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Hillel Halkin
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11-29-1996
Hillel Halkin's Saga of Murder and Revenge in a Quiet Israeli Town.

By HILLEL HALKIN

Sometimes, when I was tired of being asked how we came to live in Zichron, I gave as the reasons a brown dog, a full moon and two bottles of local white wine. If it wasn't the whole truth, you couldn't say it was none of it. And the truth was not something I had a firm grip on. I was looking for a piece of it having to do with a woman who had been murdered either 50 years before or recently in my own imagination, and I wasn't at all sure which.

We arrived in Israel, my wife and I, in 1970, intending to live in Jerusalem. Or rather outside it, on an acre of stony land, with a ...

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