There seems to be a new trend that I wasn’t aware of before where a group of people (call it a flash mob if you will) pre-arranges to perform in a public space having secreted itself amongst the general public.
Such an event happened in the Dizengoff Mall in Tel Aviv.
Israeli culture looks to the West and also to the East with its mixture of Ashkenazi and Mizrachi Jews. This time it’s very much European culture being celebrated.
Watch this event on this YouTube video.
In 1996 a Hamas suicide bomber tried to enter Dizengoff. The security was so tight that he decided to detonate outside on public crosswalk/pedestrian crossing. It was the eve of Purim, a festival notorious with the Nazis who liked to hang Jews in revenge for the hanging of Haman and his sons. Hamas are aware of this connection which is not just orthographic.
13 people were killed including several children.
The gap between normal life and sudden death can be a very small one in Israel.
Israelis have a culture of life, Hamas a culture of death.