"You miss them so much, and
you think about them more than
if they were here he said.
He sometimes cries when he's
alone during the day.
"That's life he said. "I can
function normally, but some-
times it takes you down."

The Hunter

Shahar Dvash, 23, was 15 when
his uncle died, and already a sol-
dier coming home on vacation
when another terrorist took his
aunt's life.
As a member of Tzevet, Shahar
was part of a 15-member team of
soldiers who hunt down known
suicide bombers before they
reach their target.
He stayed home two extra days
for the funeral, then Went back to
work, but not before signing up
for another year of service.
"At that moment, I was sure I
was going to be a lieutenant:' he
said. "I was sure to be in Gaza
and command a team rather
than be part of one."
His team tracked down and
killed five targets.
"We get intelligence that a per-
son is going to blow themselves
up and we have to catch them:'
he said. "Sometimes, when we
kill them, we search the body and
see that they had bombs
strapped to them."
More than 90 percent of
would-be suicide bombings have
been prevented, he said. Stopped
by Tzevet or Plugah, the border
security, where his little sister
Tal, 20, works today.
She doesn't work the check-
points; she patrols the alls and
fences, he said. "You have to warn
them and [if they still try to
cross] shoot them."
Moshe says his children and
most young Israelis know the
reality.
"There is no choice he said.
"It's either us or them:' .
Theirs is an all-too-common
story in Israel; everyone there
has been personally touched by
terrorism.
And people deal with tragedy
differently — some by art, and
some by the gun. El

Harry Kirsbaum's e-mail address is
hkirsbaum@thejewishnews.corn.

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