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The children

Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre has traumatized and transformed Israeli society.

Nov. 26, 2023
Dry Bones

The children

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Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
Dry Bones
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Political cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., made aliyah to Israel in 1971 and began drawing “Dry Bones” in January 1973. The internationally syndicated, award-winning cartoons ran in The Jerusalem Post for 50 years. They were reprinted in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME and other mainstream media publications. The “Dry Bones” story has been covered by CBS, CNN and Forbes, among other outlets. He was a member of America’s National Cartoonists Society and the Israeli Cartoonists Society. Kirschen died at 87 on April 14, 2025.

Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre has traumatized and transformed Israeli society. We don’t need to guess what the effect will be on our kids.

They may grow up to be like hardened Holocaust survivors, many of whom we never fully understood.

But the next generation, too, will build a stronger Israel.

Israel 2.0.

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