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Go to sleep.
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I'm not tired.
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All right.
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Let's make up a story.
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Shall I start?
Yes.
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Once upon a time
there was a village,
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abandoned
by its inhabitants...
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Even the rats left.
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The village stood silent
and abandoned, year after year.
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<i>Rain pounded the streets,</i>
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<i>washing away any human trace.</i>
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<i>When the rats cleared,
birds swarmed over the village.</i>
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<i>There were so many, they
almost blocked out the sky.</i>
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<i>It was night, all day long.</i>
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<i>But then,
from one small house...</i>
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<i>A little boy opened the door.</i>
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<i>He was the only one
left behind.</i>
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<i>My mother was 38 when she died.</i>
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<i>At my age today,
I could be her father.</i>
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<i>Many things have happened
in Jerusalem.</i>
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<i>The city was
destroyed, rebuilt,</i>
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<i>destroyed and rebuilt again.</i>
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<i>Conqueror after conqueror
came, ruled for a while,</i>
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<i>left behind some walls,
some towers,</i>
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<i>some cracks in the stones,</i>
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<i>and then disappeared,</i>
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<i>like the morning mist
down the hillslopes.</i>
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<i>Jerusalem's a black widow,</i>
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<i>who devours her lovers while
they are still inside her.</i>
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We're late.
The boy, Arieh.
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<i>My mother grew up
in the town of Rovno,</i>
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<i>which was then in Poland,
and is now in Ukraine.</i>
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<i>Her childhood there
was made up of words like...</i>
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<i>Chandeliers, servants,</i>
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<i>mystery,</i>
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<i>romantic melancholy...</i>
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<i>As anti-semitism spread
through Europe...</i>
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<i>My mother
dreamed of Israel...</i>
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<i>As the land
of milk and honey,</i>
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<i>where pioneers
made the desert bloom...</i>
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<i>She imagined the pioneer as
a poet, worker, revolutionary,</i>
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<i>born for fields
and battlefields alike,</i>
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<i>but also emotional
and intellectual.</i>
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<i>After my mother
and her family fled Europe,</i>
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<i>back in Poland's
Sosenki forest,</i>
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<i>where my mother
and her sisters</i>
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<i>once loved to pick
mushrooms and berries,</i>
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<i>and sleep
in sleeping bags</i>
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<i>on the riverbank
beneath the stars.</i>
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<i>Germans, Lithuanians,
and Ukrainians,</i>
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<i>opened fire
with machine guns,</i>
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<i>and killed 23,000 Jews
in two days.</i>
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<i>They killed almost everyone
my mother had ever known.</i>
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A million kiddies...
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A million kiddies...
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They killed a million kids
like you!
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Jerusalem, 1945,
under the British mandate
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good day, ma'am.
May I please have Tel Aviv 648?
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<i>Please wait a minute, sir.</i>
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<i>Mr. Nashashibi is on the way.</i>
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Of course I'll wait,
but people are waiting
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on the other end too.
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It's too early, Arieh.
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It will take time
to get a connection.
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What if they connect us
right way,
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and nobody is there yet?
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Hello? Tsvi?
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<i>Speaking.</i>
It's Arieh, from Jerusalem.
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<i>Yes, Arieh. Hello.
This is Tsvi. How are you?</i>
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Everything is fine here.
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We're calling from the pharmacy.
Ask my sister how she is.
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<i>How's it going in Tel Aviv?</i>
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Everything's fine.
Nothing special.
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Life.
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No news is good news.
There's no news here either.
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<i>We'll write and set a time
for the next call.</i>
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<i>Take care of yourselves.</i>
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<i>Be well.</i>
You too.
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<i>They weren't actually sure
if they'd talk again or not.</i>
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<i>There could be riots,
or a pogrom.</i>
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<i>The British could betray us.</i>
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The curfew will start soon.
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Hello.
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Good evening.
Good evening.
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<i>Close the windows!
Close the doors, please.</i>
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They're all gone now.
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It's like Rovno
was just a dream.
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It's here.
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A new book,
hot off the press.
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My first book.
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The novella
in Hebrew literature.
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It's like having a new baby.
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I'll invite your parents.
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"To my brother
and teacher, David,
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whom I lost
in the darkness."
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Who said your uncle
would be
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the only important
academic in the family?
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Well, it's only
my first publication.
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And not the last.
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The borscht is good.
Not bad...
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Almost tasty.
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But even gentile servants
in Jewish homes
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knew that borscht should be
sour and just slightly sweet...
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never sweet and slightly sour.
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Like the Poles who always add
sugar, with no rhyme or reason.
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They even ruin horseradish
by adding jam to it.
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Let's raise a toast
in honor of the new book.
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Lehayim.
Congratulations.
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If you have to choose between
telling a lie or insulting someone,
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choose to be generous.
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I'm allowed to lie?
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Sometimes... yes.
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It's better to be sensitive
than to be honest.
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Come, hold the peg.
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We'll make
our own little kibbutz,
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and by our own efforts, "bring
forth bread from the earth."
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Forward!
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You know, the word
"kadima" means forward.
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But...
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The word actually derives
from the word "kedem,"
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which refers to
"ancient times." Ahh!
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Ah!
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So the Hebrew speaker actually
looks forward to the past.
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Interesting, isn't it?
Yes.
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Are you hurt?
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Arieh?
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Can you recognize me
under all this sweat?
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Watch this.
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Ha!
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That's it!
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<i>My father once told me,</i>
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<i>"Amos, consider the etymological
link between the words...</i>
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<i>Earth, man,</i>
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<i>blood, red, silence."</i>
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You write a new novel
every six months,
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and right away, all the pretty
girls grab you off the shelf
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and take you
straight to bed.
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At least my books
have some fun.
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If you're trying to get girls,
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maybe you should write
romance novels.
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All I'm saying is,
don't rush.
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Ask your sisters.
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Your life is only your own
for a very short time...
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from the time you leave home
to your first pregnancy.
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Even when your child grows up,
you don't get your life back.
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You go from being a mother
to a grandmother.
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But everybody says
that children
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are the best thing
that can happen to you.
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Who's everybody?
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Remember what happened
to our neighbor?
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Ira?
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Steletsky's wife.
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Yes, the alcoholic husband,
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who ran
our father's flour mill.
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<i>He would bet on her
at cards, and lose her,</i>
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<i>each time for one night,</i>
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<i>until finally she left him
for the coachman's son.</i>
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Anton!
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<i>From this hut...</i>
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<i>She could see her children
playing in the distance.</i>
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<i>Then one day, she decided
to go see her daughter.</i>
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<i>As she approached,</i>
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<i>her daughter
called her a whore...</i>
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<i>And refused to speak to her.</i>
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KIra!
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<i>That night, Ira gathered
whatever strength she had left,</i>
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<i>went into the little hut
with a can of petrol...</i>
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<i>And lit a match.</i>
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Our children don't realize
how much they can hurt us.
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I just can't
understand why...
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Why no one warned you?
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What did you expect?
A warning in fine print?
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That you're only food?
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That you're what the chick
eats to grow strong?
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No one warns us,
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because every mother thinks she's
the only one who feels that way...
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and every mother cries
into her pillow, alone at night.
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Except for our mother,
who just curses us.
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"Tarzan the invincible"
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stay out of trouble.
Just be a good boy, okay?
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Okay.
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<i>My parents' friends,
Staszek and Mala Rudnicki,</i>
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<i>had no children of their own,</i>
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<i>so sometimes my parents
would let them borrow me.</i>
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<i>My father said</i>
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<i>that the Hebrew word
for childlessness</i>
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<i>is related
to the word for darkness,</i>
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<i>and that the word for darkness
is related to forgetting.</i>
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<i>Lack of memory.</i>
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<i>Lack of children.</i>
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<i>Lack of light.</i>
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<i>My mother would
go off on her own.</i>
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<i>To where,
I could only imagine.</i>
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When visiting an Arab home,
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it's especially important
to remember your manners.
