The printer calls to ask about the photographs in the book I’m printing for the kids about the Jewish presence in Egypt. Turns out I am not as good a photographer as I had thought, and there was much to remove and to discuss. Although I have known him for 40 years, ever since we started printing arc with him, we have never had a conversation – and it began this way. “You know, I was in Egypt…in 1973…” It took me a minute to pick up on the significance of the date… When he added: “for 8 months… about a hundred kilometers from Cairo…” I began to realize that we were at war then, and as he went on, describing the generals on opposite sites who became friends, I realized there was another chapter in the Egypt-Israel book. I wouldn’t begin to write it yet – I haven’t even begun to explore the war at Megiddo that according to the scribes of Thutmose III wiped out the seed of Israel. There is so much more to learn!
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