Plowing ahead in wartime Israel. Born 1948. Water then — rationed. Food stamps issued for meals. To honor a new incoming VIP, an Arab chieftain in the Negev gave his visitor the eye of a sheep. This, word for word, is from life there now. My reporting was just told by a Jerusalem family to their relatives who live here. They then told it, word for word, to me. “We run from our homes to take shelter from bombs raining down around us, many times, often eight times in one night. Time doesn’t