Hannah Senesh

I've had role models before, and they included Sherlock Holmes, Nikita the government killer agent and the Bride from Kill Bill. But now I've found someone real. Really real. And she was even Jewish, and Hungarian! Watching a movie about the life of Hannah Senesh (nee Szenes Aniko) inspired me more than anything else for a long time. Over the past weeks I've been reading her diary, letters and poems. She was meant for something great but had to die at the age of 23. She fell in love with Israel as a young adult and suddenly realised what her mission in life was. Zionism was her religion, her every breath, her only true love. She died without ever having kissed a man. She was extraordinarily smart, bubbly, sociable, community oriented, a real leader - but always felt alone. She only lived for her vision, and never allowed temporary dissatisfaction to blur the glory of the ultimate goal: living and dying for the welfare of the Land and the People that gave her an ideal but not a single friend.