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Probably one of the last things you want to hear an Israeli say is the ostensibly comforting phrase “yihye beseder” (yee-he-YE be-SE-der, meaning “It’ll be all right”). Like its cousin, “ein ma la’asot” (“There’s nothing to be done”), it connotes a certain fatalism that can indicate the speaker has no intention of doing anything about your problem, which is particularly frustrating when the...
