With tears in his eyes, the Israeli actor reveals: “Our kibbutz has been evacuated. My sister will come to Italy. My father doesn’t want to leave home”
During the last episode of very truethe program hosted by Silvia Toffanin, Raz Degan shared a touching story about the current situation in Israel following the Hamas attacks, which shocked the whole world. Born and raised in a kibbutz, the Israeli actor and model wanted to shed light on the terrible reality his people are facing. During the interview Degan expressed deep concern about the current events, defining them horrible days not just for Israel, but for all humanity. “For us in Israel they are nightmare days, since the Holocaust we have never experienced something so serious“ he said. “And see that the gun and the sword are unfortunately stronger than the voice of change, it hurts the soul“.
the father’s obstinacy
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“My father is 80 years old and even though our kibbutz was evacuated, he doesn’t leave the house” Degan said. “He doesn’t want to leave, he says that’s his place. A 22 year old relative of ours hasn’t returned home, a week has already passed and her parents don’t know where she is, whether she is alive or dead. There are so many corpses and you can’t make out the faces, so many have been burned. Every day friends call me to tell me unimaginable atrocities. All this is beyond politics, beyond rights. This is the infernal nightmare of terror“. Then the invective: “Haters gonna hate, blood brings blood, vengeance calls vengeance. There has never been an event of this magnitude since Israel was founded. In the Yom Kippur War there had been a war between soldiers. But This is about terrorism. Raped women, elderly Holocaust survivors who have now been kidnapped at 90, 95 years old, dragged on the ground like animals, beaten, thrown back into a nightmare that they have tried to forget all their lives.”
sister in Italy
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Raz Degan’s half-sister, the actor reveals to Silvia Toffanin, has 4 children and is joining him in Italy. Although find a flight in these chaotic days it has been very complicated. “Men want to stay there, they don’t want to abandon their country” Degan explains.
childhood on the kibbutz
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“It’s like a great campsite” Degan said transportingly. “A campsite where several families live who work together and share what they produce. Our kibbutz is located in the north, on the border between Syria and Lebanon. They have it founded my grandparents, who were Holocaust survivors. During my childhood I was often locked in the bunker, because there were so many wars in the North. I remember the first time I heard the whistle of a bomb, you don’t know where it’s coming from and then the explosion is terrible.” “At what age did you leave Israel?” Silvia Toffanin asks him. After compulsory military service, which in Israel lasts 3 years, “I left at 21. I wanted to see different traditions and cultures, I traveled a lot for this” he replied. “I wanted to have direct experience and I understood that behind the differences everyone has the same desire to raise their children in peace and love. I cannot understand how terrorists can subjugate and crush entire populations in the name of fanaticism.”
the kids at the rave
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“The amount of people affected is unimaginable. The kids who had gathered on Friday for a peace celebration they were massacred” concluded Degan. “Entire families have been destroyed because they took the car at the wrong time, normal people like us decapitated or burned alive while he was in bed at home. I hope to find a world at peace, but we seem to be experiencing the opposite effect. I’m afraid that the dream of peace will become a memory, a nostalgiasomething they tell us” commented Raz Degan with emotion.
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