User:Julia contrell/The gates of zion

The Gates of Zion was was written by Bodie Thoene. It is preceded by A Daughter of Zion, Return to Zion, A Light in Zion, and The Key to Zion. It takes place in Palestine 1947.

In it Ellie Warne a young photogropher for The University of Oriental Research. She is struggling between her love for David Meyer a war ace and her friendship with Moshe Sachar a secret member of Hagganah which she finds out later.On Partition night she goes out with her camera to take pictures. She notices some of Haj Amin Husseinis secret police watching her because they belive shes in The Hagganah.She takes a photo of them and they attack her trying to get the film they break her camera.At the same time Moshe is getting a refugee ship to The Promised Land. One woman with the words for officers only on her arm decides to jump out of the ship when a british ship of war comes close to capturing th ship. Moshe jumps in the water and rescues her from the waves and brings her to shore. Her name is Rachel Lubetkin. Ellie has a witness a ten year old pickpocket. They try to assasinate them a couple of times the boys name is Yacov Lubetkin. Ellie is attacked in the middle of a riot. she and Yacov escape being burned by David stealing a British truck and having her jump on the canvas trunk. She had taken pictures of the riot. She had them sent to the life magazine desk she becomes a reporter for the magazine. She soon afterwords realizes she lost the pictures of the scrolls which turn out to be the dead sea scrolls. having on the day of partition taken pictures of the scrolls.She and Rachel join the Hagganah smuggling weapons into the old city. Rachel begins to fall in love with Moshe.Rachel discovers that Yacov is the brother she thought to be dead! After they smuggle weapons into the old city Ellie is confronted by an Jihad Mosadque who is about to kill her when Captain Luke Thomas a moderate english soldier intervenes.Ellies Uncle Howard and Moshe go and get th scrolls they are confronted by Hassan and Kadar. Moshe is wounded. They flee into a cave the Jihad Mosadques search for them.Ellie and David fly over them and drop bottles of seltzer water on them they flee. they go and get Moshe and Howard. atthat moment Hassan apears and is about to shoot all of them when Shaul Yacovs dog jumps and tears at his throat killing him. They go back and Ellie realizes she loves David and Moshe decides he loves Rachel