Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue: A Secret Story
Part I 1917–1956: Of This Tormented Soil
Chapter 1: “The Happiest Day of My Life”
Chapter 2: The Syrian Prince
Chapter 3: Night Squad
Chapter 4: The “Cripple”
Chapter 5: A Christmas Tale
Chapter 6: Civil War
Chapter 7: Fall of Haifa
Chapter 8: Hotel Zion
Chapter 9: Villa Lea
Chapter 10: Married to the State
Chapter 11: Ave Maria
Chapter 12: Women of Valor
Chapter 13: The Beauty Contest
Chapter 14: “Maskiteers”
Chapter 15: A Mission in Life
Chapter 16: Tristesse
Chapter 17: Moshe’s War
Part II 1957–1970: Two Friends
Chapter 18: Punished by Love
Chapter 19: Mandelbaum Gate
Chapter 20: Under the Shekhina’s Wing
Chapter 21: New Face in the Mirror
Chapter 22: Reverence for Life
Chapter 23: A Man Problem
Chapter 24: The Women’s Strike
Chapter 25: Six Days
Chapter 26: The Dayan-asty
Chapter 27: Open Bridges
Chapter 28: The Return
Chapter 29: The Emperor
Chapter 30: In the Bosom of My Country
Chapter 31: This Is Not a Democracy!
Part III 1970–1995: Dialogue
Chapter 32: St. Luke’s Hospital
Chapter 33: Honor Killing
Chapter 34: Umm al-Mu’in
Chapter 35: “Wrath of God”
Chapter 36: L’pozez Akol (Blow Up Everything)
Chapter 37: Mission Renewed
Chapter 38: “Guns and Olive Branches”
Chapter 39: Neve Shalom
Chapter 40: The Quest
Chapter 41: House Arrest
Chapter 42: The Comedians
Chapter 43: Crossing Boundaries
Chapter 44: The Good Witch
Chapter 45: Militants for Peace
Chapter 46: Ms.
Chapter 47: The Tomb of God
Chapter 48: A Furious Aura
Chapter 49: Borderline Case
Chapter 50: Beyond the Walls
Chapter 51: The Bomb
Chapter 52: A Debt of Love
Chapter 53: “Better a Living Woman Than a Dead Hero”
Chapter 54: Uprising
Chapter 55: Living with History
Chapter 56: Ring of Fire
Chapter 57: Oslo
Chapter 58: Life According to Agfa
Chapter 59: Separation
Chapter 60: “I Cry for You”
Part IV 1995–the present: Walls
Chapter 61: Three Kisses
Chapter 62: Suha
Chapter 63: The Angel
Epilogue: Great Wall of Zion
Notes
Index