A Family of Redheads

And Orange Soup (Marak Katom), for the Bibas family

I’ve been traveling this week in the United States, carrying the pain of Yarden Bibas with me as I check in and out of hotels, airports, and my own emotions.

Like many of us, I watched from afar as the nation lined the roads for the funeral procession of Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir, the devastating conclusion to the horrific cycle of their abduction, captivity, murder, and eventual tragic return with a novel’s worth of macabre elements all its own.