Dave's Kids

We got into a discussion about Israeli names today. Dave’s eldest’s means “small wave.” His daughter is Yael (what they call mountain goats/ibex in Hebrew, but also a Biblical character who put someone to sleep with hot milk and then stuck a pin through his skull). And his youngest is Itay (David’s general who sent Bathsheba’s husband to the front lines). He was talking about how crazy it was that they named the children these names, but they just liked the names. I asked why on earth his wife had allowed her husband named David to name his son Itay.