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Children are expected to stay
out of adult conversations.
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Only if spoken to directly,
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may you answer briefly
and very politely.
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If refreshments are served,
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don't choose something that
might make crumbs or grip.
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If they still insist
you have something,
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just refuse, but delicately,
like a gentleman...
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even if you can't resist
the sight of sweets.
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We were only invited
because your uncle Staszek
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took care
of Al-Halwani's son.
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If, on this occasion,
in such tense times,
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we behave like animals,
not only will it be sheer insolence,
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it could cause enormous damage to
the future of our two peoples.
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Jacket? Jacket?
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Ah! Ah, my friend,
come, come, come.
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Welcome, welcome,
welcome.
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Pleased to meet you, madam.
Hello.
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Please, everybody, I would
like you to meet my friend,
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the great Mr. Stav.
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Mr. Stav helped to clear
my son Edward,
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from that unfortunate incident
at the beginning of the summer.
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Thank you for coming.
Please, come here.
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Maybe the youngster would like
to go and play in the garden?
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Please.
Please, madam.
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I want to show you...
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Good morning, Miss.
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My name is Amos. And you?
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My name is Aisha.
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This is my brother, Awwad.
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Your father...
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Your honored father
suggested...
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That I come here
to play with you.
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He's not my father.
He's my mother's uncle.
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I don't live here.
I live in Talbieh.
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How do you
know Hebrew?
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I've been studying piano
in Rehavia for three years now.
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It's a beautiful language,
and Rehavia is beautiful too,
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so well-kept and quiet.
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Talbieh is also
well-kept and quiet.
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Would you mind if
we talked for a bit?
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Aren't we talking
already?
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There's enough room in
this country for both peoples.
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We just need to learn to live
together in peace and mutual respect.
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I have a big brother
in London.
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He's studying
to be a lawyer.
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What do you want to study
when you grow up?
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What about you?
243
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You'll be a lawyer too,
based on how you speak.
244
00:21:19,212 --> 00:21:21,912
What makes you think that?
245
00:21:21,914 --> 00:21:24,315
I'm going to write a book.
246
00:21:24,317 --> 00:21:26,584
Really?
What kind of book?
247
00:21:26,586 --> 00:21:28,586
Poems.
248
00:21:28,588 --> 00:21:33,591
Poems? Yes.
In French and English.
249
00:21:33,593 --> 00:21:38,462
I also write in Arabic, but
i never show it to anyone.
250
00:21:40,632 --> 00:21:42,967
Is there
nice Hebrew poetry?
251
00:21:42,969 --> 00:21:46,237
Of course!
Levin Kipnis, Rachel.
252
00:21:46,239 --> 00:21:50,574
Vladimir Jabotinsky,
Tcheminchowsky...
253
00:21:50,576 --> 00:21:53,344
"A generation of gods
walks the land...
254
00:21:54,479 --> 00:21:57,615
"A generation
drunk on life!
255
00:21:57,617 --> 00:22:00,418
"Estranged from
a sick people.
256
00:22:00,420 --> 00:22:03,421
And the tribe of sufferers."
257
00:22:10,262 --> 00:22:12,596
Can you also climb trees?
258
00:22:21,273 --> 00:22:23,607
Rest a minute,
259
00:22:23,609 --> 00:22:26,444
just a minute.
260
00:22:26,446 --> 00:22:29,280
Rest a minute,
261
00:22:29,282 --> 00:22:30,715
just a minute.
262
00:24:07,813 --> 00:24:11,782
This is the father of Amos.
May I please speak with Mr. Al-Halwani?
263
00:24:13,885 --> 00:24:18,422
Well, could you please tell him how very
truly sorry we are about what happened?
264
00:24:18,424 --> 00:24:21,392
We are anxious for
the health of the dear child.
265
00:24:21,394 --> 00:24:24,428
We'll pay any of the child's medical
expenses, of course, in full.
266
00:24:28,567 --> 00:24:31,135
And we sincerely wish to effect
a meeting at an early date
267
00:24:31,137 --> 00:24:34,805
to clarify and try
to right the wrong.
268
00:24:50,655 --> 00:24:53,023
Once there were two monks...
269
00:24:53,025 --> 00:24:55,092
Who imposed all sorts of
restrictions on themselves.
270
00:24:55,094 --> 00:24:56,760
Among other things,
271
00:24:56,762 --> 00:25:02,166
they resolve to cross
all of India on foot.
272
00:25:08,841 --> 00:25:11,675
<i>They also took a vow
of complete silence.</i>
273
00:25:13,445 --> 00:25:15,679
<i>Even in their sleep,
they would not speak</i>
274
00:25:15,681 --> 00:25:20,017
<i>a single word throughout
their years of travel.</i>
275
00:25:20,019 --> 00:25:21,819
But once...
276
00:25:21,821 --> 00:25:24,555
While they were walking
along the bank of a river,
277
00:25:24,557 --> 00:25:27,791
they heard a drowning woman
crying for help.
278
00:25:37,469 --> 00:25:40,538
<i>Without a word, the younger
monk jumped into the water.</i>
279
00:25:43,875 --> 00:25:45,676
<i>He bore the woman
on his back</i>
280
00:25:45,678 --> 00:25:47,978
<i>and laid her on the ground.</i>
281
00:25:54,686 --> 00:25:58,656
<i>The two monks continued
their journey in silence.</i>
282
00:25:58,658 --> 00:26:00,524
Six months later,
283
00:26:00,526 --> 00:26:03,160
the younger monk
suddenly asked,
284
00:26:06,698 --> 00:26:08,899
"tell me...
285
00:26:11,202 --> 00:26:16,106
Do you think I sinned when I
carried that woman on my back?"
286
00:26:16,108 --> 00:26:18,776
<i>His friend answered
with a question:</i>
287
00:26:18,778 --> 00:26:23,013
"What? Are you still
carrying her on your back?"
288
00:26:38,196 --> 00:26:44,201
Amos, when I was a student,
I loved to read here among the flowers.
289
00:26:44,203 --> 00:26:48,272
And one day, after class,
she met your future father here.
290
00:26:48,274 --> 00:26:50,674
Do you remember what I told you
about the word "flower"?
291
00:26:52,277 --> 00:26:55,279
Flower is a combination of
the words "bull" and "scent."
292
00:26:55,281 --> 00:26:57,548
"Bull" has the same root
as "fertility,"
293
00:26:57,550 --> 00:27:01,885
and "scent" lures the insects
that fertilize the plant.
294
00:27:01,887 --> 00:27:05,055
He took advantage of
my weakness for words.
295
00:27:05,057 --> 00:27:08,225
What could I do? All
the boys were courting her!
296
00:27:08,227 --> 00:27:10,294
I had to make myself
stand out.
297
00:27:11,563 --> 00:27:12,896
That's what happened.
298
00:28:13,324 --> 00:28:18,128
<i>Remembering is like trying
to restore an old building</i>
299
00:28:18,130 --> 00:28:20,364
<i>with the stones
from its ruins.</i>
300
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,368
<i>And the stones have memory.</i>
301
00:28:32,210 --> 00:28:35,646
May I please have some APC?
302
00:28:35,648 --> 00:28:37,815
I have a headache
that won't go away.
303
00:28:37,817 --> 00:28:41,318
I don't believe them.
I don't believe anyone anymore.
304
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,921
It's a big conspIracy.
305
00:28:43,923 --> 00:28:47,658
What do you think?
