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Real People. Real Stories. Unscripted. That’s true courage that plays out daily through the lives of millions of Israelis. From north to south, east to west and everywhere in between, the people of Israel have never known a day of true peace since the rebirth of the Jewish nation less than sixty years ago. Imagine that. Since the end of World War II, a period in which conflicts have been resolved on every continent; tens of millions of refugees have been resettled; devastated economies, cultures and societies have emerged from the ashes of war; hatreds and fears have been replaced by cooperation and hope around the globe; yet tiny Israel – an area comparable in size to the smallest American state - remains surrounded by terrorists and their sponsors who preach destruction, fanaticism, and holy war in the name of hijacked religions, the dreams of children, and entire nations.

IsraelVoices.com was established in the midst of the 2006 summer war that erupted between Israel and Hizballah terrorists, operating with close guidance and support from Iran and Syria. In its first month, the violence claimed over a thousand lives on both sides of Israel’s northern border and deliberately brought thousands of deadly missiles directly into Israeli civilian neighborhoods. While Israelis endured the pain of war as they stood up united against terror, they were shocked by the horror of seeing their nation vilified in the world press day-after-day, night-after-night by reporters, photographers and editors who allowed themselves – wittingly or not – to be directed, misled and callously used by terrorists to misinform global audiences about Israel’s fight for security, freedom and survival.

Their actions are not without consequence. Across the globe, no less than hundreds of millions of people follow the story of modern Israel with great interest and intensity. Many are inspired by religious passions, yearning for the peace of Jerusalem that is central to three main world religions. Many more recognize that as goes Israel, so goes the fate of the free world. Even a cursory glance of a regional map shows a sliver of land surrounded by boundless territories ruled by dictators, monarchs, sheiks, and fanatics for whom the basic values of western society are the very antithesis of their vision for their own nations, peoples and the world. In the battle for the future of the free world, typical Israelis find themselves on the front lines.

These are their stories, in their own words, of their own search for relatively normal lives in a dangerous, hostile region of the world; opportunities for love and work; leisure and liberty; a chance to dream, build, risk and sacrifice; the freedom to live their lives and contribute to a better world.