Ora

Ora is the main character in To the End of the Land, and her viewpoint is the one used most frequently as the story is told. She is Ilan's wife and the mother of Adam and Ofer. Avram loves Ora, and they have been lovers at various points in their lives. She is a red-head. Ora is sixteen years old in the Prologue, 1967. Ora meets Avram and Ilan at the age of sixteen while they are all hospitalized in 1967. She is attracted to Ilan while Avram falls in love with Ora. In 2000, Ora hires a cab to drive her son, Ofer, to a meeting place in Gilboa for a military campaign. She does not consider the insensitivity of hiring an Arab, Sami, to make the journey until after the fact. At home, Ora worries about receiving notice of Ofer's death, and in order to thwart the military's procedure...