41 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, November 22, 1985 home," recalls Avraham Burg. "She protected my two sisters and me from my father's public shadow! Besides, my father al- ways preferred to keep his pub- lic and private lives completely apart. When the family get to- gether we don't talk politics. We have our fixed opinions and we respect that. Anyway when my father sees me, my wife Yael, who is a new immigrant from France, and our two children, he is more interested in playing with his grandchildren than talking politics." Avraham Burg is an interest- ing subject in his own right, possessing his father's wit, charm, sincerity, adept mind and intellectual prowess. A graduate of the Hebrew Univer- sity in African Studies he is an officer in the paratroopers. A terrible accident while doing army reserve duty in 1979 saw him hospitalized for two years and left him semi-paralyzed with sensory disfunctions to the spine and feet. Nevertheless, he volunteered to fight in Lebanon in 1982 because he wanted to be with his unit. While serving in Lebanon he underwent a deep change of out- look. "Until then I was not a political person," he recalls. "But in the Talmudic tradition I had always been a questioning person, and I began to question the direction Israel was going WAITING UNTIL NOW TO BUY A SOLAR HEATING SYSTEM WAS PRETTY SMART. WAITING ANY LONGER COULD BE VERY STUPID. in. Somewhere along the line I felt that Zionism had lost some of its tolerance." Becoming a leading activist in Peace Now, Avraham Burg wit- nessed some of that intolerance at its most violent. In 1983 he was standing next to his Peace Now colleague Emile Grunzweig when he was killed by a hand grenade. During 1984 Avraham Burg spent a year as the first Leader- ship Fellow of the New Israel Fund. 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