A little girl who just wants to marry her giraffe shouldn’t have to shoulder the responsibility of her parents’ struggle with the occupying authorities. The automated phone system of the Civil Administration, the military unit responsible for...
No daycare or camp; my partner is away. Being alone all day, every day, with my two kids might be more dangerous than the pandemic. “Forat, do clean up, tidy up,” I called to my daughter for the...
How can we teach our children to resist what is wrong in society - while still protecting them? Boys in dresses and girls at demonstrations.Two and a half-year old Adam likes to wear dresses. Also skirts and pink...
The driver who cut me off really did behave like an idiot. But he wasn’t the one who built the wall or closed the tunnel. I finished a work meeting in Jerusalem at 5 pm and called my...
Even if Osama were to get an entry permit into Israel, how realistic would it be for us to move there based on temporary permits? June 1, 2020 I requested the meeting with the insurance agent to open...
For the first time after two months of corona-closure, we were leaving the West Bank to visit close friends in the Israeli city of Holon. “Forat, brush your teeth so that we can leave,” I begged. Her brother...
Stuck at home, no daycare, my toddler chatters in English, Hebrew and Arabic, while I try to get some work done and keep us safe. No child careIt’s my turn to work, and the children are knocking on the...
Supermarket workers push customers out as 5 P.M. approaches. ‘Police,’ they whisper apologetically to those who seem surprised at their uncharacteristic strictness on lockdown rules. Zoom Kindergarten The animated boy in the video plucked the chick’s feathers. In...
In Palestine, people believed basic goods would remain available, despite the coronavirus – and so they did. Mistrust of the authorities and faith limit precautions On March 23, the first day of the curfew in the West Bank,...
'Israel is obviously behind this,' Osama said, speaking of the West Bank going under closure due to the coronavirus. 'And maybe it’s for the best' The corona virus infects people on an egalitarian basis. The Israeli military orders...
