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Hes also, it seems, ripe for reinvention.

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Throughout, there remains an air of trauma around Yoav.

When they give him a plastic bag, he refers to it as a bag for cadavers.

He recalls his admiration as a child for Hector, the legendary warrior of Troy.

Attaching my future to Israel would be a disaster, he recalled thinking, in a 2014BombMagazine interview.

I felt strangled by this place.

Characters sometimes speak in non sequiturs, break into dances, or start fights.

(When the young man finally looks up, he sees Notre-Dame.)

Yaron might be Yoavs diametrical opposite, but in truth, the two men represent something fundamental.

Our sense of being in the world is lifes most infernal chicken-and-egg question.

What came first, the person or the persona?