Tzav Issur Pirsum

The project

A book about a grandfather who was deeply admired and largely absent.

A 300-page book researching the hidden relationship between me and my grandfather, a Mossad agent who was both deeply admired and largely absent from my life.

The process

Interviews, state archives and boxes of personal papers.

Over a semester, I conducted interviews with family, friends, and Mossad agents, dug through state archives and personal boxes, and gathered everything I could. I wrote all the texts in the book myself.

The concept

Documented events, set against my own perspective.

The book places documented events from my grandfather’s life against my own perspective on the values they raise: loyalty, duty to state vs. family, absence, and what it means to miss someone you never really knew.

The book

Archive and memory, page by page.