Word: avigail
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...beard with dirty fingers and pulling his big, knitted yarmulke down to his eyes. Yair eats a slice of barbecued lamb with his hands. Elisha points through the silent darkness to the lights of nearby Israeli settlements and tells the story of King David's meeting with his wife Avigail in the valley below. The hilltop, settled by a few youngsters in defiance of the Israeli government, bears the name of this woman of the Old Testament...
...young men in Avigail weren't always outside the mainstream. Most were in combat units of the Israeli army during their compulsory military service. As they recount their army days, they tell of operations carried out for Israel's special forces, Egoz and Shimshon, units with names that inspire admiration among almost all Israelis. Israel's politics--not they--have moved away from the ideals they fought for, the men argue. "We're not interested in protesting Sharon's plan," says Yair. "We're going to sabotage...
Late in the night at Avigail, Yehoshafat runs through a list of erev rav that ranges from Jewish kapos, who aided the Nazis during the Holocaust, to an Israeli-Palestinian coexistence group. "Esau always wants to hurt Jacob," he says, referring to the biblical enmity between the wicked son of Isaac and his good brother, whom God renamed Israel and made father to the Jews. "We had erev rav 5,000 years ago, and we have them today." In these dusty hills, the Old Testament is closer to Yehoshafat and his friends than the government in Jerusalem 25 miles away...