Ask 67-year-old Shai Hermesh why he moved to Kfar Aza — a kibbutz so poor in the 1960s that when the food wagon arrived each evening, he had to choose between half a boiled egg or a slice of cheese — and he answers proudly with a single word.
“Zionism,” he says.
For the next six decades, his life traced the contours of the Zionist enterprise in Israel, both idyllic and martial. He fought as a paratrooper in the 1967 and 1973 wars, served two terms in parliament, and helped build the kibbutz from an aspiring socialist utopia to a thriving, middle-class village.
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