טרקטור עם נשמה
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00:00Gal, please.
00:12Is there a heart in the metal shell?
00:18A new and exciting red tractor
00:21came to replace the trough
00:23in the Roussevsky family's farm in Kfar Chaim.
00:26The year was 1960
00:29and the tractor was immediately put on a wheel
00:32and drove to the fields to bring vegetables to the cows.
00:35And again it was put on a wheel
00:37and drove to plow the fields.
00:39My father, Ishai, and my uncle, Nachman,
00:42who was a young boy,
00:44used to drive the tractor
00:47across the valley of Hefer
00:49when their daughters-in-law sat on the tractor.
00:53Since the tractor was not the most successful,
00:57he decided to buy a new tractor,
01:00a type of Ferguson,
01:02and the little Forsche was sold and sold
01:06to the Hasidic farm in the village across the road.
01:11As a child, I never met the tractor
01:15and did not know it.
01:16I only heard stories about it,
01:18saw pictures.
01:20I knew the Ferguson
01:22and all the Fergusons that came after it.
01:25I remember a picture
01:27where I, as a child,
01:29was sitting on the stairs of our house
01:32when I heard the sound of a Ferguson tractor
01:35approaching from the direction of the water well
01:37through the ditch towards the house.
01:40My father-in-law was driving it
01:42when he sat down from the wheel
01:44and on the side of the tractor
01:46there was a bottle of milk
01:48with a handkerchief.
01:52That milk
01:54was my mother-in-law's
01:56and after she poured the milk,
01:59she made us cocoa.
02:02A year before the Bar Mitzvah,
02:04my father-in-law fell ill
02:06and was on treatment at Billingson.
02:08The whole team there loved him
02:10and he was very fond of the large seeds
02:12of gypsum flowers from our garden,
02:15avocado, peach.
02:18On the holidays,
02:21on the holidays,
02:24he won to drive
02:26the family tractor,
02:28the Mekushat.
02:35I see you, father,
02:37and I am proud of you.
02:41The whole village sees you.
02:45And after the visitation ceremony
02:47at the Moshav ended,
02:50he went to the hospital
02:52where he was admitted.
02:56I remember a picture in black and white.
02:58My father-in-law was driving
03:00the old tractor
03:02on the Porsche,
03:03when behind him,
03:04on the exit,
03:05my uncle was standing
03:06on the Nepalese
03:08machine shovel
03:10that was in operation.
03:12At the age of 16,
03:15I decided to find love
03:17and I took the new Ferguson tractor
03:19that was in operation
03:20and I started driving
03:21across the valley.
03:23Until one day,
03:24I arrived in a small village
03:26half an hour away
03:28driving a tractor.
03:30And there I met
03:32the love of my life.
03:37I enlisted in the IDF,
03:39a combat soldier in Givati,
03:41training at the Golan Heights,
03:43Lebanon, Gaza.
03:45And after I was released from the army,
03:47I set up a business
03:49to work with tractors and machines.
03:51When one day,
03:53I was driving through a field
03:55in the farm of the Hasid family
03:57in the village of Monash,
03:59when suddenly,
04:01I get a bit of a chill
04:03when I see it,
04:05I see on the edges,
04:07on the side of the fence,
04:09a solid piece of iron
04:11and it says Porsche on it.
04:13So I jumped out of the fence
04:15and approached Arie.
04:17I asked him,
04:19Arie, could this be my father's tractor?
04:21From the Rusovsky family,
04:23Ronen, from Kfar Chaim?
04:25And Arie said,
04:27yes, I want it.
04:29Arie said, no.
04:31In the same year,
04:33I sold an iron to Arie Hasid
04:35for 2,000 shekels.
04:37At the end of the iron sale,
04:39I come to Arie and say,
04:41Arie, I want this piece of iron
04:43that was thrown at you
04:45on the side of the fence.
04:47And Arie says, no.
04:49You're not the only one who wants it.
04:51Maybe my fiancé will fix it.
04:55Five years later,
04:57I dream at night
04:59about the day when the tractor
05:01will return to the farm.
