Lashon Aish – Tongue of Fire – Israel at War

Courage - Love - Tears - The battle for Israel’s right to exist in freedom and peace.

By: Barbara Goldscheider

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins

Publisher's summary

Lashon Aish – Tongue of Fire – Israel at War is a historical novel based on actual events that occurred in Israel between 1973 to 1975 including war, terrorism and counter-terrorism.

The novel opens on the eve of the return of Israeli prisoners-of-war from Syria’s notorious Al Maza prison after eight months of captivity. The protagonist, Rafi Haas, is flown back to Israel with other POWs on a Swiss aircraft via an undisclosed NATO base on Saturday, June 1, 1974.

The author includes footnotes of the actual events which are woven into this historical novel.

After convalescing, Rafi “volunteers” for Sayeret Mat’kal, an elite commando force attached to the Israel Defense Force’s (IDF) General Staff. Rafi becomes second-in-command, recruiting and honing this unit into a counter-terrorist and hostage rescue force par non, together with the enigmatic Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Avi Levy. They carry out a dangerous mission in Beirut, assassinating three leaders of Black September, while other IDF units demolish the headquarters of the terrorist leader, Nayef Hawatmeh, in retaliation for the 1972 Munich Massacre and the 1974 Ma’alot Massacre of Israeli teenagers on the 26th anniversary of Israel’s independence.

Lashon Aish – Tongue of Fire – Israel at War shows how these searing events affect the characters in the novel, the changes they undergo, and the resilience they display. While this is the story of three dedicated officers of the IDF, and their need to protect and defend their people no matter the personal cost to them, it is also the story of the women who love them, through the most trying years of Israel’s existence.

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The Yom Kippur War Israel confronted on Saturday, October 6, 1973, was a two-pronged surprise attack by Syria and Egypt. Fifty years later, on Saturday, October 7, 2023, the Israeli nation was startled by another invasion. The courage and strength of the protagonists in this novel is the same courage and strength that Israel exhibits at this historic moment to battle for the right to exist in freedom and peace.