" Hitadkenut" – Autograph Article by Haim Guori, Signed – 1974

" Hitadkenut" – Autograph Article by Haim Guori, Signed – 1974
"Hitadkenut" [Update], an article handwritten by Haim Gouri, signed. [1974]. Hebrew.
The article "Hitadkenut", somewhat in the style of a prose poem, was written after the Yom Kippur War, close to the publication of the Agranat Commission report, which investigated the failures of the war. It was published in the journal Molad in 1974 (vol. 6 [29], issue 31 [241], April-June 1974).
Gouri writes: "The process of drawing conclusions is undoubtedly a most painful one, yet there is no escape, you know it as well as I do, from dealing with it […] please do me this courtesy and never again utter – until the coming of the Messiah do not say – the two sickening words 'low probability'. And for the sake of your people of Israel include in the teams of experts some wild-haired anxious prophet who will add gloomy pessimism, ancient Israeli unrest, to the evaluation of the situation".
Later, he pleads: "And act, for God's sake, as if in a continuous and constant repetitive drill. And always ask yourself, what is new by nightfall or by dawn, am I being misled, am I indulging in 'conceptions'… created in my tired mind due to the hardships and the terrors".
This is a handwritten draft of the article (13 leaves), with erasures and corrections. It includes an ending paragraph that was not published in Molad.
13 ff, approx. 30 cm. Good overall condition. Stains. Blemishes and minor creases. Minute tears to edges of several leaves.
Provenance: The Molad Archive.