"Donna!" he greeted, and they took hands and kissed on both cheeks. This was unusual but not out of line as Donna had lived in France for a while, where people kiss on the cheek all the time but it doesn't mean much in particular.

Donna moved to Paris after her tour of duty as a fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force. 

Trying to overcome her disillusion with Israel, she threw herself into French culture and wrote a very popular book called La Vie en Rose, about a great French chanteuse, the singer Edith Piaf.

She'd also learned several more languages. By now, she spoke so many that her English was tinged with a fetching, hard-to-place little accent.