Lemon Tree

 

"Abu-Sharif recalls consoling a passenger with, "Don't worry, it's only a hijak. Nobody will be hurt," as another PFLP operative began attaching plastic explosives to the seats. "You expect me to be relaxed?" the astonished man shouted at Abu-Sharif. "Look at that guy!..."

"Moshe and Solia were part of a history unlike any other in Europe. They knew that, like nearly everyone else in the railway station, they were lucky just to be alive. Solia believed that were it not for the decency of so many Gentiles in Bulgaria-and particularly of a handful of people who chose to act in 1943-she and Moshe could have been on a train to Treblinka, not waiting to board a ship with their infant daughter for a new life in the Jewish state."   

"Anyone who walks four cubits (about six feet) in the land of Israel is certain of receiving a place in the world to come." 

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What are you doing? I respond with, "I'm going to Israel. Bye."