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Not fire and sun—but our blood will redden, Oh Zion, your mountains—
Right after disembarking and finishing my business with the numruk [custom house], I hurried to Petah Tikva. My friends implored…
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David Ben-Gurion
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Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1921
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From his earliest childhood, Dani was happy, sociable, and cooperative. When he was in Tova’s kindergarten, he loved to sit together with the children and sing: “Yulla yulla, what’ll we do without our…
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Amos Kenan
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1952
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Jimmy’s body was taken to Har Tuv, where the doctor confirmed his death, and from Har Tuv it was taken to the morgue in the hospital in the convent of Abu Gosh. He lay there, covered with a gray…
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Menahem Shemi
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1952
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The tale of the Generation of the Land is a sad tale. Reflecting about the source of the depression that the situation in Israel instills in me, I can only ascribe it to expressions of ethnocentric…
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Dan Horowitz
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Jerusalem, Israel
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1993
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Even after the mourning period was over, when the flat was finally empty and my father and I locked the door and were alone together, we hardly talked to one another. Except about the most essential…
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Amos Oz
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Arad, Israel
Date:
2002
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Whatever happened to me on that day seemed to urge me to muster up all my courage and hope. When the ship approached the harbor of Jaffa, many people were there to meet us…
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Berl Katznelson
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1941
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Yesterday morning Roi was murdered. He was lulled by the quiet of the spring morning and did not notice those lying in wait in the furrow.
Today, let us not cast aspersions at the murderers. How can…
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Moshe Dayan
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1956
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My parents had been married for five years when I was born, the second child after my sister, and, as far back as I can remember, I never heard them quarreling. It is possible that they…
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Sasson Somekh
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2003
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It is possible, it is very possible, that here it is impossible to live, but here we must remain, here we must die, sleep…there is no other place…—Y. H. Brenner
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Gershon Shaked
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1983
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I, Shalom, the humble son of the honorable R. Joseph Alsheikh, God keep him and save him, wish to elucidate here the beginning of Yemenite settlement in Jerusalem, may it be built and established…
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Shalom Alsheikh
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1908