That our boys will fight for you,
306
00:28:47,660 --> 00:28:49,827
that they risk their
young lives for you,
307
00:28:49,829 --> 00:28:52,162
when you say
it's all a conspIracy?
308
00:28:52,164 --> 00:28:54,031
Yes, because it is
all one big conspIracy!
309
00:28:54,033 --> 00:28:55,833
It's like theater!
310
00:28:55,835 --> 00:28:59,670
Ben-Gurion secretly agreed to
sell Jerusalem to king Abdullah
311
00:28:59,672 --> 00:29:01,672
so that he can keep
his kibbutzim.
312
00:29:01,674 --> 00:29:04,341
They don't care if they
slaughter and burn us all.
313
00:29:04,343 --> 00:29:06,910
What's wrong with you?
How can you say that?
314
00:29:08,346 --> 00:29:10,848
A million kids...
315
00:29:10,850 --> 00:29:15,119
If there is a war...
when there is a war... we will win.
316
00:29:15,121 --> 00:29:17,020
Our state is standing
right at the gate.
317
00:29:18,389 --> 00:29:21,125
It's not standing.
There is no gate.
318
00:29:22,694 --> 00:29:25,963
There is an abyss.
Not in front of the child.
319
00:29:32,203 --> 00:29:34,104
Mm.
320
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,708
Nothing grew!
321
00:29:37,710 --> 00:29:39,943
Come here.
322
00:29:47,719 --> 00:29:49,787
You know...
323
00:29:49,789 --> 00:29:54,224
That if you open up someone's
head and take out his brain...
324
00:29:55,994 --> 00:29:59,730
You see that our brains are
nothing but cauliflower...
325
00:29:59,732 --> 00:30:02,332
a cauliflower this size.
326
00:30:02,334 --> 00:30:06,737
What a mIracle it is that
this small cauliflower
327
00:30:06,739 --> 00:30:10,174
can hold the sky
and the land,
328
00:30:10,176 --> 00:30:13,277
the sun and
all the stars.
329
00:30:13,279 --> 00:30:18,749
It can hold Plato's ideas,
and Beethoven's music,
330
00:30:18,751 --> 00:30:22,753
and Chekhov's plays,
331
00:30:22,755 --> 00:30:26,990
all the dinosaurs
and the whales...
332
00:30:29,828 --> 00:30:34,331
And the hopes and the passions
and mistakes and fantasies...
333
00:30:35,767 --> 00:30:37,868
And that's it.
334
00:30:51,316 --> 00:30:53,450
Amos!
335
00:30:53,452 --> 00:30:55,385
Come play with us!
336
00:30:55,387 --> 00:30:58,422
I can't. My grandma
is coming today.
337
00:31:03,127 --> 00:31:05,262
Kids! What are you doing?
338
00:31:10,201 --> 00:31:12,803
You've abandoned me.
339
00:31:12,805 --> 00:31:15,806
I have no life here.
340
00:31:15,808 --> 00:31:19,376
You spit on me,
your own mother...
341
00:31:19,378 --> 00:31:24,081
the only person
who will take care of you!
342
00:31:25,083 --> 00:31:28,418
Just look at you.
343
00:31:28,420 --> 00:31:30,754
How can you stand it?
344
00:31:34,259 --> 00:31:36,426
This place is disgusting!
345
00:31:38,863 --> 00:31:42,499
Oh. I'm not good enough
for you to answer?
346
00:31:44,269 --> 00:31:47,404
I should have
left you in Rovno!
347
00:31:47,406 --> 00:31:50,407
I would have been
better off!
348
00:32:17,302 --> 00:32:19,169
Fanitchka!
349
00:32:22,307 --> 00:32:24,007
Fania!
350
00:32:25,376 --> 00:32:28,111
Amos, where's your mother?
351
00:32:32,550 --> 00:32:35,953
Fania?
352
00:32:58,576 --> 00:33:01,411
You won't believe it!
My book is sold out!
353
00:33:01,413 --> 00:33:03,180
All five of them!
354
00:33:03,182 --> 00:33:05,649
He said he'd order more.
He already did, by phone.
355
00:33:05,651 --> 00:33:09,052
Five more! He says this
is just the beginning!
356
00:33:16,494 --> 00:33:19,663
Let's go to the Edison
and see a film.
357
00:33:24,435 --> 00:33:26,937
Zarchi will
watch you, okay?
358
00:33:26,939 --> 00:33:28,672
For us.
359
00:33:28,674 --> 00:33:33,510
<i>You can find hell
and paradise in every room.</i>
360
00:33:35,380 --> 00:33:40,384
<i>A little meanness,
and people are hell to each other.</i>
361
00:33:40,386 --> 00:33:43,520
<i>A little compassion,
a little generosity,</i>
362
00:33:43,522 --> 00:33:46,623
<i>and people find
paradise in each other.</i>
363
00:33:46,625 --> 00:33:50,127
Congratulations again.
364
00:33:50,129 --> 00:33:52,562
I still can't believe it.
365
00:33:52,564 --> 00:33:54,197
Give my love to garbo.
366
00:33:55,700 --> 00:33:57,134
Amos, behave yourself.
367
00:34:30,501 --> 00:34:32,636
Want a book?
368
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,015
Tchernichowsky.
369
00:35:28,259 --> 00:35:31,728
<i>It seems that your patience
has helped our plants.</i>
370
00:35:31,730 --> 00:35:34,164
Why don't you go
see for yourself?
371
00:36:08,099 --> 00:36:12,802
When my family moved to
the house on Dubinska street,
372
00:36:12,804 --> 00:36:16,373
we inherited some tenants
from the previous owners.
373
00:36:18,109 --> 00:36:22,379
A Polish officer named Jan
lived in the front room.
374
00:36:22,381 --> 00:36:26,349
<i>Every Friday, my mother
would send one of us</i>
375
00:36:26,351 --> 00:36:30,620
<i>with a tray of hot biscuits,
straight from the oven,</i>
376
00:36:30,622 --> 00:36:33,557
<i>to wish him a good Sabbath
on behalf of the entire family.</i>
377
00:36:33,559 --> 00:36:34,824
<i>Sabbat shalom.</i>
378
00:36:37,396 --> 00:36:40,397
<i>He would stroke my head...</i>
379
00:36:40,399 --> 00:36:42,499
Call me <i>cyganka,</i>
380
00:36:42,501 --> 00:36:44,868
a gypsy.
381
00:36:44,870 --> 00:36:48,572
<i>And promise he would
wait for me</i>
382
00:36:48,574 --> 00:36:51,441
<i>and marry me when I grew up.</i>
383
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:05,255
<i>But, one day...</i>
384
00:37:07,158 --> 00:37:11,294
<i>A Sunday morning
before the sun came up...</i>
385
00:37:12,897 --> 00:37:15,599
<i>The colonel decided
to try out his pistol.</i>
386
00:37:18,169 --> 00:37:21,238
<i>He fired two bullets through the
closed window into the garden.</i>
387
00:37:24,176 --> 00:37:26,543
<i>By chance, he hit a pigeon</i>
388
00:37:26,545 --> 00:37:29,412
<i>which was found wounded
in the garden the next day.</i>
389
00:37:31,349 --> 00:37:34,818
Then he fired one shot
at a bottle on the table...
390
00:37:37,188 --> 00:37:38,922
<i>Two more at the chandelier...</i>
391
00:37:42,426 --> 00:37:44,160
And then...
392
00:37:59,810 --> 00:38:05,548
Once, I found a note
in a crack in a desk drawer.
393
00:38:05,550 --> 00:38:08,218
It was written
in a woman's handwriting.
394
00:38:09,287 --> 00:38:13,256
"To my precious
little wolf cub.
395
00:38:13,258 --> 00:38:17,227
"In all my life I've never met a better,
more generous man than you.
