Hello 2026! I'm still figuring out how I feel these days, but last night I came across this post from the artist Zeev Engelmayer, also known as Shoshke, and I wanted to share its translation here:
A first minute of silence.
I was invited to a New Year's Eve party tonight, but I will stay home.
The past year was too noisy. Too many struggles, declarations of complete victories, and too many walls built between us. Tonight at midnight, I will dedicate the first minute of 2026 to silence. A minute of exemplary silence.
I hope that this year will be a year of removing walls, in which we will return to seeing people as people. Let us remember that compassion is a strength. Leadership is not that which knows how to conquer, but that which knows how to listen to pain, no matter what nation or where it came from.
A first minute of silence, for all those whose honor was taken from them. Silence that will ease the pain of the parents of the hostages who returned, that will be a comfort to those who did not return, to those who were harmed in body and mind. May the silence not only be the absence of war, but rather calmness.
Perhaps we will begin the year with one moment of silence, in which we will recognize that we all just want to live, to love, to be human. Equal and beloved.
Tonight at midnight. One minute of silence, for us. 2026. May it be a year of calmness. A year of an open heart. May we know quieter and better days.
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