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Abu Ala (Oslo negotiator), 138

Abu Dis town, 93–94, 182

Abu Faraj (UNRWA driver), 71, 73–75, 100–101

Abu Ghosh town, 185

Abu Iyad (PLO leader), 85–86

Abu Jihad (Abed’s cousin), 169–71, 194, 198

nephew Mohammad Bakr and, 170

niece Zeyna and, 170

Abu Jihad (PLO leader), 85–86

Abu Kabir morgue, 118

Abu Mazen (Palestinian Authority president), 170–71

Acre, 78, 81, 215

Adam, Yekutiel, 152

Adam roundabout, 110, 215

Adam settlement (aka Geva Binyamin), 3, 5, 106, 110, 114, 118, 140, 149, 152–53, 155, 182, 196, 209–10

AFP news agency, 95

al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, 121

al-Aqsa mosque, 9, 13, 62

Sharon visit to, 55

Alawi (ancestor of Anata families), 9

al-Bireh town, 108

Al Jazeera TV network, 168

Allenby Bridge, 35–36, 146–47

Allon settlement, 133, 137, 183

al-Quds University, 93

American Journal of Nursing, 186

Anata, 1–2, 4, 9–11, 33–34, 52, 65, 120, 152, 158, 168, 180, 193–95, 197, 203, 209

