The text describes Joel's experiences with the Sadovski family in Jerusalem's Beit Hakerem neighborhood during the 1980s. Joel, who had always admired Morris Sadovski, a wealthy French investor, and his son Amir, finds himself entangled in the local community’s complex social dynamics. 

This story is about an Arab writer who, while on his way to meet a widow in Nablus to discuss turning her extraordinary life into a novel, faces the harsh reality of life under the Arab-Israeli conflict. As he navigates the oppressive atmosphere of multiple Israeli army checkpoints, he attempts to use his knowledge of the Israeli author Etgar Keret to avoid humiliation and violence from the soldiers.

In 1999, the narrator's father moved to a studio apartment in Bat Yam to focus on writing a novel about their family's history, only to abandon the project months later. During this period, the narrator recalls a conversation between their parents about their legacies, with the father dreaming of writing a great Israeli novel, and the mother believing her work in professional magazines would ensure her name lived on.

Discover a short story that gives a bit of perspective about what Israelis live on a day to day basis.

The story follows an Arab student on a bus ride from Jaffa to Jerusalem, absorbed in his thoughts and observations. He meticulously records mundane details in his notepad, but his mind drifts into dark, imaginative scenarios, envisioning a terrorist attack on a nearby bus filled with soldiers.

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