Mikhail Rosen - Jewish happiness in Israel

They returned for the «green line» in the evening on armored jeeps. The road passed next to the camps of Palestinian refugees, existing here since the War of Independence.

Narrow streets, small houses, a total lack of greenery, garbage heaps around these houses. Ditch with sewage in the middle of the street spread a strong stench in the hot air. The donkey, laden with bags, was walking along the dusty road.

A dirty boy of about eight to ten drove a donkey. When the jeep was beside with the boy, the boy raised his hand with two fingers spread out and shouted: «Ipah el jehudi! Ipah el jehudi!»

The soldier, the Moroccan Jew who was sitting in a car next to Olga, translated the boy’s words: «degenerate boy creams: Jew need to be cat!» This cry Olga remembered for a long time.

Another week passed. Said again appeared in Olge’s apartment.

Smiling, he handed Olga a small box, in which lay a gold bracelet with an artfully executed miniature image of «Fatima’s hand.»

After dinner Said pulled out a cigarette from a leather cigarette case, with a strange, poisonous-green tobacco, and handed it to Olga: «Try it, my Fatima! This is a real kaif!»

Olga often encountered drug addicts in the service. She was afraid of drugs, but seeing as happy Said when he smokes these cigarettes, she decided to try.

She felt nausea at first, but then she felt cheerful and easy. Everything around was filled with a kind of fog. In the fog floated figure Said. He leaned over her, and she felt the sweetness of his kisses.

Said often brought these strange cigarettes with him. Once he brought with him a small suitcase. In such suitcases, usually locksmiths and electricians carry their tools. Said and Olga began to smoke. Again, the mist floated in front of the girl’s eyes. Said disappeared, then appeared again. She heard his voice, as if from a distance: «We had a fight in Nazareth. The police suspect me. I need to disappear for a few days.» Olga immediately answered: «What’s the problem? Live with me!»

Said kissed her so much that she felt a taste of blood in her mouth: «The Arab does not make a beloved woman a problem! It is better to live in a good hotel. They will not look for me there.»

– You do not know? Do the hotels carefully check the documents? – Olga asked in surprise. Said answered quickly, – We will in hotel without problems, if you show your police ID!

Despite the fog in her head, Olga had an alarming thought: «How does he know that I have a police certificate? I never told him about it!» Olga had the police certificate. She was the sergeant of the reserve police. Olga in the morning, tried to remember when Said left. Olga seemed that he left without his locksmith suitcase.

«Said probably forgot the suitcase» – she thought. Olga looked around. The suitcase was nowhere to be found.

Olga was struck by the fact that the door that led from the kitchen to the pantry was not locked. Olga always locked this door. From this pantry can easily get straight to the street. The old things of the Boris family lay in the pantry.

The clock was shown to five minutes to six. The bus will not wait. At work, she forgot about the door and suitcase.

They rented a room in the «Panorama» Hotel in a few days.

The room was «super-luxury». The room had soft carpets, wide sofas, on the walls of a picture in a gilded framework, air-conditioned air and a huge refrigerator full of various drinks. This room was worth more than a hundred dollars a day. Said, put in Olga’s the police certificate of a pack of green banknote.

Olga liked most of all the bathroom and white whirlpool. The walls and ceiling of the bathroom consisted of illuminated mirrors. In these mirrors, the naked bodies of the bathing could be seen in all directions. The swarthy, muscular body of Said was reflected in mirrors in all male beauty.

They, after bathing, wearing soft terry dressing gowns on bare bodies, approached a huge window that occupied almost the entire wall of the bedroom.

Before them, from the height of the fifteenth floor, the panorama of the evening Tel Aviv flooded with electric light opened. The colorful panorama stretched from the old lighthouse to the high-altitude pipes of the Reading power station. A fiery river of thousands of automobile headlights flowed along the streets along skyscrapers and squares.

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Intifada – Revolt of the people (Arabic)

Stahim – the occupied territories (Hebrew).

«Living bombs-suicide bombers» – suicides.

Khan Yunes – The city in the Gaza Strip.

Nazareth is an Arab town in the territory of Israel.