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and trouble began brewing in the south. Ben-

scrambling our jets and shooting down six

but I couldn’t defuse it either. I did manage to get

then at Gonn. But he had clearly got the message. “The

“is it possible that the fluid in that bottle is spontaneously

it was clear that he was about to cancel the

with enough energy to activate the fuse in the detonator.”

a few blocks back from the Mediterranean. Dinner was less

leading its first clandestine operation and receiving a citation

media and the arts. The same confidence which

would give the children of the kibbutzim a disproportionate place in

three years older than Nili. I had the inbred confidence

Moshe – she was more a friend than a girlfriend.

I’d walked almost every inch of the land – in short

with as much composure as I could muster

I invented a series of excuses to return to the

almost like a musical composition. It was her

I asked a girl sitting at a desk near the entrance. She looked up with a

something I’d managed to overlook amid the demands

to register my formal change of status from a mere