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"Don’t You Move Your Fucking Hand, Or I’ll Shoot You” – Somalia Part 3
SOMALIA PART 3 U.S Marines securing the position in the Mogadishu port hours after landing there from the sea. December 1992 Reporting...

Hanani Rapoport
Sep 13, 20235 min read
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Happy Birthday Mogadishu! Somalia 1992 Part 2
Reporting from Mogadishu's Heart of Darkness Part 2 Getting my haircut in Tel-Aviv took me all the way to one of the most dangerous...

Hanani Rapoport
Sep 4, 20237 min read
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"War of Brothers" - Read Before Use
Brothers at War - illustration Credit: Zohar / Kaplan Force AI The frequent use of the term "civil war" or "fraternal war" in Israel in...

Hanani Rapoport
Aug 30, 20235 min read
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Journey into the Abyss: Reporting from Mogadishu's Heart of Darkness
Part 1 First night in Mogadishu, November 1992. As the small single engine Cessna 208 Caravan descended towards the war-torn heart of...

Hanani Rapoport
Aug 30, 202310 min read
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And Suddenly Someone Said To Me: Enough With The Adventures
My Press Cards collection of 40 years Throughout my 40 years of work for the international media – starting as an apprentice and a...

Hanani Rapoport
Jun 1, 20234 min read
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How Did I Find My Perished Family I Never Knew I Had...
On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day last year, Tali, my sister, found a list of our relatives murdered during World War II on...

Hanani Rapoport
Apr 19, 20235 min read
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And The Ship Sails On...
This post was first published in Hebrew on the “Zman-Israel” website at the following link: https://www.zman.co.il/364376/ On April 17,...

Hanani Rapoport
Jan 14, 20236 min read
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Yes Dad - Now I Understand You..
[ Palestine British Army. August 1943] My father graduated from the Balfour Reali Gymnasium in Tel Aviv in the summer of 1942 and hurried...

Hanani Rapoport
Jan 2, 20238 min read
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First Candle of Hanukkah - 1942
15/12/2022 My father graduated from the Gymnasium in Tel Aviv and hastened to enlist in the British army of Her Majesty. My father wanted...

Hanani Rapoport
Dec 31, 20225 min read
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What The Hell I Was Doing In Khartoum And What Is Leonard Cohen Has To Do With It
December 1992 December 1992. I take off from Mogadishu to Nairobi and from there to London, after ten days of journalistic assignment in...

Hanani Rapoport
May 20, 202215 min read
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“Don't You Move Your Fucking Hand, Or I'll Shoot You”
Somalia - December 1992 This was neither a joke nor a line from a Hollywood Western movie. My nine years in the Israeli Army didn't...

Hanani Rapoport
Apr 22, 202210 min read
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First night in Mogadishu, November 1992
We arrived in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, by chance ... In Noah's barbershop in Herzliya, in the basket of old newspapers between...

Hanani Rapoport
Apr 1, 20229 min read
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A Journey in Time Between Tel Aviv, Prague & Timisoara
My story begins on a Saturday night in Tel Aviv on September 25, 1982, when a large crowd of hundreds of thousands of Israeli "leftists"...

Hanani Rapoport
Jan 15, 202212 min read
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First Night in Zagreb - A City at War
We arrive in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, in the early evening, with the last light of another summer day in July 1991. We arrived...

Hanani Rapoport
Jan 6, 20227 min read
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