GREAT READS → EARTH TO ZALMI Issue 775 · August 28, 2019

Far from Home

I’ll be sitting on a spaceship for five days until I reach Boruch’s planet

Far from Home
Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leaving the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on June 16, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

 

I come into the house bouncing. Literally. “None days left!” I call, entering the kitchen.

Ma laughs. “Hi, Zalmi!”

For 30 days I’d been counting down to my trip to visit Boruch on his planet. Every day, when I came home from school, I’d call out how many days were left. Now there were none!

“I gotta pack!” I say excitedly.

“You bet!” says Ma. “And we need to go over all the safety rules.”

“Maaaa,” I groan. I know parents know best, but my parents have been obsessed with safety since we moved to Bizan.

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