Word: nadav
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter how well you work. Nadav can humiliate you. He does everything at top speed, darting from one task to another with furious energy. He guides precarious burdens effortlessly to rest with an instantaneous calculation of his cool black eves. His fingers are smooth, agile...
Coordination, the key to combat flying, has made him an officer and instructor, and from time to time, probably saved his life. For the first three days of the Six Day War, Nadav criss-crossed the blue skies over Sinai, raking Egyptian planes and armor with his French Super Mystere jet. Then, with Israeli troops on the Suez, he arced north to pound the Syrian heights opposite Ayeleth...
...planes sit there, and you go boom-boom--like practice. The air war is very clean, you know. There are no bodies. Sometimes you see soldiers running, no more. In Syria it was more difficult--lots of anti-air-craft." In Syria it was also less anti-septic, for Nadav at least. Returning from runs, he flew through the smoke spiraling off of Ayeleth's burning fields and storage bins. "I thought the whole kibbutz was burning," recalls Nadav. "It made me very mad. Then I wanted to kill them...
...works, Nadav makes effortless and intelligent conversation. His English grammar is only fair, but the range of his vocabulary is astounding. ("I learned to speak from foreigners," says Nadav. "From foreign girls," chimes in a friend, and Nadav only smiles...
Though best in math during his school years. Nadav will talk about almost anything. "The Americans are good but naive," he says. "In Vietnam, they try to help people but they don't know how." He has just read a book on Mongolia, which he liked very much, and offers to lend it out. He does not hate the Arabs--except for the Syrians--or laugh at their ludicrous performance in the air. How can you fix or fly a plane, he queries, when you never see a machine most of your life...