A Soldier’s Tale https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/uncategorized/2013/10/a-soldiers-tale/

October 23, 2013 | Yossi Klein Halevi
About the author: Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is author of the New York Times bestseller Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor, and Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist, which tells the story of his involvement in the Soviet Jewry movement.

The young men sang “Legend of the Lawn,” about teenage love: “There’s a pile of hevreh [mates] on the grass.” Someone suggested a post-Yom Kippur-war version: “There’s a pile of grass on the hevreh.” (Book extract.)

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