Every indexed document

” I said. I’d known people who were given the gift of a long life but

and said it was impossible not to think about the meaning of

000-year-old volume known as Pirkei Avot

and to whatever comes after. The quotation I chose –

an extraordinary fighter and officer. But also a man sometimes

would expect me to say. Not only was Yoni being mourned across

I also spent time working out how to square what I

Yoni was hit. He’d been shot from the control tower. I

she went downstairs. She told Bruria what

Nava told me she’d waited until daybreak

but that she needed to make sure Bruria heard the news from a

so I used the landline in the airport director’s

almost as if there was still a spark of life inside him.

covered with a blanket. I peeled it back.

who had been with us at the Chinese Farm. Both were obviously torn

with Yoni leading the sayeret and me in the kirya

and he asked me if there were other flats in

reading and living as a more “normal” family man.

or a novel or poetry. He always struggled

he’d taken command of a tank battalion in the north left