm.

That's it, now, she said to herself, and jumped. Suddenly she tripped and landed face down on the ground. Her head hit the ground and her world went dark.

Respite only

The swaying of the waves and their sound created a pastoral atmosphere. Yeara and Boaz were sitting on board the Cypriot ship speeding north, bouncing on the waves towards the port of Limassol. Cyprus severed its relations with Israel and gave shelter to Israeli refugees who recently arrived there in large numbers.

"How long have you been following me?" question.

"From the moment you approached the road," he said, "the Lev police were on your mission. They planned to help you get to our hideout. We didn't know what your exact route was but it was clear you would have to cross the road. I ambushed you there. I apologize for having to drop you. Anyway The fake certificates have reached their destination." Yara smiled and leaned back. She knew that these moments were only a respite. The struggle to return Israel to what it was in the past will be difficult and long.

Note: The story presented in the article is a product of the author's imagination. Any resemblance between the plot and the characters in the story, and reality, is strictly coincidental.