Word: hadara
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...Hadara, for example, has managed to work her way toward feelings of accommodation largely on her own?though not without professional help. Zion Ben-Eli, a young therapist in Nahariya, treated Hadara for several months after the incident. In the beginning she clammed up entirely, would not go to school, would not leave the house. She expressed herself in art. First she painted a hand, which she called the "hand of fate." It is dark green, almost black, outlined in white with watery blue streaks running along the index finger. It looks more like a bay than a hand...
...little kids of the poem were the only children of Danny and Semadar Haran, for whom Hadara, now 15, used to babysit. Einat, 5, and Yael, 2, were both killed in April 1979, when terrorists entered Nahariya from the sea in a motor-powered dinghy and attacked a four-story apartment house. In one apartment they found Einat and her father, whom they took back to the beach. Danny they shot to death, and when Israeli forces approached, one of the terrorists picked up Einat by the feet and cracked open her head on a rock...
...Hadara's loss was more personal, and she embraced a deep silence. Yet she pulled herself out of it. She organized a peace conference in her high school between Arab and Jewish children. She called her conference "To Bring the Hearts Closer...
...girls are chatty and friendly, except when it comes to Arabs: "They have terrible eyes. Oh, terrible! And mustaches!" When you ask if they would ever consider marrying an Arab, they erupt like hens: "Are you crazy?" The attitudes of most Israeli children fall somewhere between the extremes of Hadara and those girls. The majority deal with their hatreds and fears on a case-by-case basis, and they are likely to shift their opinions according to the nearness of the danger...