by Daphna Horowitz | May 14, 2024 | New Normal, Personal Mastery, Purpose, Relationships
One minute silence. The whole country stops what they’re doing. Wherever we are – at home, on the highway, walking in the street, sitting in a meeting – we all stop, stand up and become silent for a minute. Yesterday was Memorial Day in Israel. A day to remember all...
by Daphna Horowitz | Mar 5, 2024 | Mentoring, New Normal, Purpose, Relationships
Since the last time I wrote my war diaries on Day 115, more than a month has passed and the reality of living life in a war continues. Today marks 150 days, 134 hostages. We’re closing on 5 months now. It’s a staggering reality, one I’ve come to term as...
by Daphna Horowitz | Jan 8, 2024 | Learning, Mastery, New Normal
Yesterday I went on a trip to the South of Israel, where the October 7 attack took place. It was January 7, exactly 3 months after. We were a group who went to bear witness to the atrocities and show that we care, that we see the people who are so painfully impacted...
by Daphna Horowitz | Dec 13, 2023 | New Normal, Personal Mastery
This piece of writing is not mine. It expresses so beautifully what life is like in Israel at the moment and I wanted to share it further. Credit goes to Chana Wurtzel who wrote it. IF YOU LIVE HERE, YOU KNOW… If you live here, you know what it is to wake up...
by Daphna Horowitz | Dec 1, 2023 | New Normal
Here we are, 2 months into the war, as we navigated through a week that’s been an emotional rollercoaster.The thing we most wanted, what we were waiting and praying for, was coming to fruition. Our hostages came home.Every day, for 7 days, we saw a batch of...
by Daphna Horowitz | Nov 22, 2023 | Learning, New Normal, Purpose, Relationships
The last time I wrote an entry for my war diaries was day 32. I just haven’t been able to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) and write my thoughts for the last 2 weeks. We’re on day 45 – whoever thought it would be this long and still, no end...
by Daphna Horowitz | Nov 7, 2023 | Learning, New Normal, Purpose
In the Jewish tradition, 30 days of mourning is a significant milestone in the mourning cycle after losing a loved one. It’s called Shloshim and counting from the massacre of October 7th, that day is today. As you work through the stages of grief – denial,...
by Daphna Horowitz | Oct 31, 2023 | New Normal, Relationships, Why
Last night we had a sliver of light in the darkness. We rejoiced at the brave rescue of one of the hostages, Ori Megidish, 19 years old, from a Gaza tunnel, by the IDF. A young girl who was taken, is now back with her family, back home. Together with the 4 hostages...
by Daphna Horowitz | Oct 24, 2023 | New Normal, Relationships, Why
How are you? For the last 17 days, the most normal of questions, the question that usually just rolls off our tongue without thinking, has become the hardest question to answer. When someone asks me, How are you? I pause and think. I don’t know how to answer the...
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