Look For a Cigar

By Alex Ward

This is a short Story set in Israel, and tells a tale of how an embittered and battered soul can re-act when trapped and unrewarded. The main character needs to escape from The Israeli Defense Force but needs a pension fund to do so. So he sets about stealing it from his Arab neighbors.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Alex Ward
• Release date: Dec 12, 2011
• ISBN: 9781466064898

Alex Ward

Alex ward has spent his career in the IT industry. He lives in The South Hams in Devon and mainly writes on trains where he indulges in day dreaming and then finally finds a decent story line. The internet has given him the opportunity to indulge his passion for writing and exercising his imagination in what he hopes is an enjoyable story.

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Look for a Cigar

by Alex Ward

Published by Alex Ward at Smashwords

Electronic Adaptation by LesDenton.com

Copyright 2011 by Alex Ward

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, locations, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales, is entirely coincidental.

Table of Contents

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Prologue

A Kibbutz

There are formal definitions of a kibbutz, which explain how an agricultural community comes together for the greater good. I thought my experiences could shed more light on the institution.

I was eighteen years old, backpacking around Europe, and somehow ended up in Israel in late 1988 early 1989.

My first experience of a kibbutz was arriving at a large group of buildings in the middle of what appeared to me as desert, and asking an armed guard in jeans and a blue smock where I should go, as I was a new volunteer. I was given the route to where all the volunteers lived in shared cabins. It was 2 p.m. and no one was about. So I simply went to No.1 and knocked on the door. It was opened by a beautiful girl in a bikini. Happy days.

The idea is that you volunteer your time to work on the kibbutz, mainly agricultural work. In my time, there was a large dairy, a fish farm, and fields growing fruit,