Only a small part of the audience is sitting. The majority are strolling around the sides and walking up and down the aisles. Others have found a place on the bars that are fixed to the walls. Others sit ten feet up on the window ledges. And at least twenty are sitting fifteen feet above our heads on the wooden beams that cross the room. They are climbing up and down the ropes in a good imper-sonation of Tarzan. It looks as though they might fall on our heads at any moment. But they are well trained ...
The audience is paying attention. But the people are too active just to listen. So Chanah and Immanuel are acting on the stage, and Joseph, Eytan, and Danni are acting in the hall. And they don’t dis-turb each other. Perfect harmony- a play straight out of the life of the Palmach...
Our many patrols during the time of the ceasefire were good practice. We learned how to use our new weapon: the jeep. We learned how to take advantage of its special feature - speed. We learned how to protect ourselves in moments of danger. And even if some of us were more or less severely wounded in the process, it was worth it. This experience saved our lives more than once after the fighting broke out again.
Battalion base
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The first jeep had already passed the point when I got a message from Reuven, the operator in the last jeep: "Hello Nesher Three, hello Nesher Three, message for Nesher One -1 can see Arabs in the field, Arabs in the field, over!" Our orders were to capture all Arabs we came upon.
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Ovadia turned and raced back. While we are still driving we hear the shots and see three Arabs running away across the open field. The excitement of the chase grips us. We drive into the field to cut off their escape route. Jerucham, the operator of the forward machine gun, fires off a few single shots. But the Arabs keep running.
The jeep begins bumping around. The field is covered in tall