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The Israel attacked by Hamas on Oct. 7 is not the Israel that we now live in.

Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
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.

The Israel attacked by Hamas on Oct. 7 is not the Israel that we now live in. We have been changed.

The atrocity, the United Nations’ vile reaction to it and the massive and frightening anti-Jewish rallies staged in major cities and on major campuses has been hard to swallow.

And everything is moving so quickly.

The past seems so long ago.

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