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Yael Dayan\\u2019s memoir,\\xa0Transitions: Close Up, translated by Maya Klein, is about losses and regrets, with fine focus on the detailed physical world. Dayan is the oldest child of the late Moshe Dayan, the moody and enigmatic hero of the Six Days\\u2019 War, revered as the symbol of the national and military rebirth of the Jewish people, yet reviled as Defense Minister during the 1973 Yom Kippur War for Israel\\u2019s failures. Host Marcela Sulak reads from the preface and a favorite passage on today\\u2019s episode.

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Transitions: Close Up\\xa0by Yael Dayan, translated by Maya Klein. Mosaic Press, Nov. 2016.