Simone Wilson
The terrorist kidnapping of three teens puts Israel on edge
When three young sons of Israel disappear overnight, life is put on hold for everybody.
From murals to tchotchkes, Banksy’s shop attracts crowds
He may not know it yet, but the fiercely anonymous and anti-corporate British street artist known as Banksy has his very own gift shop in the walled-off West Bank.
Turkey’s Islamists protest, Gezi Park rioters draw police
A growing divide between secular and religious factions in Turkey was starkly illustrated by two crosstown protests in Istanbul on May 31.
Israelis, Palestinians vie for Latino support during Pope’s visit
The first Latin American pope brought a wave of Latino love with him on his trip to the Holy Land last weekend.
Seeing humor in ‘Arab Labor’
On a recent Friday morning, the Arab-Israeli writer Sayed Kashua, 38, wearing jeans and a Superman T-shirt, slouched forward over a tiny outdoor table at the Cafe Hillel located in an upscale Jerusalem neighborhood 10 minutes from his home. He was trying to explain to a foreign reporter the urgency of moving his family back to Beit Safafa, a nearby Arab town that sits atop the Green Line between Israel and the West Bank.
Do visits to sites of another’s tragedy help promote peace?
On Yom HaShoah this year, when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called the Holocaust “the most heinous crime to have occurred against humanity in the modern era,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brushed off the unprecedented statement as “damage control” for failed peace talks.
L.A. Lone Soldiers honored by IDF
“I look upon your glowing faces and your shining eyes, and I\’m as excited as you are,” Israeli President Shimon Peres told 120 members of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on May 6, as they stood at attention on his back lawn.
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