“Whoever fights smartest is the one who wins,” I countered
I had met with the Rosenbergs to discuss their son Yechezkel, not because he had a mental illness, but because he was part of the “Hilltop Youth” movement and his parents were concerned that he was going to get into some serious trouble. They were right to worry: I’d just extricated him from a violent arrest for pulling down a Hamas flag in an Arab village where my colleague and I happened to be visiting the kevarim of Calev Ben Yefuneh and Yehoshua Bin Nun.
Part III
I helped pull Yechezkel up, took him by the arm, and dusted him off. It seemed like he’d sprained his ankle in the tussle, as he could barely stand, but there was no time for hobbling. Before the soldiers who had tackled him had any time to start asking questions, we sped away.
I pushed my way through and yelled, “Baruch Hashem you found him!”
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had met with the Rosenbergs to discuss their son Yechezkel, not because he had a mental illness, but because he was part of “the hilltop youth” movement. His parents were concerned that he was going to get into more serious trouble than getting beat up by the Border Police for putting up caravans on the hills of the Shomron. And they were right to worry. Part II
I had discussed an idea with Mr. Rosenberg to perhaps have his son meet with Avi, a more practical and less-intense settler figure who has a hilltop farm and is a mentor to many boys like Yechezkel.
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