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CHAPTER III
Hour after hour Gad spoke to me of the blue nights of Palestine, of their calm and serene beauty. You walk out in the evening with a woman, you tell her that she IS beautiful and you love her, and twenty centuries hear what you are saying. But for the English the night holds no beauty. For them every night opens and shuts like a tomb. Every night twoj three, a dozen soldiers are swallowed up by the darkness and never seen again.
Then Gad told me the part he expected to play. I was to give up everything and go with him to join the struggle. The Movement needed fresh recruits aind reinforcements. It nejeded young men who were willmg to offer it their future. The sum of their futures would be the freedom of Israel, the future of Palestine,
It was the first.time that I had heard of any of these things. My parents had not been Zionists. To me Zion was a sacred ideal, a Messianic hope, a prayer, a heartbeat, but not a place on the map or a political slogan, a cause for which men killed and died.
Gad's stones were utterly fascinating. I saw in him a prince of Jewish history, a legendary messenger sent by fate to awaken my imagination, to tell the people whose past was now their religion: Come, come; the future is waiting for you with open arms. From now on you will no longer be humiliated, persecuted, or even_Bitied. You will not be strangers rS- -l-encafnped in an age and a place that are not yours. Come, brothers, come!
Gad stopped talking and went to look out the window at the approaching dawn. The shadows melted away and a pale, prematui-ely weary light the color of stagnant water invaded my small room.
"I accept your offer," I said.
I said it so softly that Gad seemed not to hear. He remained standing by the window and after a moment of silence turned around to say:
"Here is the dawn. In our land it is very different. Here the dawn is gray; in Palestine it is red like fire."
"I accept. Gad," I repeated. . - i "I heard you," he said, | with a smiie the color ofj| the Paris dawn, "You'll be leavmg in three weeks,"
The autumn breeze blow-mg in through the window made me shiver. Three weeks, I reflected, before I plunge into the unknowiiT Perhaps my shiver was caus-: ed not so much by the breeze as by his reflection. I believe that even then unconsciously I knew that at \ the end of the road I was i to travel with Gad, a man was waiting, a man who would be called upon to kill another man, myself.
Radio Jerusalem ... Last-minute news flashes. David, ben Moshes execution will take place at dawn tomorrow. The High Commissioner has issued an appeal for calm. Curfew at ninie o'clock. No one will be allowed on
the streets; I repeat, no one will be allowed on the streets. The army has orders to shoot at sight ...
The announcer's voice betrayed his emotion. As he said the name David ben Moshe there must have been tears in his eyes.
All over the world the yoiing Jewish fighter was the hero of the day^AU the wartime resistance movements of Europe held rallies in front of the British embassies; the chief rabbis of the capital cities sent a joint petition to His Majesty the king. Their telegram—with some thirty signatures it the bottom—ran: "Do not hang a young man whose only cnrne is fidelity to his ideal." A Jewish delegation was received at the White House and the President promised to intercede. That day the heart of humanity was one \vith that of David ben Moshe.
It was eight o'clock in the evening and completely dark. Gad switched on the light. Outside the child was still crying.
"The dirty dogs," said Gad; "they're going to hang him."
His face and hands were red and perspiring. He paced up and down the room, lighting one cigarette after another, only to throw each one away.
'They're going to hang him," he repeated. "The bastards !"
The news broadcast came to an end and a program of choral singing followed. I started to turn the radio off but Gad held me back.
"It's a quarter past eight," he said. "See if you can get our station."
I was too nervous to turn the dial. "I'll find it," said Gad. The broadcast had just ^egun. The announcer was a "girl with a resonant, grave voice familiar to every one of us. Every evening at this hour men, women, and
children paused in their work or play to listen to the vibrant, mysterious voice ivhich always began with the same eight words: You are listening to the Voice of Freedom ....
The Jews of Palestine loved this girl or young woman without knowing who she was. The English would have given anything to lay hands upon her. In their eyes she was as dangerous as the Old Man; she too was a part of the Legend. Only a very few people, no more than five, knew her identity, and Gad and I were among them. Her name was liana; she and Gad were in love and I was a friend to both of them. Their love was an essential part of my life. I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in Its wake.
You are listening to the Voice of Freedom, liana repeated.
Gad's dark face quivered. He was bent almost double over the radio, as if he wanted to touch with his hands and eyes the clear, deeply moving voice of liana, which tonight was his voice and mine and that of the whole country.
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DEATH OF RABBI PEDATZUR
JERUSALEM, (JCNS) — The death occurred last week in Tel Aviv of Rabbi Moshe Pedatzur, the former Mayor of. Safed and the town's communal rabbi.
Rabbi Pedatzur, who was born in Safed 73 years ago, played an important part in organising the defence of Safed during Israel's war of independence.
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