396
00:38:17,229 --> 00:38:21,398
<i>I am not worthy to kiss
the soles of your shoes."</i>
397
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:25,535
There were two
spelling mistakes.
398
00:38:26,971 --> 00:38:29,506
It was signed with an N,
399
00:38:29,508 --> 00:38:31,975
and she sketched lips below it.
400
00:38:42,820 --> 00:38:45,488
Nobody knows anything
about anyone...
401
00:38:47,358 --> 00:38:50,427
Not even
the person you marry,
402
00:38:50,429 --> 00:38:52,329
and not even
about ourselves.
403
00:38:53,497 --> 00:38:55,832
We know nothing.
404
00:38:55,834 --> 00:38:59,669
But if we sometimes imagine
that we do know something,
405
00:38:59,671 --> 00:39:02,472
that's even worse.
406
00:39:02,474 --> 00:39:05,442
It's better to live
without knowing
407
00:39:05,444 --> 00:39:08,278
than to live in error.
408
00:39:15,019 --> 00:39:18,488
November 29, 1947
409
00:39:18,490 --> 00:39:20,290
tonight...
410
00:39:20,292 --> 00:39:22,292
At lake success, near New York,
411
00:39:22,294 --> 00:39:26,496
the general assembly of
the un will vote on what?
412
00:39:26,498 --> 00:39:29,299
Adopting the UNSCOP proposal.
413
00:39:29,301 --> 00:39:30,800
And what's the proposal?
414
00:39:30,802 --> 00:39:34,671
To create two states
out of the British mandate:
415
00:39:34,673 --> 00:39:36,639
One Jewish, and one Arab.
416
00:39:36,641 --> 00:39:41,978
Who opposes it?
The Muslim bloc and Britain.
417
00:39:41,980 --> 00:39:44,481
And why?
418
00:39:44,483 --> 00:39:48,651
They want an Arab state
under British protection.
419
00:39:48,653 --> 00:39:50,720
Like Egypt,
Transjordan and Iraq.
420
00:39:50,722 --> 00:39:52,722
Well done!
421
00:39:52,724 --> 00:39:55,892
You know, the name
lake success...
422
00:39:55,894 --> 00:39:58,695
Is the opposite
of the sea of tears,
423
00:39:58,697 --> 00:40:01,531
with symbolized the fate of
our people for the poet Bialik.
424
00:40:03,068 --> 00:40:06,403
It's interesting.
Interesting.
425
00:40:08,038 --> 00:40:11,074
<i>Norway... yes.</i>
426
00:40:11,076 --> 00:40:12,709
<i>Pakistan...</i>
427
00:40:12,711 --> 00:40:14,577
<i>no.</i>
428
00:40:14,579 --> 00:40:16,012
<i>Panama...</i>
429
00:40:16,014 --> 00:40:17,514
<i>yes.</i>
430
00:40:17,516 --> 00:40:19,082
<i>Paraguay...</i>
431
00:40:20,418 --> 00:40:22,352
<i>yes.</i>
432
00:40:22,354 --> 00:40:24,687
Could you please
help me?
433
00:40:25,723 --> 00:40:27,524
<i>Philippines...</i>
434
00:40:27,526 --> 00:40:28,958
<i>yes.</i>
435
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:31,027
<i>Poland...</i>
436
00:40:31,029 --> 00:40:33,563
<i>yes.</i>
437
00:40:33,565 --> 00:40:35,532
<i>Saudi Arabia...</i>
438
00:40:35,534 --> 00:40:37,600
<i>no.</i>
439
00:40:37,602 --> 00:40:42,105
<i>Siam... absent.</i>
440
00:40:42,107 --> 00:40:44,107
<i>Sweden...</i>
441
00:40:44,109 --> 00:40:45,708
<i>yes.</i>
442
00:40:45,710 --> 00:40:47,477
<i>Syria...</i>
443
00:40:47,479 --> 00:40:49,045
<i>no.</i>
444
00:40:49,047 --> 00:40:50,713
<i>Turkey...</i>
445
00:40:50,715 --> 00:40:52,382
<i>no.</i>
446
00:40:52,384 --> 00:40:53,817
<i>Ukraine...</i>
447
00:40:53,819 --> 00:40:55,585
<i>yes.</i>
448
00:40:55,587 --> 00:40:57,120
<i>South Africa...</i>
449
00:40:57,122 --> 00:40:58,888
<i>yes.</i>
450
00:40:58,890 --> 00:41:00,590
<i>Soviet Union...</i>
451
00:41:00,592 --> 00:41:02,125
<i>yes.</i>
452
00:41:02,127 --> 00:41:04,394
<i>United Kingdom...</i>
453
00:41:04,396 --> 00:41:06,062
<i>abstained.</i>
454
00:41:06,064 --> 00:41:08,398
<i>United States...</i>
455
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:09,966
<i>yes.</i>
456
00:41:09,968 --> 00:41:11,634
<i>Uruguay...</i>
457
00:41:11,636 --> 00:41:13,403
<i>yes.</i>
458
00:41:13,405 --> 00:41:14,904
<i>Venezuela...</i>
459
00:41:14,906 --> 00:41:16,573
<i>yes.</i>
460
00:41:16,575 --> 00:41:17,907
<i>Yemen...</i>
461
00:41:17,909 --> 00:41:19,476
<i>no.</i>
462
00:41:19,478 --> 00:41:21,077
<i>Yugoslavia...</i>
463
00:41:21,079 --> 00:41:23,813
<i>abstained.</i>
464
00:41:26,485 --> 00:41:29,152
<i>The resolution</i>
465
00:41:29,154 --> 00:41:32,755
<i>of the ad hoc committee
for Palestine</i>
466
00:41:32,757 --> 00:41:37,627
<i>was adopted by 33 votes...
13 against, 10 abstained.</i>
467
00:41:44,168 --> 00:41:48,404
The Jewish nation lives!
The Jewish nation lives!
468
00:42:20,504 --> 00:42:22,472
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
469
00:42:22,474 --> 00:42:25,508
Everything
is about to change.
470
00:42:25,510 --> 00:42:27,076
I told you it would.
471
00:42:29,213 --> 00:42:32,782
We brought peace unto you!
472
00:43:32,042 --> 00:43:35,878
You can't imagine what
the gentile boys did to me
473
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:37,814
in my school in Vilna.
474
00:43:41,952 --> 00:43:46,889
Then, when my father, your grandfather,
came to the school to complain,
475
00:43:46,891 --> 00:43:48,725
they attacked him too.
476
00:43:48,727 --> 00:43:52,061
They threw him
to the ground,
477
00:43:52,063 --> 00:43:55,298
and removed his pants
in the middle of the yard.
478
00:43:57,134 --> 00:44:00,136
All the children laughed.
479
00:44:00,138 --> 00:44:03,072
And the teachers watched
and were silent.
480
00:44:05,576 --> 00:44:07,844
Some of them also laughed.
481
00:44:10,948 --> 00:44:13,950
Bullies may well
bully you someday
482
00:44:13,952 --> 00:44:17,320
in the street
or at school.
483
00:44:17,322 --> 00:44:20,556
They may do it just because
you're a bit like me.
484
00:44:21,992 --> 00:44:25,595
But from now on,
now that we have our own state,
485
00:44:25,597 --> 00:44:28,765
you will never be bullied
just because you are a Jew.
486
00:44:28,767 --> 00:44:30,833
Never again.
487
00:44:41,612 --> 00:44:45,715
<i>A few hours later,
at seven in the morning,</i>
488
00:44:45,717 --> 00:44:48,151
<i>while we were all asleep,</i>
489
00:44:48,153 --> 00:44:52,789
<i>shots were fired on
Jewish vehicles in Jerusalem,</i>
490
00:44:52,791 --> 00:44:56,025
<i>which turned into riots
across the country.</i>
491
00:45:21,885 --> 00:45:24,120
My code name
is Garibaldi.
