“T he Papuans admire your people” said Joe. “The Israeli flag is the second-best-selling flag in my country second only to our own flag.”

“How did they ever even hear of us?” Itzik wondered.

“I heard about the people of Israel when I was still in elementary school.”

The children of Yango Bay went to school only occasionally. It was far away and they went when there was transportation — a ferry that sailed along the river stopping by the various villages to pick up children from the entire region and dropping them off near the school.