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About three weeks after the war, Nadav comes home on leave for the first time. For much of his two days at Ayeleth, he is surrounded by groups of young people hanging on his every word. Now 23, Nadav is serving his fifth year in the Israeli air force, the elite of her armed forces and the key to her smashing victory. He seems the kibbutz hero...
Still, by American standards, Nadav has all the credentials. Medium height, wiry, he has a broad face with sharply etched features. His handshake is firm. His smile slashes clean and white above a square chin...
...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...
...Nadav Safran, associate professor of Government suggested the Speak-out. Its purpose, he said, was "to keep the fires of dissent and protest alive in America." It is definitely not to be a teach-in, a debate, or even a discussion, he added, asserting that people already have enough factual information about Vietnam...