 Over the course of the book, he overcomes this, due to the loss of his Dutch Christian fiancée, a paediatrician who is killed while attending a sick kibbutznik child during a visit to Israel.The incident leads him to immigrate to Israel and become a "kibbutznik" himself and join the Israeli paratroopers, in exploring the Jewish identity that had been denied to him throughout his life by his family's assimilation while being externally imposed on him.He is shown as participating in the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War, and dies during the rescue of Jewish hostages from Uganda.