The Unmaking of Israel
“Across the street is the stone-faced building where Israeli novelist Amos Oz grew up in a small ground-floor apartment.Back then, in the 1940s, Kerem Avraham was home to “petty clerks, small retailers, bank tellers or cinema ticketsellers, schoolteachers or dispensers of private lessons,” as Oz writes in his memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness. They observed the last vestiges of Judaism—lighting Sabbath candles on Friday night, attending services on Yom Kippur—and avidly argued the fine points ...of secular Zionist ideology.While I stand on the street, a flock of teenage girls walks by, all with the pale complexions of indoor lives. The girls are dressed in blue blouses buttoned to the neck, pleated skirts, and high socks, so that no skin besides their faces and hands shows. Small boys—the age that Amos Oz was when his secular father chose an Orthodox Zionist school for his son because religion was dying anyway—are coming home, carrying book bags heavy with religious texts. A family passes, the husband in a circular, flat-topped black hat, his wife pushing a stroller, three more children younger than age six walking with them.MoreLess
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