My father’s war
\”This is what we grew up praying for and dreaming of,\” my father told me in a recent conversation, \”so I did not need to read any further.\” Nessim Bouskila made his way to the headquarters of the Jewish Agency in Paris, where he found more than 400 young men and women already lined up, eagerly awaiting the \”privilege,\” as Papa worded it, to help defend Israel.