A Tale of Arab-Jewish Friendship
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
46—Friday, July 24, 1970
How Uzi Caught The Bandits
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black tents beyond our fields. He
was miserable and unhappy, so he
had decided to run away and re-
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turn to his family who lived across
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the Jordan River. But the lot of a
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through my mind. Where on earth that very day, he had tried to run
The boys ran towards Uzi. He
away
again only to be overcome
had I seen this Arab before?
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was sitting in the center of the
by his wounds.
"What's your name?" I asked.
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main lawn; they encircled him,
"Then
you came and found me,"
"Ahmed. Ahmed Ben Yousouf."
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"Ahmed!" I shouted, not recog- Ahmed ended his grim story. "I
"Come on, Uzi, tell us how you
_ voice. "Ahmed! It's can't understand why you are so
nizing my_21_, vn
captured the bandits."
me, Uzi! Don't you remember me?" kind to me."
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Uzi sat quietly among the young
Indeed, children, it was Minted.
We had no reply for him. That
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Ahmed
is,
but
the
fellows
of
my
act
upon it. That evening we were
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Uzi had driven off a group of
age group remember him well. all glad that we had.
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bandits who had sneaked into the
Marilyn.
Days went by. We spent many
This is his story.
kibutz cowshed. There were many
At the time, we were youngsters hours with Ahmed. We brought
different stories about what had
FOR A MAID IN A JIFFI
ourselves. There were six of us in him food, changed the dressings on
happened in the kibutz; Uzi him-
the last grade of school. We were his wounds and looked after him
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self tried to shrug the whole thing
few, and often used to roam in the devotedly. But his condition seem-
Transportation provided—most sup-
off.
vicinity of the kibutz together. ed to grow worse; daily he was
plies furnished. Insured, screened,
"What is there to tell?" he asked.
dependable service.
During one of our hikes we dis- weaker and more feverish. One
Call any day COO a.m. to 9 p.m.
"I simply fired a few shots and
covered a wounded Arab boy lying morning he seemed to be burning
they
ran.
That's
all."
in a ditch by the wayside, moaning up with fever. We were very wor-
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ried about him and, after consult-
and bleeding.
But the children did not give up
The first thing we did was to run ing our teacher, we decided to take
so easily.
frantically in the direction of the him to the sick bay of the kibutz.
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"Come on, Uzi! Please, tell us."
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Ahmed bade us farewell and be-
Rabbi Silverman comments on entire contents of our first-aid box,
devotions and the theology of the the early anti-Zionist stand of Re- and carefully cleaned and dressed gan walking slowly downhill.
movement's leaders.
his
wounds.
"Wait, Ahmed," cried Yael, run-
form Judaism which was changed
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There are scores of questions in 1937 by resolution at the Colum-
We spent the whole first evening ning after him. I ran beside her.
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Ahmed had not forgotten us.
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By DEVORAH OMER
(This story is from the collection
"The Dog That Flew and other Fav-
orite Stories From Israel." edited by
Uriel Ofek and published by Sabra
Books—Funk & Wagnalls. Copyright
1970, Sabra Books, Distributed by the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency.)
it
happened. At about one o'clock in
the morning we caught a bandit
who had entered the kibutz through
our barbed wire fence. He was a
young Arab, about my own age. He
wore rubber-soled shoes and held a
machine-gun.
The Arab gave himself up by
walking towards our watchmen
with his hands over his head, as a
sign of surrender. We took his
weapons and locked him up in the
guard room, the one with the
barred window. When I started to
leave the room, he called out,
"Havajah!" (Mister!)
I turned back towards him, and
to my amazement he began to
speak in perfect Hebrew: "Hava-
jah! There is something very im-
portant I must tell you."
The whole thing seemed very
strange to me. I looked at him and
replied, "Fine—go ahead."
"Later tonight bandits from Jor-
dan plan to steal your herd," he
said.
"Who are you? Why are you tell-
ing me all this?" I asked in sur-
prise.
"I am one of the gang and I
have come to warn you."
"Oh! Now I understand. You
want money," I said. He seemed
offended.
"I don't want a thing from you,"
he said roughly.
"In that case, what is it you're
after?" I asked, feeling that I was
beginning to lose my temper.
"Havajah! Once, when I was a
child, the members of this kibutz
saved my life. I feel that I must
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