A Wall of Light - Edeet Ravel [65]
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Dori
Mummy wakes me up before anyone else is awake. It’s still dark outside.
I can’t decide whether to take the belt Gilead gave me. I don’t really need a belt but if I don’t take it Gilead will think I don’t like it. In the end I decide to leave it. It’ll be there for me when I come back.
We go outside to where Daddy is waiting with Sara and David and the suitcases. It’s very quiet on Eldar. Everyone is still sleeping.
A car comes to take us away. It brings us to a noisy bus station. It’s morning now and there are people everywhere. Mummy tells David to stay on a bench with me and not move while she goes to clarify something.
There’s an old Arab woman sitting beside us on the bench begging. She makes sad sounds. David has some money in his pocket that Mummy gave him. He says if I could I’d give her all my money. I say yes yes give her all the money! But David shakes his head and says I can’t. He’s right. Mummy gave him the money to take care of.
Then Mummy comes back and we get up and leave.
Ballistic Protections Solutions
Perhaps the most successful kibbutz industry today is Eldar’s ballistic protections solutions. Iraq proved to be a gold mine for the factory as U. S. demand for the product increased. The company now employs more than a thousand workers in Israel and 300 in plants abroad. Its turnover has increased from NIS 1.5 billion last year to 3 billion this year.
—The International Economist, 2010
Dori
In the evening the plants and bushes have a marvellous smell. The darker it gets the more marvellous the smell gets. The sun is starting to set but it’s not dark yet. Soon the Last Rain will fall. We won’t know for sure it’s the Last Rain until it doesn