Sami had asked when she wanted him, and she’d hesitated and then said, “Come at three.” “Ora,” he’d said, “maybe we should leave earlier, ’cause traffic will be a mess.” That was his only acknowledgment of the day’s madness, but even then she didn’t get it and just said there was no way she could leave before three. Now she remembers that for some reason she hadn’t given him any details or explained the purpose of the trip, the way she usually did. At seven that morning she had called Sami and asked him to come pick her up for a long drive to the Gilboa region. Only then did she realize what she’d done. For several long minutes he has looked neither at her nor at Ofer.Īs soon as Ofer sat down in the cab, he let out an angry breath and flashed a look that said: Not the smartest idea, Mom, asking this particular driver to come along on a trip like this. His hand rests on the Mercedes’s gear shift and his thick neck does not move. THE CONVOY twists along, a stammering band of civilian cars, jeeps, military ambulances, tanks, and huge bulldozers on the backs of transporters.
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