In the Negev Plains: A Play in Three Acts

Yigal Mossinson

1949

Abraham:

We only have a few minutes, and we have to decide whether the kibbutz should keep fighting, despite the army’s withdrawal, while we’re surrounded. It must be clear that any decision, one way or the other, entails grave responsibility.

Baruch:

From the military point of view, there’s no point in resisting. You know that the soldiers don’t…

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Yigal Mossinson

1917–1994

The novelist and playwright Yigal Mossinson was born in ‘Ein Ganim in pre-state Israel, and studied agriculture. From 1943 to 1949, he served in the Palmach and the Israeli Defense Forces. In 1954 he wrote the stage play Casablan, a work that explored the tensions experienced by immigrants from Morocco and other Mizrahi nations; the work became a landmark film. Mossinson lived in the United States from 1959 to 1965. In the 1950s, Mossinson turned to writing thriller stories for children, with the series Ḥasamba.

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