The bad news, and the good news, is that we are both. On one hand, we completely trust reciting verses of the Psalms to save us, and on the other hand we don't trust them for a moment and apply for a gun license, because past experience shows that a gun often has a faster effect than the Psalms. The same goes for Joe Biden and his don'ts - which we totally trust, but on the other hand we're looking to buy a portable generator and a small power station for the house because, come on, the old American president probably doesn't scare anyone in Iran anymore.
So, we trust and don't trust at the same time, and this is perhaps the main conclusion from the Israeli search data on Google since October 7. If this conclusion is not acceptable to you, I also have others: For example, that we absolutely do not trust Benjamin Netanyahu to stay here in case everything goes awry - or, on a practical level, when the Iranians launch missiles - and therefore the leading search on the eve of the UAV attack on Israel from Iran is "Wing of Zion," the government aircraft that transports the president and prime minister overseas during international visits. Definitely look it up.
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Give the war a little longer, and Google will also throw up its hands over our searches
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Meanwhile, we don't trust Hamas to release hostages even when it promised to (leading search: "Rafah crossing"), and we don't trust that Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi really crashed in a helicopter and died. But after all these amusing diagnoses, there is something depressing about the current Israeli searches that are trending, and they paint a gloomy picture of a frightened and confused nation, which is ready, at this point, to put their trust in anything: from Eyal Golan's "Am Yisrael Chai" ringtone to the wonder cookies of Rachel from Ofakim. From Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman, to Tali Gottlieb's wondering. We move in our search between the political and the critical (The Hague Tribunal, the horror film of October 7 by the IDF spokesperson's unit, terrorists) and the ridiculous and the nonsensical ("The Song of the Little Bunny" by Gottlieb, " My father Danny Kushmaro", tweet of Netanyahu), and it seems that we cannot find direction and rest. Or ourselves. Or something to hold on to at the end.
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The official airplane of the Israeli Prime Minister “Knaf Zion” or “Wing of Zion”, is seen parked at the Ben Gurion International Airport
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Everything - from existentially threatening to mentally unnecessary - receives the same degree of interest and search. The current age of uncertainty dictates our scattered Google searches: how to lock your safe room door, gas to power your home power, and of course - with a sweeping 96% compared to 4% in favor of taking Cipralex, a medicine used to treat depression, over reciting Psalms.
The best part of all of this is that, as is also true in the very worst of times, there are things that will never change: Russians will be afraid that we are out to get them (in fact, they are looking, in Russian, for side effects of the anti-biotic Ciprofloxacin ), Ophira will be bigger than Barco (television personalities)- by 10%!, someone will release a bad computer game in which you beat the current enemy of Israel ("To beat Nasrallah").
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Rachel Edri held off Hamas terrorists on October 7 with homemade cookies
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And the best part? Look at the wonderful correlation that exists between people who are looking to obtain a firearms license and people who have no idea what the term "Mishlekh Yad" (Herbew term for occupation) means – there was an increase of thousands of percent in the search for " Mishlekh Yad - definition", after this combination of words appeared on the application form for a firearms license.
So, there is really nothing like this nation- Even when he is confused, scared, does not completely master his native language and continues to ask Google questions that, at this point, no one is ready to commit to the correct answer: Why is Bibi tan? Who appointed Herzi Halevi? Who did Ben Gvir disguise himself as?
Give the war a little longer, and Google will also throw up its hands over us.