Oded came to Nir Oz in 1957, when he was 17, as one of its founders. He belonged to Hashomer Hatzair, a movement most easily defined by the credo on the masthead of the now-defunct daily newspaper of ...

Sinai has always been a place of such paradox ... the tribal people blended so well into the landscape that they almost seemed a natural feature, like dunes trodden by conquerors.