Arna Mer was a tempestuous and exciting woman. She was the daughter of a professor of medicine, who hadalready become a legend in his own lifetime. As a young woman she joined the legendary Palmakh fighters of theunderground army, and since then the Keffiyah affected by them became her trade-mark. After the 1948 war shejoined the Communist party, then the most hated group in Israel, and married an Arab party functionary. Hertwo well-known sons, Juliano and Spartak, bear revolutionary names.