Home Run at Ben-Gurion Airport

Chief Superintendent Zohar Narkis, chief of police at Ben-Gurion Airport, is sitting on a plane bound for Canada, filling in application forms for political asylum. In his rough and direct style, he recounts the amazing events of the last 24 hours that have led him to flee Israel. What began as an apparent terrorist attack at the most secure airport in the world turned out to be something completely different. To the amazement of the security personnel, people who died years ago began to appear in various parts of the airport. But why are they returning now from the world of the dead? What do two Israeli soldiers who died while serving their country have in common with a criminal slain decades ago, a Beduin murdered in a blood feud, an Arab woman killed during the Second Intifada, two Jewish children from a settlement blown to bits in a terrorist attack, or a man and woman who perished in the Holocaust? As the plot picks up speed, the reasons for these strange resurrections becomes clearer and Narkis discovers that the horrifying repercussions are likely to affect him too, as his son was killed in a road accident two years ago.

Home Run at Ben-Gurion Airport is a fast-paced, humorous novel full of suspense. But it is also an political allegory on the ironies of Israel`s complicated reality, which creates troubling moral dilemmas.