492
00:45:27,357 --> 00:45:29,992
I'll be instructing
you how to help
493
00:45:29,994 --> 00:45:32,061
in our patriotic
wartime efforts.
494
00:45:33,363 --> 00:45:35,264
You will help...
495
00:45:37,001 --> 00:45:38,868
You will search all
the storage yards and sheds
496
00:45:38,870 --> 00:45:41,671
for empty bags
to fill with sand,
497
00:45:41,673 --> 00:45:43,906
and empty bottles
to make "cocktails"
498
00:45:43,908 --> 00:45:47,176
that will be very tasty
for the enemy.
499
00:45:47,178 --> 00:45:51,948
You also will gather edible
greens from empty fields,
500
00:45:51,950 --> 00:45:54,350
to help relieve
the hunger in Jerusalem.
501
00:45:54,352 --> 00:45:56,085
And we'll also serve
as look-outs...
502
00:45:56,087 --> 00:46:00,022
To observe any movements
by the Brits.
503
00:46:00,024 --> 00:46:01,691
Now go!
504
00:46:29,253 --> 00:46:31,053
How beautiful.
505
00:46:31,055 --> 00:46:33,723
Wash them off and I'll
cook them right now.
506
00:46:33,725 --> 00:46:35,892
You must be hungry
after all your food foraging.
507
00:46:39,396 --> 00:46:40,797
Put some water in this.
508
00:46:50,240 --> 00:46:52,809
Fanitchka?
509
00:46:52,811 --> 00:46:54,977
I joined the national guard.
510
00:47:00,751 --> 00:47:02,919
Don't you have anything
to say about that?
511
00:47:02,921 --> 00:47:05,688
What do you want me to say?
512
00:47:05,690 --> 00:47:08,024
Congratulations.
You're very brave.
513
00:47:14,298 --> 00:47:16,999
<i>The war infiltrated our home.</i>
514
00:47:17,001 --> 00:47:20,803
<i>Life became
rations, sandbags,</i>
515
00:47:20,805 --> 00:47:22,905
<i>mourning.</i>
516
00:47:53,203 --> 00:47:55,805
<i>In the lives of individuals,</i>
517
00:47:55,807 --> 00:47:57,807
<i>and in the lives of nations,</i>
518
00:47:57,809 --> 00:48:03,279
<i>the worst conflicts erupt
between two persecuted people.</i>
519
00:48:08,986 --> 00:48:13,155
<i>Only in the imagination do the
persecuted unite in solidarity</i>
520
00:48:13,157 --> 00:48:16,292
<i>to fight together against
their ruthless oppressor.</i>
521
00:48:18,829 --> 00:48:20,830
<i>In reality,</i>
522
00:48:20,832 --> 00:48:23,332
<i>two children of
the same abusive father</i>
523
00:48:23,334 --> 00:48:25,935
<i>will not necessarily
become allies.</i>
524
00:48:29,506 --> 00:48:31,540
<i>Often, each sees
in his brother</i>
525
00:48:31,542 --> 00:48:34,577
<i>their father's
threatening ways.</i>
526
00:48:39,583 --> 00:48:43,486
<i>Europe abused the Arabs,
humiliating them with colonialism...</i>
527
00:48:45,289 --> 00:48:48,824
<i>And the same Europe persecuted
and annihilated the Jews.</i>
528
00:48:53,597 --> 00:48:57,867
<i>But the Arabs see us
as an arrogant new branch</i>
529
00:48:57,869 --> 00:49:00,036
<i>of European colonialism
and exploitation,</i>
530
00:49:02,205 --> 00:49:07,109
<i>and we do not see Arabs
as brothers in adversity,</i>
531
00:49:07,111 --> 00:49:12,615
<i>but rather, as anti-semites,
Nazis in disguise.</i>
532
00:49:16,888 --> 00:49:21,057
<i>...after 30 years
of the British mandate...</i>
533
00:49:21,059 --> 00:49:24,393
<i>The new state was born</i>
534
00:49:24,395 --> 00:49:29,565
<i>with David Ben-Gurion's declaration
in Tel Aviv just hours earlier.</i>
535
00:49:29,567 --> 00:49:33,235
<i>For weeks, our basement apartment was
turned into a kind of bomb shelter</i>
536
00:49:33,237 --> 00:49:36,138
<i>for the residents
of the apartments above us.</i>
537
00:49:43,580 --> 00:49:47,083
You're pulling. It hurts!
538
00:49:47,085 --> 00:49:49,952
What is this?
Crumbs everywhere!
539
00:49:49,954 --> 00:49:52,888
You can't make
such a mess here!
540
00:49:54,958 --> 00:49:58,327
A hundred Jews were burned alive
yesterday near Sheikh Jarrah.
541
00:49:58,329 --> 00:50:01,263
They were in a convoy going up
to the hospital and university.
542
00:50:01,265 --> 00:50:03,032
A hundred people!
543
00:50:03,034 --> 00:50:06,102
Doctors, nurses, students.
544
00:50:06,104 --> 00:50:09,972
- Why didn't we save them?
- The British wouldn't let us.
545
00:50:09,974 --> 00:50:11,507
Who can even stomach
this chicken,
546
00:50:11,509 --> 00:50:14,543
when horrors like that
happen right in front of us?
547
00:50:14,545 --> 00:50:17,013
The children haven't
eaten meat in two months.
548
00:50:36,466 --> 00:50:37,933
Here you go, ma'am.
549
00:50:45,175 --> 00:50:46,375
Who's next?
550
00:52:07,657 --> 00:52:10,392
<i>When her friend died,</i>
551
00:52:10,394 --> 00:52:15,464
<i>when real tragedy landed outside
the pages of my mother's novels,</i>
552
00:52:15,466 --> 00:52:20,069
<i>the suffering
wasn't romantic at all.</i>
553
00:52:54,271 --> 00:52:56,605
There's an armistice
agreement with Egypt.
554
00:52:56,607 --> 00:53:01,343
Next will be Transjordan,
and then Syria and Lebanon.
555
00:53:13,356 --> 00:53:15,558
<i>When the British left,</i>
556
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:19,361
<i>the green line was drawn
around Israel.</i>
557
00:53:22,799 --> 00:53:24,633
<i>Our neighbors moved back
to their own homes,</i>
558
00:53:24,635 --> 00:53:26,802
<i>euphoric and optimistic,</i>
559
00:53:26,804 --> 00:53:31,540
<i>and left us along
to ourselves.</i>
560
00:53:31,542 --> 00:53:36,178
<i>The improbable creation
of the new state of Israel</i>
561
00:53:36,180 --> 00:53:41,317
<i>extinguished thousands
of years of Jewish longing</i>
562
00:53:41,319 --> 00:53:44,353
<i>for a homeland of its own.</i>
563
00:53:44,355 --> 00:53:49,258
<i>Maybe my mother felt the loss
of this passion, this dream,</i>
564
00:53:49,260 --> 00:53:53,896
<i>because suddenly she stopped
telling her stories.</i>
565
00:54:31,301 --> 00:54:33,869
What do my eyes see?
566
00:54:33,871 --> 00:54:37,873
A boy, about three, standing
in the middle of the street,
567
00:54:37,875 --> 00:54:40,776
and a military vehicle
rushing toward him.
568
00:54:40,778 --> 00:54:42,745
I mustered all my strength.
569
00:54:42,747 --> 00:54:45,214
I yelled to him.
570
00:54:45,216 --> 00:54:47,716
"Boy! Boy!"
