Damascus Gate

Although I lived in Jerusalem from 1990 to 1996, I never had an opportunity to visit the Gaza Strip.  However, in 1999 during a semester in Cairo, our group went to Israel/Palestine for a few weeks and we also went to Gaza.  The major idea that I took from there was that of opportunity and [...]

Yossi Bar-Yousef gets up to make a cup of tea and ends up playing shish-bish with and Arab man, Ziad Abu Youssif.  The background is that Yossi and his wife Devorah are new immigrants to Jerusalem and they live in the house that in which Ziad and his family used to live.  Yossi is understandably [...]