Word: nadav
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, of course, is changed, or almost changed. A trace of the rogue remains in Nadav. On routine postwar patrols, he twice screams over the kibbutz at tree-top level, just to say hello. And despite his open smile, there is something haunting in Nadav's agate eyes: a cool measuring, a cruelty, perhaps a ruthlessness. It is well disguised, but you feel better with him than against...
...skill and efficiency, Israel's air force is rated second only to the United States'. Nadav may not be a hero, but his example will not hurt his service's future prospects. During the summer, three boys from the Kibbutz pass the rigorous admission test and follow Nadav into the air-corp's elite rank. One is Nadav's younger brother...
...Syrians are a different breed. "They are not like human beings," contends Nadav. Early in the Syrian campaign, he relates, but after one of the numerous U.N. agreements on a cease-fire, the Syrians lynched two Israeli pilots on the streets of Damascus, then broadcast the hangings over Damascus T.V. so the Israelis could share the spectacle. In retaliation, the Israeli air force demolished the T.V. station. The Syrians charged a cease-fire violation. In Nadav's eyes, it was only justice...
...Nadav's air-force room-mate is still a Syrian captive and he confesses he is deeply worried. For Nadav, the war is still not over--not until his roommate crosses the border alive. Eventually in late August, he is returned--with the bodies of two other fliers...
There is even a bad-boy-making-good angle to Nadav's story. In his youth, he was wild and unpopular. He would borrow kibbutz tractors and take joy-rides into the fields--a dangerous past-time with Syrian snipers in the hills and both the Lebanese and Syrian borders nearby. And few of his age-group respected him, despite his obvious ability. Rooms would fall quiet and slowly empty when he entered...