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Hooded men arrive, dressed in green and black keffiyehs, fists raised but gazes cold like robots. Two pickup trucks appear — trucks that, since Oct. 7, have carried the taste of Shani Louk’s blood, the young woman, half-naked, taken like a small animal, defiled, and murdered. Now we see Eli, Or, and Ohad — the three hostages, or rather, the ghost men — emaciated and powerless, dragged by the robot-men to the platform.
In the stillness after the flames die down, in the silence where walls once held laughter and doorways framed years of coming and going, a unique kind of grief exists. For those who lose a home — especially as suddenly and violently as happens in wildfires — that loss feels both intangible and all-consuming. It is experienced as a disorienting rupture in time and space.
The site of the giving of the Torah was about to become a tourist-packed heap of litter and Lance Morrow would have none of it.
The longtime Time Magazine reporter, who passed away earlier this winter, penned a short piece that put the kibosh on plans Egypt was developing in 1990. As The New York Times recounted in his obituary, Morrow’s wife, visiting Cairo at the time, heard of the development of a cable car railway that would ferry folks up to the summit of the mount. “People were desperate to stop it, so I called Lance and asked what we can do about it, and he wrote an essay in two hours that stopped it dead,” she said.