Anatot and, 154–57, 210–11

First Intifada and, 16–18

lack of services in, 162, 170–71

land confiscated from, 4, 10–11, 133

maps of, 22–23, 111, 140, 182–83

Second Intifada and, 56

separation wall built around, 10

Anata boys’ school, 9, 23

Anata cemetery, 23

Anata girls’ school, 9, 10, 20, 23, 168–69, 198

Anata mosque, 23

Anata Youth Club, 23, 173, 197, 198

Anat (Canaanite goddess), 9

Anatot base, 4, 23, 29, 111

Anatot (biblical city), 9

Anatot settlement, 4, 11, 110, 140, 151, 154–57, 210

Anglo-Saxon Real Estate, 209

Ansar III prison. See Ketziot prison

Ansar prison camp (Lebanon), 29

anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox sects, 117, 119, 133

apartheid roads, 23, 135

“An Arab Kid Died, Ha Ha Ha Ha” (TV segment), 207–10

Arab Revolt (1936–39), 27

Arafat, Yasser, 16, 29, 84–86, 90–91, 94, 133, 138–39, 156–57

a-Ram, 73–74, 77, 111, 122–23, 125–26, 130–31, 161–62, 171, 182, 196

protester killed in, 131

a-Ram clinic, 6

Area A, 137–39, 140, 143

Area B, 137–39, 140

Area C, 107, 121, 123, 137–39, 140

Armistice line of 1949, 78, 143. See also Green Line

Arrabe village, 193–94

Ashkenazi Jews, 150–51, 153

Askadinya (restaurant), 49–50, 53

Atarot settlement industrial zone, 124, 183

Atef (butcher), 2, 22

a-Tur neighborhood, 175–76, 179–80, 183, 200–201, 203, 205

Baab al-Asbaat cemetery, 202

Bahri, Abu Mohammad (Tala’s grandfather), 121–22

Bahri, Tala, 116, 120, 187, 191

Balfour Declaration, 134

Barak, Ehud, 134

Barkat, Nir, 160

Barq, Ziad, 167

Basa, Dalia, 184–85

bayanaat (intifada communiqués), 16–17

Bedouin, 4, 71–73, 192

Be’er Sheva Prison, 147

Beinisch, Dorit, 125

Beirut, Lebanon, 15

Beit El base, 120, 152

Beit El checkpoint, 124, 130

Beit El settlement, 140

Beit Jala, 56

Beit Safafa, 128, 183, 194

Beit Thul, 18

Ben-Gurion, David, 134, 150

Benshtein, Eldad, 109–10, 112–13, 115–16, 187

Bethlehem, 96, 140, 145, 182

Bezeq (Israeli phone company), 2, 49, 51–53, 58

Bible, 134, 187

Binyamin Brigade, 120

Biran, Ilan, 138

Birzeit University, 108

Black Panthers, 151

British intelligence, 80

British Mandate, 27, 134

Haifa withdrawal and, 80

tax offices bombed, 28

British Royal Commission, 134

B’Tselem (human rights group), 95

Bucharest, 88–89

Bucharim neighborhood, 34

Channel 10 TV station, 207, 210

checkpoints, 2, 33, 52, 142, 216–17. See also specific localities

chevra kadisha, 119

Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 43

crime, 151, 161, 176

curfews, 18

Cyprus yacht killings (1985), 84

Dahbour, Ahmad (Huda’s uncle; poet), 84–86

Dahbour, Huda, 71, 73–102, 127

aunt Maryam and, 81

cerebral hemorrhage of, 94–95

children of, 88–89, 93

daughter Hiba and, 88

daughter Lujain and, 89

family background in Haifa, 79–84

Hammam Chott bombing and, 84–86

husband Ismail and, 87–90, 92, 96

Palestinian sulta and, 91–92

school bus accident and, 100, 101–2, 127

son Ahmad and, 89, 95

son Hadi and, 88, 93–99

Dahbour, Kamel (Huda’s uncle), 82–84

Dahbour, Mustafa (Huda’s father), 79–80, 82

Dahiyat a-Salaam (aka New Anata), 1, 2, 22, 34, 49, 52–53, 58, 65, 131, 158–59, 176, 183, 194

annexed by Israel, 12

lack of services in, 161

wall and, 159, 161

Damascus Gate, 50, 176

Damascus University, 79

Dead Sea, 34, 78

Deir Jarir, 124

Deir Yassin massacre (1948), 52, 209

Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), 15, 17–21, 24, 27–31, 33–34, 58–59

Dhahiriya detention facility, 28–29

Dome of the Rock, 50

drugs, 19, 21, 163, 176

Dweik, Azzam (Nansy’s husband), 175–81, 190, 200, 202–6

Dweik, Mohammad (Nansy’s son), 204

Dweik, Sadine (Nansy’s daughter), 176–77, 179–80, 200–201, 203–4

Dweik, Salaah (Nansy’s son), 176–81, 189–90, 200–206, 209

E1 area, 4

East Jerusalem, 11–12, 32–34, 140, 152, 183. See also specific neighborhoods

checkpoints and, 33, 142

family courts and, 50

hospitals and, 94

Oslo Accords and, 52

Palestinians denied permission to build in, 205–6

police and, 36, 94

schools and, 162, 216

wall and, 158–60

Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF), 148, 154–56

Egypt, 78, 84

Elazar settlement, 140, 140, 185

“Enta Omri” (song), 31

ethnic cleansing, 80

“fabric of life roads,” 135

Facebook, 207–9, 214

Fadl (injured boy), 187

Fairuz (singer), 73, 89

Fatah, 15–16, 19–21, 27–30, 36–38, 79, 82–84, 87, 121, 146–47

Fatiha (prayer), 43, 62

First Intifada (1987–93), 13–21, 27, 29, 32–34, 39, 47, 135, 147, 155

French Mandate in Syria, 81

Galilee, 56, 81

Gaza, 13, 32, 47, 72, 73, 78, 90, 122, 135, 143

Geva Binyamin settlement (aka Adam), 152–53. See also Adam

Givat Shaul neighborhood, 52, 209

Goldstein, Baruch, 136

Green Line, 78, 143–45, 149

Gush Etzion detention facility, 96

Gush Etzion settlement bloc, 96, 140

Hadassah Hospital–Ein Kerem, 115–16, 168, 181, 183, 184–91, 193, 200–202

Hadassah Hospital–Mount Scopus, 6, 94–95, 100, 115, 124–25, 159, 179, 183, 186–87

Hadera high school, 208

Hafez, Abdel Halim (singer), 30

Haifa (city) 78, 86

Jewish attack on and Palestinian flight from (1948), 80–81

Huda Dahbour’s family background in, 79–82, 84

Huda visits, 91

suicide attack in (2003), 132

Halakha, 116–17

Hamas, 141

Hamdan, Abu Awni (Haifa’s father), 61–62

Hamdan, Abu Hassan (Ghazl’s father), 33–35, 38–40, 42, 45

Hamdan, Ghazl

Abed’s courtship with, 9, 12–13, 16, 18, 22, 25–26, 33–35, 37–41, 58

Abed’s imprisonment and, 31

Abed’s marriage to Asmahan and, 44–45, 48–50

DFLP and, 18, 20

first meeting with Abed after breakup and, 47–49

Haifa and, 59

job in Education Ministry and, 47–49

sister Abeer and, 35

Hamdan, Haifa (Abed’s wife), 1–2, 3, 22, 45, 59, 65, 168–69, 172, 174, 193, 195, 197–99, 204, 213–15

