I'll take the time and post an update.

there's another round happening right now. this time it's sort of a war. I don't know personally any of the victims, but I know a few who did know them. I've heard the alarms last Saturday morning, and was called to service in noon. now I'm home for 24 hours after things are more clear. I'm deployed in a relatively safe zone, and my function there is also mostly in-base and I'm not expected to interact with arab population. but it's still military service, and there's always danger.

Nobody knows what the future will look like, this might become a long conflict which will change how the Israeli-Palestinian situation looks in a fundamental way (maybe undoing the 2005 changes), and it will defiantly change the Israeli society.