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and people were killed and there was
uncertainty then too. Now at least we
see Israelis in their home and
Lebanese in their home."

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A Mother's Relief

For parents of soldiers like 51-year-
old Elisheva Lahav of Jerusalem, the
redeployment has released them from
a life of perpetual tension.
While her son Yair did his stint of
duty in Lebanon, Lahav always kept
her ear glued to the radio for news
reports every 30 minutes. At night,
she would fall into an exhausted sleep.
Her oldest son also served in a
combat unit in Lebanon and was in
a skirmish with Hezbollah guerillas
where only split-second timing
saved his life.
Last month, Yair was among the
first soldiers redeployed in the weeks
prior to the final withdrawal and,
though he is still patrolling the north-
ern border from Israeli territory,
Lahav breathes a bit easier.
"I just definitely feel relief. It is
more important to save a life than it
is to save face — especially when it's
my own child's life which is being
saved," she said. "There is a sense of
uncertainty, but I think it was a brave
move."
Still, she said, the world will be
watching and maybe that will keep
the Hezbollah in check.
"I feel very, very bad for the peo-
pleliving in the north, though." She
continued, "Their lives are more
uncertain than ours right now."

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Escaping The Past

As Moti Avraham watched the sol-
diers return home on May 18, he
could not help but think of his broth-
er, Nahum, who was 20 when he was
killed in the 1982 war.
"Of course, I wouldn't have wanted
my brother to die in that way and
certainly not at such a young age,"
said Avraham, 42, the owner of a
cramped mini-market in Kiryat
Shemona. "But my brother did what
needed to be done at that time."
Now, he said, it is time for quiet,
for creating a climate where every-
body can at last rest from the past.
"The state decided to go to war and
the decisions were based on real rea-
sons — but the situation in Lebanon
over the past few years became such
that the soldiers there were not
defending anyone. I think that at this
stage the withdrawal was necessary."

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