Haim
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When American-born Haim Watzman immigrated to Israel, he was, drafted into the army and, after eighteen months of compulsory service, was assigned to Company C, the reserve infantry unit that would define the next twenty years of his life. From 1984 until 2002, for at least a month a year, Watzman, who had never aspired to military adventure, was a soldier.
Watzman was a soldier as he adjusted to his new country, raised his children, and pursued...
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The Jordan Rift Valley, stretching from the Red Sea to Lebanon was, ripped open millions of years ago by vast forces within the earth. This geological object has also been a part of human history ever since early humans used it as a path in their journey out of Africa. And, for a quarter of a century it has been part of the biography of Israeli writer Haim Watzman.
In the autumn of 2004, as his country was, riven by a fierce debate over its borders,...