Hebrew → English transcript

His home, the home of Dudu Azran, took a hard

blow when the missile landed in Dimona,

and his family members were saved.

When he later came to see what was left of his house,

he rescued from the rubble the wedding ring of his wife. This is the photo,

maybe we can see the photo. The photo that moved everyone,

the one where he is holding a beer bottle in one hand and a weapon in the other,

and with the ring. Hello, Dudu Azran.- Hi, hi. How are you? - I am perfectly fine.

How are you? - We are perfectly fine.

Let us just make sure these are the fingers that took the photo,

and right on them the ring, like… a lot of people ask me how it is

that I am both a vagabond and also have fingers like these that do a lot of work.

I will lighten the idea for you a bit.

I really like the angles of Sagiv Assulin on the religious issue and all that,

so if I may kind of start the interview with thanks.

Thanks to the Creator of the World.

Every day we experience wonders upon wonders. Like, the miracle that

happened to us is just a continuation of what we experience as a people.

It is just that people, sometimes it is hard for them To say this thank

you and all that, it’s sometimes sad,

but we’ll move on to the more cheerful part. So thank you,

thank you really to the Creator of the World.

We fully respect that statement and that thanks, and for us it’s not a joke,

for us it’s not a joke. No, no, no, not at all.

Thanks also to my wife, like, my wife Dorit... Wait, wait, wait, now we say...

Usually we say our thank- yous at the end. No, so that’s it,

that’s what I wanted to tell you, that I won’t forget the thank- yous,

so it’s like a movie in reverse,

at the end I’ll forget

and she

will get mad at me. So there you go, you thanked her, nice. Wait, let’s talk...

No, no, but wait, a good Moroccan joke starts with... How does a Moroccan

cookbook start? – Well? So first calm down.

I want my wife to calm down first, otherwise I won’t eat well. Okay, fine,

but let’s take a more serious tone. The house was destroyed?

Yes, that’s the most serious answer I can give you,

it’s yes, kind of, but it doesn’t really matter. Wow, what a feeling.

Where were you?

Dorit and Dor, my eldest son, was with her. He is a soldier in the

reserves at my farm.

So I sent him to rest with his mother on Saturday so he would look after her,

she did not want to come to the farm.

So that is really what saved her and him,

that they went into the bomb shelter.

I am not that obedient, if I had been at home on Saturday, it is likely

you would not be doing this interview. God forbid. Well, now you will be strict.

Wow, is this what is left of the house? These ruins that we are seeing?

Do you see the footage now on your side?

Yes, yes, I see. I see my dog,

Belle, who was also in the bomb shelter and all that. I am the kind of person,

Ayala, who prefers to ask for forgiveness and not ask for permission.

I am that kind of problematic type, yes. Okay. Tell me, and… so when a house

is destroyed, fine, so of course the state will compensate and rebuild everything,

but wedding photos and all kinds of things that are private and personal,

did such precious things

get lost? Or did you manage to salvage anything? I somehow managed to salvage.

I had some kind of ceremony, Dorit She really wanted to…

she cleaned the house for Passover. Another time? Yes, yes.

She is a teacher, she has been a teacher for thirty- one years.

She managed to already organize her closets with summer clothes,

we go down to Eilat every year, the whole family, a villa, the whole family.

So she managed to organize it, so it was easy for

me to take all the things she had organized and just throw them out the windows.

And then one of the guards saw me, he said to me,“ Hey, what are you doing?”

I told him,“ I am doing shutters.”

So he says to me, “ What shutters?

There are no shutters at all.” So he laughed.

So I also took out most of her things that she had managed to organize.

Nice. But beyond that, it really, really is not important. I went out with

some small bag, it is really not important. Thank God… wow, what resilience.

What resilience. No, it is not… it is not resilience, it is… you know,

Sagiv is also a son of Dimona.

What resilience, how is that not resilience? Come on.

A person whose home was destroyed by a rocket, first of

all, thank God, the most important thing is that you are all healthy and unharmed.

That’s above everything.

Look, how does Yoseph Haddad say it? Give me the camera for a second.

Akhla men amirkum, or ala beep petachu, yaani dir balkum. Do not mess with us.

Do not mess with us. How’s the vibe in Dimona? Like, kind of like…