"I was privileged. I was privileged. There are those who were not": The moving moment at the start of the school year

After two years of an inconceivable reality, the start of the school year has taken on a different meaning this year for many families. Alongside the excitement, the new backpacks, and the meeting with friends, there are those who cannot help but think of the children and parents who did not get to reach this moment.

In a moving post published this morning (Tuesday), Lishi Lavi-Miran, wife of Omri Miran who was kidnapped to Gaza and released, shared her feelings at the start of the school year, after her son started it alongside his father. "After two years, Roni and Alma started the year with dad Omri," she wrote, alongside a teary emoji.

But alongside the joy, she asked to pause for a moment and remember those from whom the Israeli reality of the last two years has taken the heaviest price. "We will not forget those who sacrificed their lives and souls so that we would be here," she wrote. "We will not forget those we had to say goodbye to."

The routine that seems taken for granted is actually a great privilege.

She also referred to the children for whom the start of the school year looks completely different - because one of their parents will never stand by their side again. "We will not forget the children who are starting the year when mom and/or dad will never be by their side," she wrote.

Later, she described the moment she looked at her children and realized how much the routine that seems taken for granted is actually a great privilege. "From that morning of the event, and with all the inconceivable feelings, I look at them and at myself. Trying to organize the feelings and thoughts," she wrote.

And then she finished with a short sentence that perhaps summarizes more than anything the feeling that accompanies the start of the school year this year:

"I was privileged. I was privileged. There are those who were not."

"A worthy year," she concluded.