"I will trust you, I just want you to capture the spirit of the thing," said Micha (age 19). He has become an infantry soldier in the Fighting Pioneering Youth Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces. He does not like calling it the Fighting Pioneering Youth Brigade, and prefers to call it "the Nahal Brigade." It is not clear if he does not like it because he has no fight in him, or because he does not consider himself a pioneer. Perhaps it is because he does not see himself as a "youth." Who can tell with young people today?
Micha, looking worn for a 19 year old youth
Meanwhile, Dara has become a student in the prestigious Lautman Program at Tel Aviv University. She studies math, gender studies, literature, Bible, Rabbinic literature, philosophy, poetry and all sorts of other things.
Ella has grow a little hard of hearing and doesn't see quite as well as she used to, but she is still very sweet.
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