You did everything you could.” But Uri kept sobbing. She stroked his hair. She only now realized how hard he was taking the convoy fiasco. They had seven dead to mourn and twenty-two injured and had lost fifteen trucks and two armored cars. And even worse: the road to Jerusalem was still impassible. He wasn’t responsible for the Arab raid. There were simply more of the attackers, and the Haganah, seeing no other way to get supplies into Jerusalem, had knowingly taken the risk. Yet he still blamed himself.