571
00:54:47,718 --> 00:54:51,387
It seemed
my shout reached him,
572
00:54:51,389 --> 00:54:53,789
because he quickly
jumped aside.
573
00:54:53,791 --> 00:54:57,393
Who knows? Maybe
his mother left him alone,
574
00:54:57,395 --> 00:55:00,462
or maybe she's poor
and can't support him...
575
00:55:00,464 --> 00:55:02,965
and can't stand
to see him starve,
576
00:55:02,967 --> 00:55:05,467
or maybe he's an orphan.
577
00:55:05,469 --> 00:55:08,971
Yes, there are children
like that in our world too.
578
00:55:46,309 --> 00:55:47,576
Give me your sandwich!
579
00:55:49,279 --> 00:55:50,846
Give me your sandwich!
580
00:56:28,852 --> 00:56:33,322
Our blood will not
be spilled in vain!
581
00:56:33,324 --> 00:56:36,458
Abandoned property
582
00:57:05,889 --> 00:57:07,523
I'll be back
in fifteen minutes.
583
00:57:07,525 --> 00:57:09,858
Can I go with you?
584
00:57:09,860 --> 00:57:13,462
I need to be
alone for a bit.
585
00:57:13,464 --> 00:57:15,631
You can be alone too.
586
00:57:15,633 --> 00:57:17,766
I'll be back soon.
587
00:59:10,046 --> 00:59:11,980
Maybe you can
finally tell me.
588
00:59:11,982 --> 00:59:15,984
What is it about you that
makes me love you so much?
589
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:20,155
More than anything...
590
00:59:20,157 --> 00:59:23,926
More than anything,
i love your innocence.
591
00:59:23,928 --> 00:59:25,661
I've never encountered
anything like it.
592
00:59:26,896 --> 00:59:29,831
Even after you live out
your entire life,
593
00:59:29,833 --> 00:59:31,867
and have all kinds
of experiences,
594
00:59:31,869 --> 00:59:35,904
your innocence
will never abandon you.
595
00:59:39,776 --> 00:59:44,246
I think you'll grow up
to be a man...
596
00:59:44,248 --> 00:59:47,683
Who is open and enthusiastic
like your father,
597
00:59:47,685 --> 00:59:53,021
but you'll also be a man who's
quiet and closed and full...
598
00:59:53,023 --> 00:59:55,257
Like a well
in a deserted village.
599
00:59:57,260 --> 00:59:59,194
You can be both.
600
01:00:12,942 --> 01:00:18,547
<i>I felt a terrible dread
as if on the distant horizon,</i>
601
01:00:18,549 --> 01:00:21,183
<i>a vague disaster
was taking shape.</i>
602
01:00:25,288 --> 01:00:30,225
<i>My mother started having
frequent headaches.</i>
603
01:00:30,227 --> 01:00:34,129
<i>Her migraines
gave her insomnia.</i>
604
01:00:50,246 --> 01:00:55,917
<i>The doctor prescribed
sleeping pills and sedatives...</i>
605
01:00:57,253 --> 01:00:59,655
<i>But nothing helped.</i>
606
01:01:13,836 --> 01:01:16,872
Please don't be
angry with me, Amos.
607
01:01:16,874 --> 01:01:19,274
It's a little hard
for me right now.
608
01:01:19,276 --> 01:01:22,678
You see how much I'm trying
to make things right.
609
01:01:31,654 --> 01:01:33,355
Thank you, Amos.
610
01:01:33,357 --> 01:01:35,791
I know I can rely
on you completely.
611
01:01:38,227 --> 01:01:39,895
- Good night.
- Good night.
612
01:01:52,975 --> 01:01:54,309
Papa?
613
01:01:54,311 --> 01:01:57,279
Sleep... sleep.
614
01:02:02,885 --> 01:02:05,787
I'm so lucky.
I'm so lucky.
615
01:02:48,731 --> 01:02:51,767
<i>It's 7:00, and these
are the headlines.</i>
616
01:02:51,769 --> 01:02:54,903
<i>This year too, there is
an urgent need to find homes</i>
617
01:02:54,905 --> 01:02:59,908
<i>for innocent children with foster
families across the country.</i>
618
01:02:59,910 --> 01:03:05,447
<i>Last year alone,
50,000 children were placed in homes.</i>
619
01:03:05,449 --> 01:03:10,051
<i>Despite this achievement, there
are still 20,000 children,</i>
620
01:03:10,053 --> 01:03:14,055
<i>who will have to spend
the winter months in tents.</i>
621
01:03:14,057 --> 01:03:18,160
<i>10,000 children ages 5-12,</i>
622
01:03:18,162 --> 01:03:21,163
<i>need temporary housing
this winter</i>
623
01:03:21,165 --> 01:03:24,466
<i>across the country.</i>
624
01:03:24,468 --> 01:03:28,937
<i>The roots for children project
appeals to every home in Israel</i>
625
01:03:28,939 --> 01:03:32,474
<i>to host a child
from the camps...</i>
626
01:03:57,433 --> 01:03:59,835
She's punishing herself.
627
01:03:59,837 --> 01:04:02,337
Just to punish me.
628
01:04:05,107 --> 01:04:08,476
I have done.
629
01:04:08,478 --> 01:04:12,781
I have been doing.
I have been doing.
630
01:04:12,783 --> 01:04:15,317
I should have done.
631
01:04:15,319 --> 01:04:19,955
I should have done.
I should have been doing.
632
01:05:08,004 --> 01:05:09,404
Go...
633
01:05:11,040 --> 01:05:13,975
Go play a little outside.
634
01:05:18,948 --> 01:05:21,182
But be careful.
635
01:05:21,184 --> 01:05:23,018
There are
all sorts out there.
636
01:05:23,020 --> 01:05:25,921
Not all women are as kind
and honest as you are.
637
01:05:37,033 --> 01:05:40,201
You can come home
whenever you like.
638
01:05:48,611 --> 01:05:50,612
Do you need anything?
639
01:05:50,614 --> 01:05:51,846
Amos is here.
640
01:07:12,628 --> 01:07:16,531
<i>My father and I told people
that she had the flu</i>
641
01:07:16,533 --> 01:07:18,967
<i>or a particular
sensitivity to sunlight,</i>
642
01:07:18,969 --> 01:07:22,137
<i>or that she gets
very tired.</i>
643
01:07:22,139 --> 01:07:26,307
<i>We didn't tell anyone
what we both knew.</i>
644
01:07:26,309 --> 01:07:28,977
<i>The only one who knew
was my mother's best friend.</i>
645
01:07:28,979 --> 01:07:30,678
Amos.
646
01:07:30,680 --> 01:07:32,981
You're a ray of sunshine,
you know?
647
01:07:32,983 --> 01:07:35,583
Your mother says that
you're her light.
648
01:07:48,731 --> 01:07:52,367
You're such a clever,
sensitive child.
649
01:07:52,369 --> 01:07:56,271
You know,
I have a feeling...
650
01:07:56,273 --> 01:07:59,741
That when you grow up
you will be a writer.
651
01:08:01,077 --> 01:08:02,710
I won't be a writer.
652
01:08:02,712 --> 01:08:05,046
I'm not sensitive!
653
01:08:05,048 --> 01:08:09,350
I'll be a farmer or a dog-poisoner
with a syringe full of poison.
654
01:08:12,288 --> 01:08:15,557
Have a good day.
You too...
655
01:08:32,308 --> 01:08:36,244
Do you know what happened when
Tarzan met the cowboys and Indians?
656
01:08:36,246 --> 01:08:38,613
What happened?
657
01:08:38,615 --> 01:08:43,218
Tarzan watched from a tree as the
cowboys and Indians fought below.
