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working undercover for
years together and sometimes experience trumps rank, especially in the field.
Your little spat let me approach the balcony and overhear you. That's bad
tradecraft. I may be just the equivalent of an IDF Sergeant, but I want to
live. Got it?"
    Zak started to speak, but became tongue-tied and a little
overwhelmed. Not like me to let emotions run wild. His personal feelings could
have endangered the whole team. Yet, something was opening up inside him. He
wanted to recount the feelings that had been bubbling up inside him for the
first time since his first wife's sudden death five years earlier, but he knew
better.
    Zak was smitten that day, some months earlier, when he had
first seen Kefira. Sarah went on speaking to him, but he was drifting back in
time in his mind's eye. His behavior was totally out of character and it
surprised Sarah.
    She knew Zak bottled up his emotions and had never really
accepted the death of his parents. Then, years later, his wife's murder had
almost crippled him emotionally. He was far from even contemplating closure,
and all of his relationships over the last five years and for much of his life
had been governed by these two poignant sore spots. Kefira's arrival on the scene
somehow gave him no options. Her presence near him made him face up to reality,
but their shared operation obliged him to control himself.

SOME
MONTHS EARLIER
    November 2011
    Orphaned at a young age, Kefira
involuntarily became an instrument, Mossad's contrivance. Yochana, a Mossad
Director, orchestrated Kefira's indoctrination into HaMossad as part of a
program for the development of deep-cover agents, sleepers. The Director's
incentive for her actions was a childhood friendship with the orphaned girl's
mother. Yochana's HaMossad Department, which was responsible for intelligence
collection and covert operations that allegedly included targeted killings and
paramilitary activities beyond Israel's borders, devised the spear or
'Vanguard' agent development program. In its role as the protector of Jewish
communities worldwide, HaMossad is tasked with bringing Jews to Israel from
countries where official Aliyah or Zionist agencies are forbidden. It is one of
the main entities in the Israeli Intelligence Community, along with Aman
(Military Intelligence) and Shin Bet (Internal Security).
    Yochana, who reported directly to the Prime Minister,
investigated the premature death of Kefira's parents at the Israeli Embassy in
Argentina when the child was fourteen. When Yochana concluded that Kefira was,
in fact, the daughter of her best friend from Yochana's early days, she acted
on her legal responsibilities by rescuing Kefira from the tragedy of her
parent's untimely death at the hands of a terrorist bomber. Yochana's control
of the young girl included enrolling Kefira in a program of clandestine agent
development. This act was the beginning of a long-term plan to make Kefira the
next Director of all of Mossad. It was the vicarious recognition of Yochana's
unrealized personal ambition.
    Sam and Zak, who behaved as though they were stepfather and
stepson, were standing in the open doorway at the back of a large amphitheatre,
looking at the stage at the bottom of the room. They were focused on a
stunning, young woman who was herself positioned on the stage, staring up at
the two men. Remarking on the intensity of energy unexplainably connecting Zak
and Kefira, even over the 20 meters between them, Sam, also a Director of
HaMossad, spoke up. Kefira exuded a hint of Botticelli, and a presence
reminiscent of Brigitte Bardot. She was exquisitely wrapped in olive skin, but
her soft flesh disguised underlying muscle tension.
    "Zak, have you ever read Aesop?"
    "Fables. You know better Sam," answered Zak.
    "Anyway, take your eyes off her and remember Aesop: He
goes to great lengths to prove that appearances can be deceiving."
    "I have to know her name. How old is she?"
    "Your age, same background, but she's a goy