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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/14/world/middleeast/14grossman.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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Israeli Author’s Son, 20, Is Killed in Battle
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By NOGA TARNOPOLSKY
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Published: August 14, 2006
JERUSALEM, Aug. 13 — The 20-year-old son of David Grossman, one of the nation’s most prominent writers and peace advocates, was killed Saturday in fighting in Lebanon.
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Pummeling the Heart of Hezbollah Aid Convoy in Lebanon More Multimedia: Israel | Lebanon | Middle East The son, Staff Sgt. Uri Grossman, was serving in a tank unit. He was one of 24 Israeli soldiers killed in fierce clashes with Hezbollah on Saturday.
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David Grossman, 52, slight and soft-spoken, is often described as the anguished conscience of Israel. He is the author of best-selling novels including as “The Smile of the Lamb” and “See Under: LOVE” and the book-length political treatise “The Yellow Wind,” about Israel’s occupation of the West Bank.
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Throughout Israel’s first war in Lebanon, from 1982 to 2000, and during the first intifada in the late 1980’s, Mr. Grossman and his wife, Michal Grossman, were frequent participants in antiwar rallies and demonstrations. Often they were accompanied by their two young sons, Yonatan and Uri.
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Occasionally, said Galia Golan, a founder of Peace Now, David Grossman would declare a “writing strike” and disappear to work on one of his novels or books of essays. “But even then, if something important came up, if olive trees being uprooted or if anything happened in Hebron, he was always, always there,” she said.
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Last Thursday, David Grossman joined two other titans of Israeli letters, Amos Oz and A. B. Yehoshua, to proclaim their opposition to continuing the war in Lebanon.
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On Aug. 6, the three released a letter they had written calling for an immediate cease-fire.
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“We supported Israel’s right, when faced with ongoing missile attacks upon its civilian population, to embark upon this war,” said Nissim Kalderon, a literature professor who signed the appeal. “But once Lebanon announced its seven-point plan, including the deployment of Lebanese soldiers in the south, we saw no point in continuing a military campaign, and no point in endangering more soldiers’ lives.”
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Then, Mr. Kalderon said, “the very thing we most feared came to be.”
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Yonatan Grossman, recently released from an armored tank unit, was traveling in Colombia on Sunday and could not be located immediately. So, following Israeli custom, the death was not announced publicly until Sunday night.
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Beneath that formal silence, however, the news floated among the friends of one of Israel’s most reserved celebrities.
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As he left the Grossman home on Sunday, Mr. Yehoshua said: “David is like my younger brother. For some days now I’ve been worried about Uri and calling daily, and this morning, when I called to ask how he is, Michal simply said, ‘He was killed.’ ’’
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Then Mr. Yehoshua stopped, no longer able to speak.
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Mr. Oz, reached at his home, asked to be allowed “to mourn in silence.”
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Menachem Brinker, a literary philosopher, described “The Yellow Wind” as “the worst indictment produced by an Israeli Zionist writer against the occupation, commensurate with Norman Mailer’s ‘Armies of the Night’ in terms of its importance.”
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In “The Yellow Wind,” written when Uri was about a year old, David Grossman wrote: “Into what reality are children to be educated? How fuzzy can the lesson I give to my sons be? Maybe I do them an injustice when I bring them up with certain values and do not prepare them for the brutal life we live here?”
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