Turn Off the Sun: A Novel

Written from the eyes of a soldier, this novel follows a 16-year-old boy “from outside” who comes to the Kibbutz Beth-Alpha boarding school as a 10th grade student in the school year 1945–46. Their class name was “Oren,” meaning pine tree, and they grew up in the shadow of acute political and military confrontations that preceded the War of Independence. When they were in the 12th grade they were called up to serve in the newly founded Golani Brigade as a machine gun platoon in Battalion 13...