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he refused to heed everyone's advice and
my mother's pleading and he went, as
he did every other day, to his small fac-
tory situated in the heart of Arab Jaffa.
As predicted, there was Arab rioting
in protest of the Jewish state; my father's
t was the
factory was burned to the ground and
evening of
he, in shock and wounded, was helped
Nov. 29,
by a loyal Arab employee who took him
1947. I was
to his own house, tended to his wounds
age 8. I was aware that something
as best he could and the following
important was about to happen, but
morning smuggled him back to safety.
only in the following years did I realize
The just-born Israel already was
the full significance of the event.
engulfed in a life-and-death war,
Our neighbors, friend and foe
which was to determine whether
alike, were all gathered in our
there would or would not be
little apartment in the house
a Jewish state after all. Since
on 97 Herzl St. in Tel Aviv,
our house bordered on
the house which my
Arab Jaffa, we were
father built in 1935
forced to abandon it
when my sister Shula,
and find safety in a
his first child, was
rented wooden shack
born. All ears were
in the Sharon for the
glued to the radio,
duration of the war.
pencils were in hand,
My father wouldn't
each person was
leave
his home, the
guessing, nervously
one
he
so loved and
speculating as to the
which
was
willed to his
outcome of the vote,
six
grandchildren
upon c
which was about to
his
death.
Besides,
he
take place in the United
was named commander
Nations General Assem-
of
civil defense; his job
bly in New York. It was
was
to make sure all win-
way past midnight and I
dows
were
blacked out and all
could no longer hold out
residents
were
in the shelter
against sleep as hard as I
as
soon
as
the
all-too-famil-
tried. I was rudely awak-
Rachel Can aan-Kapen iar alarm sounded.
ened by thunderous
with her o lder sister,
After the War for Inde-
applause and shouts of
Shula, a nd their
pendence,
as it was justifi-
mazel toy and l'chayim and
father, Yos of Garber,
ably
named,
we returned to
shehecheyanu. Then my
on Mount Scopus in
our
bullet-riddled
home.
father, a person not known
19 45.
Later,
we
were
proud
specta-
to be sentimental or affec-
tors
in
an
emotional
cere-
tionate, addressed me in a
mony in Tel Aviv city hall where my
loving and endearing manner and with
tears welling in his eyes. " Yesh lanu med- father and some of his comrades
received commendation for loyal and
inah, we have a state." He planted a big
dedicated service during the war. I can
kiss on my forehead.
well remember my father with his khaki
Next came that unforgettable Friday
uniforms, his green armband with the
of May 14, 1948, when David Ben-
big letters MA (for Mishmar Ezrahi —
Gurion was called to read the declara-
civil defense in Hebrew) his green hel-
tion of independence of the State of
met and his whistle as he rushed out of
Israel in the old museum of Tel Aviv.
the house as soon as there was trouble
The following day, the British officially
in the air, literally.
terminated their rule in Palestine and
And now, as Israel celebrates its 50th
the State of Israel was reborn after 2,000
birthday,
I wonder how he, my mother
years of the Jewish people being state-
and
the
rest
of the wonderful genera-
less.
don
of
founders
would feel in view of a
There was great rejoicing in the
State
of
Israel,
which
falls short of their
streets, throngs of people dancing in
vision
and
expectations.
spontaneity. For us, however, the general
Well, I still believe that they would
happiness was dampened by deep con-
rejoice
with their children, grandchil-
cern for the fate of my father. Deeply
dren
and
great-grandchildren at the
conscientious as he was, unafraid to the
great
miracle
that would not be if not
point of naivete and not stubbornness,
for them. May their memory be
Rachel Canaan Kapen is a West
blessed. ❑
Bloomfield resident.

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