Sarah 4

Next morning Naomi comes rushing in, waving around a newspaper she found discarded by the bus stop. Round here, no one bothers with the paper, mostly because they can't read it well. Also, they just don't care about current events, after all they're draft exempt, let secular Israelis worry about the news.
It's thick, got a dozen pages on the mega riot in Ramallah last night. Seems a couple hundred wandering drunken yeshiva students came around a corner. What did they find? A huge crowd of Palestinians rioting, trashing the Army Induction Center. And, since they hate seculars even more than they hate Palestinians, they pitched right in. And now there's 54 million shekels estimated damage and 1,500 people being held in jail.
In all of this, there is only one person dead, one of the rioting yeshiva students. Talk about a small miracle!
Now it doesn't take too much savvy to guess what'll happen. The Palestinians will have a very difficult time in jail. As for the yeshiva students, charges will mysteriously disappear. But along with this vanishing act, they can kiss goodbye to draft exemptions. Oh yes, anyone who is already married will get the truncated four month tour, really only basic training. Anyone still single gets the full meal deal, three years in the IDF. That'll teach those clowns. Talk about justice. And that Yakob, well uh that means uh oh no.
Naomi points, "looky here. Name of the deceased. Don't suppose there is more than one Yakob Kirchner at Ramallah Colony Yeshiva?"
I groan loudly. In two weeks the IDF is gonna come looking for me. Even before I'm married, I'm already a widow.