This article engages with both the experience and construction of victimhood in Israel, moving between different locations and events, and comparing the public, or grand narrative with individual accounts. The main issues on which the article focuses are the relationships between victims and perpetrators, and between past and present, inquiring as to the political and moral consequences of forming these categories and identities, and of extrapolating from the past to the present. Both of those issues are discussed in relation to one another, in questioning how this extrapolation constitutes victimhood-related identities, and how those categories are formulated via the movement between past and present. Drawing on the notions of “storytelling”, the “short story”, and the “merographic connection”, the article offers a new perspective on accommodating tensions and moral paradoxes between and within narratives, as well as between past and present. These notions also provide the textual templates which form the basis of this article.