Abraham's Bloodline

Growing up in a quit English town in the Midlands, I knew very little about the Jews or Judaism.

Israel was just a country somewhere in the Middle East. It was not until the six-day war erupted in 1967, that I learned it was a Jewish Hoemland. I had seen documentaries on television showing the horrific treatment of Jews by the Nazis and the tracit cooperation of other countries that if not aiding the Germans in the genocide stood by and watched the slaughter.

In 1971, while living in London, I met my Israeli wife and went to live in Israel. There, I converted to Judaism which may have caused Egypt and Syria to invade the country In all, I spent five years living in Israel and got to know the country and the people extremely well. My children and grandchildren are all Jewish and I am enormously proud of them.

I started writing this book when I was working at Tel Aviv University and on my return to Australia after three-year absence forgot about it for several years. It was not until I was doing a writing course in Mebourne that I revived it again. Most of the incident mentioned in the book are based on fact but have been altered by me to fit the story. I hope you get as much enjoyment reading it as I did writing it.

Miriam a survivor of the Holocaust. She flees Warsaw and joins the Jewish Partisans. At war's end, Miriam escapes to Palestine where she meets Cobi.

Cobi is a native-born Palestinian who served in the British Army. Returning home, he was made an officer with the Palmach in the War of Independence against the Arabs. In the bitter fighting for Jerusalem, Cobi confronts his childhood friend Yusuf, who is an officer in the Arab Legion, with unexpected results. Cobi and Miriam marry and have two children, Daniel and Ronen. Cobi is made the Ambassador to Australia where the boys grow up.

Returning to Israel as young men they do their military service, Daniel enters the air force and Ronen joins a special forces unit. They participate in the Yom Kippur war. Daniel carries out missions on the Suez front trying to stem the Egyptian Army in their advance. Meanwhile, Ronen is fighting the Syrian Army in the Golan Heights.

After many skirmishes with the enemy, Ronen's group is tasked with rescuing Israeli pilots including Daniel shot down and captured by the Syrians.

In the ensuing battle, both are seriously wounded.

But the fight goes on...