05:03Until one day,
05:05we are going out to the farm
05:07and I meet Arie again.
05:09I say, Arie, what about the tractor?
05:11And Arie says,
05:13in my opinion, it's okay.
05:15Talk to Gadi, the groom.
05:17It was on Thursday.
05:19In the same years,
05:21I changed my profession
05:23and I remember I was working
05:25in a sewing factory.
05:27On the first day,
05:29I finish my work at two o'clock
05:31and I go with my sewing machine
05:33to the village of Monash,
05:35to the farm of the Hasid family,
05:37to the farm.
05:39I stand next to the iron
05:41and I whisper to Gadi,
05:43and Gadi says to me,
05:45iron.
05:49I immediately opened the machine
05:51of the sewing machine.
05:53I took out a pair of green and new
05:55sacks.
05:57I laid them in a holy place
05:59under the iron.
06:01I hung them on the handle.
06:03I pulled the handle.
06:05The tractor is in the air.
06:09I carefully laid the tractor
06:11on the sewing machine
06:13and when I get out of there,
06:15I call Amit, my brother,
06:17who lives in Kfar Chaim,
06:19and I say to him,
06:21Amit, do you know what I have
06:23on the sewing machine?
06:25Dad's tractor.
06:27We got to Kfar Chaim
06:29like two little kids.
06:31We took a picture of the tractor
06:33and I carefully put the tractor down
06:35in the yard.
06:37When I get home,
06:39my wife says to me,
06:41you fulfilled your dream.
06:43You got your father's tractor.
06:45And I say to her,
06:47no, the dream is
06:49that my grandfather's grandchildren
06:51will get on my grandfather's tractor
06:53and I will immediately
06:55start the inspection.
06:57I buy new sacks,
06:59clean all the wheels,
07:01and go to an old sewing machine
07:03that after a few days
07:05rings on my phone
07:07and tells me
07:09on the phone
07:11that the tractor's engine
07:13is working.
07:15You have no idea
07:17how excited I was
07:19to hear the words
07:21of the foreman
07:23who came to the inspection.
07:25But in front of us
07:27there is still a lot of work,
07:29and a lot of money.
07:31Until one day
07:33the oil market collapsed,
07:35my life was stopped,
07:37and I was forced to return
07:39the half-finished tractor
07:41home.
07:43I put it in a shed
07:45and of course
07:47everyone who came to visit me
07:49showed me the half-finished tractor
07:51and I told him the story.
07:53Until one day a friend came to me
07:55and told me that in Kibbutz Enshemer
07:57there is a museum of tractors
07:59and a repair workshop.
08:01He told me to offer them a deal.
08:03They will repair the tractor,
08:05the tractor will remain yours,
08:07you will pay for all the expenses,
08:09they will do the work,
08:11you will pay for the expenses of the outside work.
08:13The tractor will appear permanently
08:15in the museum at the show.
08:17It will have a picture
08:19of your father
08:21and the story.
08:23You can take it from the museum
08:25and bring it back.
08:27And so it was.
08:29I brought the tractor
08:31to the workshop.
08:33They disassembled it, repaired it,
08:35assembled it, painted it,
08:37assembled it and painted it.
08:39I brought the tractor
08:41back to my grandfather's and
08:43grandmother's farm in Nesiah
08:4550 years after
08:47he left Nesiah.
08:49I took a picture of my aunt Nachman,
08:51who was then a young woman,
08:53exactly 50 years later.
08:57I drove
08:59with the tractor
09:01to my father's grave.
09:03I participated
09:05in a weekly celebration
09:07at the workshop with the tractor
09:09several times.
09:13In one of my father's memories,
09:15after we went up to the grave,
09:17the whole family arrived
09:19at the museum
09:23and we took a picture
09:25next to the tractor.
09:27My name is Gal Ronen
09:29and I know,
09:31Jacobi,
09:33that there is a heart
09:35and a soul
09:37in the flesh of a calf.
09:39And it even fits
09:41on my leg.
09:43Thank you very much.
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