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1973: ‘I finished med school, I got married, I was captured by the Egyptian Army’

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Published: 28 September 2017

Last updated: 4 March 2024

WE HAD COFFEE, we smoked, we talked about art, about Tel Aviv, about medical school, about the European basketball championship and Maccabi Tel Aviv. We made plans to have a late brunch in his bunker the next day, so as not to anger the military rabbis sent from Israel to assist the post’s soldiers in prying open the gates of heaven.

The next day, at 2pm, the war broke.

He was dead when they brought him into the bunker. They thought maybe I could bring him back to life. It was the first night of the war and already we had one dead soldier, out of the 42 who were in the post.

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