birth of children and, 66–67

brother-in-law Ahmad (Abed’s friend in DFLP) and, 58–59

daughters of Asmahan and, 65

marries Abed, 58–63

sister Wafaa and, 60

Hamdan, Hassan (Ghazl’s brother), 33, 35, 39

Hamdan family, 9, 12, 42, 59

Hammam Chott bombing (1985), 85–87

Hashomer Hatzair, 133

Hasidic sects, 117

Hebrew University, 156

Hebron, 81, 134, 140, 175

Purim massacre in (1994), 136–37

Hebron University, 147

Hendel, Neal, 215

Herod the Great, 109

heroin, 21, 163

Highway 1, 4

Hindi, Abdullah al-, 187–89, 191–92, 202

Hindi, Ahmad al-, 187–88, 191

Hindi, Hafez al-, 187–89, 191–92

Hindi, Haya al-, 187–92

Hindi family, 189

Hizma checkpoint, 22, 111, 183, 191, 215

Hizma village, 20, 155, 182

Holocaust, 133

Homs Camp, 78, 81

refinery bombing near (1973), 85

Ibrahim, Huda, 185–86, 189

Ibrahim, prophet, 201

Ibrahimi Mosque massacre of 1994, 136–37

infant mortality, 150

International Committee of the Red Cross, 36

international law, 124–25

Iraq, 9

Islamic Jihad, 170

Islamists, 29, 147

Israel

founding of, 18, 71–72, 80–81, 150

informants and, 28, 122

map of Palestine and, 78

pre-1967 lines and, 32–33, 90

Israel Defense Forces (IDF), 10, 13–14, 19, 27–28, 56, 94, 96–98, 112–16, 120–24, 130–36, 142, 144, 146, 148, 154, 156–57, 161

Central Command, 138, 141, 196

Israeli Border Police, 94–95, 121, 159, 161

Israeli Civil Administration, 123–24, 144, 155, 156

Israeli Committee for Settlement, 152

Israeli emergency services, 108, 215, 216

Israeli Health Ministry, 150

Israeli High Court of Justice, 124–25

Israeli intelligence, 92

Israeli law, 54

Israeli–PLO dialogue groups, 30

Israeli Supreme Court, 215

Israeli youth, 207–9

Jaba, 3, 5, 74, 77, 105–7, 110, 122, 125, 128, 140, 152–53, 192, 182, 196

Jaba Bedouin, 77, 114

Jaba checkpoint, 2, 74–75, 106, 110, 122, 153, 216

Jabal Mukaber, 90, 183

Jaba road, 130–31, 196

condition of, 74, 107, 216–17

school bus accident and, 106–8, 110–11, 112, 121–26, 133, 169–70, 216–17

Jaffa, 78, 81, 86

Jahalin Bedouin, 72

Jameela (Abed’s fiancée), 54–57

Ja’uni, Ola, 19–20, 24

Jenin, 6, 121, 140, 193, 194

Jericho, 3–4, 140, 151

Jerusalem. See also specific localities

Abed’s construction jobs in, 33–34

attacks of 2002 and, 141–42

bombing of British tax office in (1944), 28

bombings in, 119

checkpoints and wall and, 2, 158–62

Fatah and, 147

hospitals and ID cards and, 100

land annexed to, 10–11

map of greater, 182–83

maps of municipal, 22–23, 111, 182–83

Old City, 11, 43, 50, 146, 183

Oslo Accords and, 52, 89

Palestinian areas of, 11, 93, 159–62, 176, 217

refugees and, 81

yeshiva in, 117

Jerusalem–Ramallah urban zone

attacks of 2004–2006 and 2010–2012 in, 132

car accidents in, 121

complexity of, 131–32

Jimzu village, 187

Jordan, 10, 14, 35–36, 50, 84, 144, 146

Jordan Valley, 143

Joulani, Saadi (Ula’s nephew), 76–77, 101

Joulani, Ula, 76–77, 101, 171, 188, 201

Kaduri, Yitzhak, 34

Karnit (fund for victims of road accidents), 204, 216

Ketziot prison (Naqab/Negev), 29–31, 98

Kfar Adumim settlement, 133–34, 137, 140, 152

Khan al-Ahmar, 4, 71–74, 102, 127

Khoury, Khalil, 185–86

Khulood (Ghazl’s friend), 44–45

Kids Land play center, 6, 177, 178

Kiryat Arba settlement, 136

Kokhav HaShahar settlement, 124, 140

Kol Hazman (newspaper), 14

Kufr Aqab, 2, 108, 159–61, 183

Kufr Kanna, 54–57

Kufr Malik, 124

Kulthum, Umm (singer), 30–31

k’vod hamet principle (respect for dead), 118

Labor party, 124

Land of Israel, 133, 160

Lavi (kibbutz), 134

Lebanon, 29, 78, 79, 81, 83–85, 146, 152

Civil War, 83

Likud party, 155

Lubya village, 134

Ma’ale Adumim settlement, 72, 96, 137, 140

Ma’ale Hever settlement, 134, 140

Machane Yehuda bombings, 118

Magen David Adom “Mada” (Israeli emergency medical service), 109–10, 112–13, 115–16, 180–81

