At first, Naama sees them as tanks deploying for combat but, when Etti’s car catches up with them, they resolve into trees. Acacias with crowns of dark green leaves, convoluted and crinkly and furrowed like the nets that soldiers wear over their helmets to camouflage themselves in the scrubland where they train and fight.
Dear readers,
“Naama” is the latest episode in my Oct. 7 war epic.
You may remember Naama from “In the Rubble.” Now she’s a stowaway in the Etti Badihi’s car, heading south toward Gaza.
The circle of acacias that Naama thinks are soldiers is called a liman, a method used to concentrate scarce rainwater to enable groves of trees to grow in the middle of the desert.
Besorot tovot,
Haim