For six months, we Israelis have been living with the shock of the . It has been difficult to purge the implausibility of that day from our minds, to reframe the belief systems it shattered. It has felt impossible to move forward, as long as our soldiers are still fighting and our hostages remain in captivity. But now that we have arrived at , the festival of freedom and spring, with its hope of new beginnings, it seems natural to want to clear the fog, to push back against the inertia. Doing so requires us to take a sober look ...