Makassed Hospital, 24, 67, 180, 183, 212

maps

Anata and Surroundings, 22–23

Greater Jerusalem, 182–83

Jaba Road Area, 110–11

Palestine and Israel, 78

The West Bank and the Wall, 140

Marxism, 15, 133

mass casualty event protocols, 184–85

Mea Shearim neighborhood, 117, 183

Mecca, hajj to, 37, 212

Medjez el-Bab, Tunisia, 85

Midhat (Abed’s friend), 50, 53

Mishor Adumim settlement industrial zone, 127

Mizrahi Jews, 149–53, 209

Mofaz, Shaul, 144

Morocco, 149

Morrar, Nader, 107–9, 127

Moscobiya detention facility, 36, 96, 147, 183

Mount Carmel, 79

Mount of Olives, 50, 67, 175

Mufida (Nour al-Houda teacher; wife of Ziad Barq), 5, 167

Musrara neighborhood, 50

Nablus, 140, 152, 191

Najjar, Ruba al- (wife of Abed’s brother Bashir), 172–73

Nakba (mass displacement of Palestinians in 1948), 80

Naqab (Negev) area, 78

Bedouin expelled from, 71–72

Naqab (Negev) prison. See Ketziot prison

National Water Carrier, 132

Nazareth, 54, 81

Ne’eman, Yuval, 152

Negev (Naqab) Desert, 29

Netanya Park Hotel attack of 2002, 141

Neve Yaakov settlement, 3, 73, 111, 183, 196

Nidaa (UNRWA pharmacist), 73, 75, 101

Nofei Prat settlement, 133, 183

Nour al-Houda school, 2, 23, 105–6, 111, 163, 168–69, 175–77, 179–80, 197–98, 214

occupied territories, 32–33, 84, 86, 99. See also East Jerusalem; Gaza; West Bank; and specific towns and locations

Palestinians arrested in, 99

Palestinian limited self-rule in, 33, 86

Palestinian returnees vs. insiders in, 91

permit system and, 33

Second Intifada and, 56

Ofer prison, 28–29, 96–99, 182

Oiring, Bentzi, 119–20

Operation Bi’ur Chametz, 80

Orthodox Jewish nationalists, 90

Oslo Accords, 47, 52, 55–56, 78, 89–91, 132–39, 146, 148, 155, 194

Oslo II and, 89, 138

Ottoman Empire, 79–80

Palestine

civil war (1947–48), 80

early Zionist pioneers in, 133–34

map of 1947 partition plan and Oslo areas, 78

map of West Bank and wall and, 140

Oslo II and, 89–90

Palestine Liberation Army (PLA), 83

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), 14, 15, 17, 29, 33, 79, 84, 86, 146

Culture Department, 84

Department of Refugee Affairs, 148

Oslo Accords and, 47, 89, 135

Tunis headquarters, 79, 84–86

Palestine Red Crescent, 79, 85, 107–8, 216

Palestinian Authority (PA, sulta), 33, 47, 56, 91–92, 131–33, 144–45, 170–71, 186, 193, 196, 216

President Abu Mazen, 170–71

school bus accident and, 169–70

Palestinian Education Ministry, 47

Department of School Health, 47–48

Palestinian intelligence, 197

Palestinian Interior Ministry, 92, 121, 122, 123, 161

Palestinian police, 123–24

Palestinian Preventive Security Organization, 5, 148

Palestinians, 28, 32

arrests of, 30, 99, 142

attacks of 2002 and, 141

East Jerusalem evictions of, 52–53

emergency services for, 113, 216

Haifa expulsion and, 80, 81

Hebron massacre (1994) and, 136

ID colors and restrictions on movement, 11, 32–33, 52, 90, 123, 135, 159–60, 162, 175, 184–85, 187, 194, 203–4, 216