658
01:08:43,220 --> 01:08:48,556
A cowboy caught a snake
by the throat
659
01:08:48,558 --> 01:08:51,559
and poured its venom
into the Indian's mouth!
660
01:08:51,561 --> 01:08:55,163
So the Indian grabbed
a thorny cactus
661
01:08:55,165 --> 01:08:58,066
and stabbed...
662
01:08:58,068 --> 01:09:00,235
The cowboy in his blue eyes.
663
01:09:00,237 --> 01:09:03,138
Tarzan watched from above
664
01:09:03,140 --> 01:09:07,308
and thought
about what to do.
665
01:09:09,812 --> 01:09:11,346
And then what?
666
01:09:13,249 --> 01:09:15,116
I'll tell you tomorrow.
667
01:09:19,321 --> 01:09:22,557
The story was great.
Where did you hear it?
668
01:09:24,493 --> 01:09:27,595
Hey... isn't
that your dad?
669
01:09:27,597 --> 01:09:29,831
Where?
670
01:10:55,851 --> 01:10:57,752
Ah!
671
01:11:46,935 --> 01:11:49,237
Amos... you're being
very good.
672
01:11:49,239 --> 01:11:51,739
Your mother has
a terrible headache.
673
01:11:51,741 --> 01:11:53,908
Keep your voice down.
674
01:11:53,910 --> 01:11:57,245
And no running
around, okay?
675
01:11:57,247 --> 01:11:58,246
Get the door.
676
01:12:12,628 --> 01:12:15,763
- Do you need anything?
- No, thank you.
677
01:12:15,765 --> 01:12:17,265
Then why don't you lie down?
678
01:12:17,267 --> 01:12:21,002
I'm fine
like this, thank you.
679
01:12:21,004 --> 01:12:23,604
Do you see a doctor?
I don't need a doctor.
680
01:12:23,606 --> 01:12:25,940
Mother, leave her alone.
Don't interfere, Arieh.
681
01:12:25,942 --> 01:12:29,277
She's being so dramatic,
as if she deserves the moon.
682
01:12:29,279 --> 01:12:32,347
So what? Moods.
Melancholia.
683
01:12:32,349 --> 01:12:34,849
It just shows that her
heart is still young.
684
01:12:34,851 --> 01:12:37,285
As if she's the only one
having a hard time here!
685
01:12:37,287 --> 01:12:40,021
That the rest of us
are living in luxury!
686
01:14:01,036 --> 01:14:05,373
<i>Behold, I call heaven and earth
today to bear witness</i>
687
01:14:05,375 --> 01:14:08,075
<i>that I have set before you
life and death,</i>
688
01:14:08,077 --> 01:14:11,112
the blessing and the curse.
689
01:14:11,114 --> 01:14:13,581
Therefore choose life,
690
01:14:13,583 --> 01:14:17,885
so that you and your
descendants may live.
691
01:14:52,821 --> 01:14:54,555
Did you finish your homework?
692
01:14:57,493 --> 01:14:59,594
Fania?
693
01:15:01,697 --> 01:15:03,431
How did you sleep?
694
01:15:03,433 --> 01:15:05,867
Well, I finally
slept well.
695
01:15:05,869 --> 01:15:10,438
The new pills
must be working.
696
01:15:10,440 --> 01:15:12,173
I had so many dreams.
697
01:15:14,443 --> 01:15:18,679
One was about someone I hadn't
thought about in years.
698
01:15:18,681 --> 01:15:21,649
In Rovno, there was
a rich fur trader
699
01:15:21,651 --> 01:15:24,785
who even got
orders from Paris,
700
01:15:24,787 --> 01:15:29,123
because he had a rare type
of fur, the silver fox.
701
01:15:29,125 --> 01:15:33,427
Furs that sparkled like
frost in the moonlight.
702
01:15:34,796 --> 01:15:36,464
But one day...
703
01:15:36,466 --> 01:15:39,200
The merchant became
a strict vegetarian.
704
01:15:39,202 --> 01:15:42,970
He left his home and built
a small cabin in the woods,
705
01:15:42,972 --> 01:15:45,806
because he felt sorry
706
01:15:45,808 --> 01:15:49,076
for the thousands of foxes
hunters had killed for his furs.
707
01:15:50,512 --> 01:15:52,213
And then
he disappeared completely.
708
01:15:54,983 --> 01:15:58,719
When my sisters and I
wanted to scare each other,
709
01:15:58,721 --> 01:16:02,890
the three of us lay
on the carpet in the dark.
710
01:16:02,892 --> 01:16:05,893
And took turns telling...
711
01:16:05,895 --> 01:16:10,831
How the man who was
once a rich furrier
712
01:16:10,833 --> 01:16:13,935
now roams naked
through the forest.
713
01:16:13,937 --> 01:16:16,203
Maybe he has rabies?
714
01:16:16,205 --> 01:16:19,106
Maybe he howls
bloodcurdling cries?
715
01:16:19,108 --> 01:16:23,778
But anyone who meets the fox-man
in the forest at night...
716
01:16:23,780 --> 01:16:27,848
His hair instantly
turns white in terror.
717
01:16:27,850 --> 01:16:29,917
Excuse me. What is
that supposed to be?
718
01:16:29,919 --> 01:16:32,253
An allegory?
An old-wives' tale?
719
01:16:35,891 --> 01:16:37,525
Sorry.
720
01:16:37,527 --> 01:16:41,796
Don't be late for
school or work, boys.
721
01:16:46,903 --> 01:16:50,638
What's the matter with you?
What's your problem?
722
01:16:50,640 --> 01:16:54,175
I'm sorry.
It's all my fault.
723
01:17:36,284 --> 01:17:39,086
Today I decided to invite
the two men in my life
724
01:17:39,088 --> 01:17:41,589
to lunch at a restaurant.
725
01:17:42,591 --> 01:17:43,824
Does dad know?
726
01:17:43,826 --> 01:17:45,326
We'll surprise him.
727
01:17:45,328 --> 01:17:47,261
Let's go to his office
728
01:17:47,263 --> 01:17:50,331
and drag him out
like a moth from a book.
729
01:17:51,333 --> 01:17:52,600
Come.
730
01:17:55,337 --> 01:17:58,873
Today, you'll be my cavalier.
731
01:17:58,875 --> 01:18:01,676
What's a cavalier?
A cavalier is a knight.
732
01:18:01,678 --> 01:18:03,277
<i>Cheval</i> is French for horse,
733
01:18:03,279 --> 01:18:05,846
and <i>chevalier</i> is
a knight on horseback.
734
01:18:20,295 --> 01:18:21,696
Thank you.
735
01:18:29,805 --> 01:18:32,039
Arieh.
736
01:18:39,381 --> 01:18:41,282
Excuse me for a minute.
737
01:18:44,686 --> 01:18:46,987
What happened?
Are my parents all right?
738
01:18:46,989 --> 01:18:48,856
Your parents?
Is everyone all right?
739
01:18:48,858 --> 01:18:50,925
Yes, everyone is fine.
740
01:18:50,927 --> 01:18:52,660
We're surprising you.
741
01:18:52,662 --> 01:18:54,662
We're taking you
out to lunch.
742
01:18:58,667 --> 01:19:00,901
Sure. Why not?
743
01:19:01,903 --> 01:19:04,038
Today I'm hosting,
744
01:19:04,040 --> 01:19:07,141
and I'd love if you ordered the
most expensive items on the menu.
745
01:19:16,017 --> 01:19:17,918
Are you ready?
746
01:19:17,920 --> 01:19:19,120
Yes.
747
01:19:19,122 --> 01:19:20,688
Vegetable soup
748
01:19:20,690 --> 01:19:22,790
and chicken with
mashed potatoes, please.
