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Rachel clicked her tongue behind her teeth.

`` Here, nothing.

But when she saw the children you have just visited, she wanted to take them away and put them out in the country, in the kibbutzim.

She loved the children.

She was a strange woman, your mother.

When she loved, it was with a passion that drove her along and carried along with her those things she loved.

Nothing was too impossible for her to do when she wanted.

She stayed here to work for Aliah.

For many immigrants, for many children, the first thing they knew of Israel and freedom was your mother.

Sometimes it was dangerous for her ''.

Rachel grinned slyly.

`` But she loved danger.

She took it with her wherever she went ; ;

she chose it.

And I think she sought out danger as much as she sought out helping other people.

She was most strange woman.

Ready to follow her impulse.

It was an impulse when she was here in Me'a She'arim -- I was with her -- that led her to stay in Israel.

Your mother wanted to bring children to Israel so that they could leave their ghettos.

Here they did not need to be in ghettos.

If she could not take the children out of this section, at least she could take other children out of their countries and put them on the farms.

She set out to make sure that no Jewish child anyplace in the world had to live in a place such as this ''.