Episode: Ep245: Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Waking Lions

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Ep245: Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Waking Lions

1 - Ayelet Gundar-Goshen: Waking Lions

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Published at: 2/4/2023

Author: BBC

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Driving too fast through Israel’s Negev desert in his SUV after a long day in the hospital, Dr Eitan Green accidentally hits a lone Eritrean man on the empty moonlit road, killing him instantly. Panic stricken he drives off instead of calling for help and confessing what he’s done. A decision that will change the course of his life irrevocably because the dead man’s wife, the elegant, enigmatic Sikrit, knows what happened. In atonement for his crime Sikrit insists the doctor start treating Eritrean refugees after his hospital dayshifts at clandestine makeshift hospitals in the desert. A nail-biting and morally devastating drama of guilt, racism, shame and desire which stares unflinchingly at the darkness inside us all, and asks the reader: what would you have done? (Picture: Ayelet Gundar-Goshen. Photo credit: Alon Siga.)

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