749
01:19:22,792 --> 01:19:25,259
The same
for me, please.
750
01:19:27,863 --> 01:19:33,000
Fania?
751
01:19:35,871 --> 01:19:38,806
Just some white rice, please.
752
01:19:38,808 --> 01:19:40,441
And a cup of black coffee.
753
01:19:43,078 --> 01:19:45,312
Thank you.
754
01:20:11,773 --> 01:20:13,941
Fania?
755
01:20:13,943 --> 01:20:18,145
Fania? Fanitchka?
756
01:20:26,955 --> 01:20:29,156
Mummy, are you all right?
757
01:20:45,974 --> 01:20:48,776
She needs total rest.
758
01:20:48,778 --> 01:20:50,945
I'll take care of it.
759
01:20:50,947 --> 01:20:52,446
Thank you, doctor.
760
01:21:12,367 --> 01:21:15,035
These are the new pills.
761
01:21:18,540 --> 01:21:20,374
They'll help you sleep.
762
01:21:23,812 --> 01:21:26,146
Have some more water.
763
01:21:57,112 --> 01:21:59,947
I don't know how to help you.
764
01:21:59,949 --> 01:22:02,182
I'm not your responsibility.
765
01:22:02,184 --> 01:22:05,819
Fania, I don't know
how to help you.
766
01:22:07,522 --> 01:22:10,524
Maybe I'll take you
to Tel Aviv
767
01:22:10,526 --> 01:22:13,527
to be with your sisters
and get some fresh air.
768
01:22:15,563 --> 01:22:19,266
Yes, fresh air.
769
01:22:28,109 --> 01:22:32,246
It's not reparations. They can't
keep what they stole from us.
770
01:22:32,248 --> 01:22:36,216
And we need the money
to absorb the survivors.
771
01:22:36,218 --> 01:22:38,218
What are
you talking about?
772
01:22:38,220 --> 01:22:42,623
It's blood money.
We can't sell them forgiveness.
773
01:22:48,496 --> 01:22:51,298
A few days in Tel Aviv
and you'll be good as new.
774
01:22:51,300 --> 01:22:54,601
No wonder you're miserable.
You live in Jerusalem.
775
01:22:54,603 --> 01:22:59,306
We're going to pamper you.
All you have to do is rest.
776
01:23:01,643 --> 01:23:03,544
Fania, maybe
you'll try some cake?
777
01:23:04,980 --> 01:23:07,081
I'm not hungry.
778
01:23:07,083 --> 01:23:08,949
You're not
eating at all.
779
01:23:08,951 --> 01:23:10,651
You sound like mother.
780
01:23:38,546 --> 01:23:40,681
The change of scenery
will do her good.
781
01:23:40,683 --> 01:23:45,119
She's from Jerusalem.
She doesn't even know what a beach is.
782
01:23:45,121 --> 01:23:47,988
Summer here
would be too much.
783
01:23:47,990 --> 01:23:50,257
It's true.
784
01:23:54,997 --> 01:23:57,398
<i>That night,
the Ayalon river</i>
785
01:23:57,400 --> 01:23:59,333
<i>overflowed the banks</i>
786
01:23:59,335 --> 01:24:04,104
<i>and flooded part of Tel Aviv.</i>
787
01:24:43,578 --> 01:24:49,249
<i>My mother grew up in an ethereal
culture of misted beauty</i>
788
01:24:49,251 --> 01:24:51,718
<i>whose wings
were finally dashed</i>
789
01:24:51,720 --> 01:24:57,491
<i>on the harsh Jerusalem stone,
hot and dusty.</i>
790
01:25:10,605 --> 01:25:15,375
<i>Twenty years after completing
her studies in Rovno,</i>
791
01:25:15,377 --> 01:25:17,444
<i>that romantic schoolgirl</i>
792
01:25:17,446 --> 01:25:21,715
<i>was confronted by daily life,</i>
793
01:25:21,717 --> 01:25:26,253
<i>the heat waves,
poverty, and violence,</i>
794
01:25:26,255 --> 01:25:29,123
<i>diapers, migraines,</i>
795
01:25:29,125 --> 01:25:32,559
<i>ration lines, marriage.</i>
796
01:25:32,561 --> 01:25:38,398
<i>The promise of her childhood
was trampled underfoot</i>
797
01:25:38,400 --> 01:25:41,635
<i>and ridiculed by the monotony
of life itself.</i>
798
01:26:08,096 --> 01:26:14,168
<i>Perhaps when life failed to
fill the promises of her youth,</i>
799
01:26:14,170 --> 01:26:17,337
<i>my mother began
to envision death</i>
800
01:26:17,339 --> 01:26:22,843
<i>as a protective,
soothing lover.</i>
801
01:27:29,844 --> 01:27:34,748
<i>My version of her story
would have ended differently.</i>
802
01:28:02,944 --> 01:28:05,712
<i>But it was her story to tell.</i>
803
01:28:15,957 --> 01:28:18,225
Is your father home?
804
01:28:18,227 --> 01:28:20,727
There's a call from Tel Aviv.
It's urgent, please!
805
01:29:17,385 --> 01:29:20,287
<i>A few years after
my mother's death,</i>
806
01:29:20,289 --> 01:29:25,459
<i>I left my father
and all of Jerusalem,</i>
807
01:29:25,461 --> 01:29:27,728
<i>changed my name,</i>
808
01:29:27,730 --> 01:29:30,597
<i>and went to
kibbutz Hulda on my own.</i>
809
01:29:39,640 --> 01:29:42,476
<i>My mother's dream,</i>
810
01:29:42,478 --> 01:29:44,644
<i>milk and honey,</i>
811
01:29:44,646 --> 01:29:48,014
<i>make the desert bloom,</i>
812
01:29:48,016 --> 01:29:49,483
<i>pioneer.</i>
813
01:29:49,485 --> 01:29:50,917
Hello.
814
01:29:50,919 --> 01:29:52,652
Amos?
815
01:29:56,057 --> 01:29:58,759
Hello!
816
01:30:00,828 --> 01:30:02,796
You're taller than me!
817
01:30:21,082 --> 01:30:23,583
Can you hand me
my suitcase, please?
818
01:30:25,887 --> 01:30:27,754
Thank you.
819
01:30:47,108 --> 01:30:50,610
<i>Though I forced myself to
learn how to drive a tractor...</i>
820
01:30:52,113 --> 01:30:54,881
<i>Lay irrigation hoses,</i>
821
01:30:54,883 --> 01:30:57,984
<i>hit the target
with a Czech rifle,</i>
822
01:30:57,986 --> 01:31:01,955
<i>I still did not manage
to transform myself.</i>
823
01:31:10,731 --> 01:31:15,135
<i>No one was taken
in by my suntan.</i>
824
01:31:17,004 --> 01:31:21,741
<i>They all knew perfectly well,
and I knew it myself,</i>
825
01:31:21,743 --> 01:31:25,145
<i>that even when
my skin was bronzed,</i>
826
01:31:25,147 --> 01:31:29,049
<i>I would still be pale
on the inside.</i>
827
01:31:31,452 --> 01:31:33,920
This is
my school now.
828
01:31:33,922 --> 01:31:37,457
<i>The only way to keep
a dream whole,</i>
829
01:31:37,459 --> 01:31:40,160
<i>hopeful and
not disappointing,</i>
830
01:31:40,162 --> 01:31:43,697
<i>is to never try
to live it out.</i>
831
01:31:43,699 --> 01:31:47,534
<i>A fulfilled dream
is a disappointing dream.</i>
832
01:31:49,170 --> 01:31:54,007
<i>This disappointment
is in the nature of dreams.</i>
833
01:32:19,667 --> 01:32:21,868
Mother
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