Jun 16, 2025
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This is an appreciation post for Daniel Gold, the inventor of Israel’s life-saving Iron Dome. Thank you!!
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humansofjudaism
This is an appreciation post for Daniel Gold, the inventor of Israel’s life-saving Iron Dome. Thank you!!
Midnight Training: The Beast and the Golden Warrior
The dark woods stretched endlessly under the moonless sky. Towering trees loomed overhead, their gnarled branches twisting unnaturally, as if whispering secrets to the night. A thin mist weaved through the air, curling around Hercules' legs as he moved deeper into the forest. His golden aura flickered faintly around him, illuminating the shadows that seemed to crawl closer.
He was expecting him.
A low, guttural growl echoed from the darkness.
Then, a pair of glowing, amber eyes emerged from the black void between the trees.
Daniel.
Or rather, Fenrir—the beast within him.
The towering wolf-like figure stepped into the dim light of Hercules' aura, his massive, muscular form rippling with raw power. Dark fur covered his body, his claws digging into the earth as his piercing gaze locked onto his teammate. Though his voice carried the weight of a beast, there was still something unmistakably Daniel behind it.
“You’re late.”
Hercules smirked. “Had to make sure no one followed me.” He cracked his knuckles, his golden energy pulsing slightly. “Let’s get to work.”
Daniel wasted no time.
With a burst of speed unnatural for his size, Fenrir lunged at Hercules, claws slicing through the air. Hercules barely had time to sidestep, the wind from the attack rushing past his face. He retaliated instantly, driving a golden-infused fist toward Fenrir’s ribs.
Impact.
A deep thud echoed through the woods as Fenrir staggered back. His growl turned into something that sounded almost like a chuckle.
“Not bad,” the wolf said, shaking off the hit. “You’re holding back.”
Hercules exhaled through his nose, his golden aura intensifying. “I won’t for long.”
The two clashed again.
Fenrir moved like a shadow—fast, brutal, relentless. His claws slashed through the air, but Hercules met him head-on, deflecting each strike with blinding speed. The golden energy around him burned brighter with each movement, his body moving like a force of nature.
The battle was raw, unrestrained. Each strike cracked through the silence of the forest, the earth trembling beneath them. Hercules dodged, countered, and attacked in a rhythm that felt more like instinct than training. The beast inside Daniel pushed harder, and in response, Hercules let more of his golden god side break through.
Then—they stopped.
Both warriors stood in the clearing, breathing heavily, their eyes locked in mutual understanding.
Daniel’s fur slowly receded, his form shifting back to his human self. “That’ll do,” he muttered, rolling his shoulders. “You’re ready.”
Hercules nodded, his golden energy dimming slightly. The Phantom Aces wouldn’t be facing the same Golden Knights in two days. They would be facing warriors.
A chilling breeze cut through the air.
Hercules' body tensed. Daniel stiffened beside him.
From the edge of the forest, standing beneath the twisted shadows of the trees—Maddox.
Only this time, he wasn’t just watching.
His presence was heavier, the air around him warping unnaturally. His Phantom Aces uniform bled into the darkness, as if he was part of it. His smirk was gone, replaced by something colder.
Something inhuman.
“You’re running out of time,” Maddox said, his voice deeper, distorted. “But it won’t matter.”
The shadows around him pulsed—alive.
Then—he vanished.
Hercules and Daniel didn’t move.
The game in two days wasn’t going to be a game anymore.
It was going to be war.
Thanks @danielgold-16 aka Fenrir for the training bro!
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a very neat sketch am I right?
‘My incentive was saving human lives,’ says Brig. Gen. Daniel Gold, who defied the defense establishment to forge ahead with Iron Dome in 2005.
ISRAEL21c asked Gold where he got the nerve to persist with the project in the face of strong criticism back in 2005, when he headed R&D at the Israeli Ministry of Defense and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
“My incentive was saving human lives,” he replies. “I saw what was going on and I said to myself, with all the technology that exists in Israel we must use it to protect human life. We will find a way. It always takes the political and military echelons a long time to think about what they want to do, and in the meantime we started to create a solution.”
Gold had already convened a committee in 2004 to study anti-missile technology options. In August 2005, Israel unilaterally withdrew its citizens from the Gaza Strip and many experts correctly predicted that, instead of bringing peace, the move would invite further aggression from Gaza against Israeli towns near the border. Gold forged ahead with Iron Dome in blatant disregard of a Defense Ministry directive.
He refused to allow the project to get stuck in the wheels of bureaucracy. “I wasn’t sure I could get the funds to go ahead, and I had a private investor lined up just in case, but I didn’t need him in the end,” says Gold, who won the Israel Defense Prize in 2012 for spearheading the Iron Dome project.
Book review: The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
Blurb: If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children—four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness—sneak out to hear their fortunes. The prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality. A sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds. [Goodreads]
Review: As little children in New York City, the Gold children visit a fortune teller who tells them the date they will die. At first, they rub it off as nonsense but each of the four siblings deals with their upcoming date in their own way. Simon escapes the pressure of running the family business by eloping to San Fransisco. He is joined by Klara, who wants to become a magician and is obsessed with the fortune teller's work in her own way. Daniel suffers from guilt because it was he who convinced his siblings to visit her. And at last, there is Varya, who carries the weight of the past with her.
After forgetting to pack a book for my Barcelona holiday, I quickly purchased one at the airport. The tagline is what grabbed me: If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? I think the book beautifully showed the difference between each sibling. Simon's acceptance of his fate, Klara's obsession with defying the odds, Daniel's guilt and the weight Varya carries as the oldest sister. Some of the storylines were predictable but that didn't make the story less gripping. I was especially invested in Simon's story, and his story was probably most predictable. Klara choice was intriguing and left me hungry for answers. What I missed was a little bit of closure after each story.
I wouldn't mark this book as a fantasy novel. There is the fortune teller aspect but apart from the prologue and a little bit of her background story, the story mainly focusses on the Gold siblings. I do wish we got to know more about the fortune teller, though I know it's part of the literature mystery.
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