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the main right-wing militia force before 1948. Lacking the

who had inherited the mantle of Jabotinsky’s Revisionist

Israel’s government would not be in the hands of David

a revolution.” For the first time since the

” I told him. “I knew Yoni. I know Bruria. I do not know you.

the issue would gradually resolve itself. But I

while it would take time for the grief felt by those

and help separate her from Yoni and his legacy. He went so far as

I was encouraging the unwelcome idea that

rambling conversation. He seemed to insinuate that

mixed with the pride they felt at his emergence as a national

I could see that they were still bleeding inside. I am sure that affected

the training and exercises before the fleet of Hercules had

lonely burden of commanding the very fighters who he was

and the sense of mission and of personal fulfillment

” 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