infighting and, 19–21, 24–25

Israeli animosity toward, 207–9

as Israeli citizens (’48 Palestinians), 53, 56–57, 144, 161, 185–86

as laborers, 151

Oslo and, 32, 52, 91, 135–38, 146

as returnees, 90–91

school overcrowding and, 162, 193

settler highways cutting through land of, 135

social mores of, 11

UNRWA and, 71

wall and, 144–45, 159–61

Palestinian security forces, 91–92, 123, 130–31, 162, 197

pan-Arab nationalist movements, 82

Partition Plan of 1947

map of, 78

UN approves, 80

Pisgat Ze’ev settlement, 10, 22, 34, 111, 112, 114, 155, 183, 196, 216

Poland, 134

Popper, Ami, 36

Pundak, Ron, 148, 154

Purim massacre in Hebron (1994), 136–37

Qalandia Camp, 73, 116, 183

Qalandia checkpoint, 2, 74, 108–9, 120–21, 170, 183, 189, 215–16

bombing (2004) at, 121

Qalqilya, 140, 145

Qatamon, 34

Qawasme, Nansy, 175–81, 189–90, 200–206

Fadi (Nansy’s brother) and, 179–80

Faisal (Nansy’s brother) and, 190

Osama (Nansy’s brother) and, 180–81, 190, 201, 205

Qayqas, Ashraf, 124–26, 193–95, 215

Quran, 43, 96, 201, 213

Rabin, Yitzhak, 89–90

Rafidia Hospital (Nablus), 191

Rainbow Administration, 134–35

Rajabi, Osama, 14–16, 197

Rama base, 6, 110, 112, 113, 130

Ramadan, 18, 81

Hebron massacre (1994) and, 136

Ramallah, 29, 71, 36–37, 47–48, 56, 120, 131–32, 140, 152, 182. See also Jerusalem–Ramallah urban zone

IDF invasions of, 56, 156–57

Ramallah detention center, 27–28

Ramallah hospital, 6, 100–102, 109, 116, 127, 167–72, 180–81, 182, 186, 188, 191, 195

Ramallah morgue, 170, 180, 191, 195

Ramat Shlomo settlement, 118, 183

Ramle, 187

Rashidiya school, 146

Ras Khamis, 159

Ras Khamis checkpoint, 66–67

Ras Shehadeh, 159, 176, 183, 203

Red Crescent Hospital in a-Suwana, 67

Rifai, Abdel Salaam, 9–10, 23

Rishon Letzion massacre, 36

Romania, 88–89

Romema, 109

Route 4370 (Apartheid Road), 23

Russian émigrés, 109

Safed refugees, 81

Salama, Abed

arrest and imprisonment of, 27–32

Ashraf Qayqas and, 124, 193–95

birth of son Adam and, 66–67

birth of son Milad and, 67

brother Na’el and, 21, 24

brother Wa’el’s imprisonment and, 37–38

childhood of, 9–10

courtship with Ghazl Hamdan, 9, 12–13, 16, 18, 25–26, 34–35, 58

cousin Ameen and, 5

cousin Ibrahim aids search for Milad and, 121–22, 156

daughter Lulu and, 48–50, 168, 198

daughters and, 51, 58, 64–65, 168

death of mother and, 212

DFLP and, 15–16, 18, 20–21, 27

divorce from Asmahan and, 54, 63–65

family background of, 4, 11

Fatah and, 15–16

fight vs. cousins Ahmad and Ameen and, 20–25

First Intifada and, 13–14, 16–17

Ghazl’s meeting at Education Ministry with, 47–49

grandfather’s land and, 4, 34, 72

hajj to Mecca and, 212

heart problems and, 213

ID card and permits and, 32–33, 51–52, 168, 204

job at Askadinya restaurant and, 49, 50, 53

job at Bezeq and, 49, 51–53, 58

job with Ghazl’s father and, 33–34

marriage proposal to and break with Jameela, 54–57

marries Asmahan, 41–49

marries Haifa, 58–63

Milad’s school trip and accident and, 1–5

Nour al-Houda parents calmed by, 197–98

Palestinian Authority and, 170

plans house for Layla and Wa’el, 37–38

proposal to and break with Ghazl, 35, 37–46

Second Intifada and, 56–58

tortured by Shabak, 28

Workers’ Unity Bloc and, 16

Salama, (Abed’s father), 11–12, 14, 16, 21, 25, 34–36, 42–43, 49, 60–61, 63

Salama, (Abed’s grandfather), 11, 72

Salama, (Abed’s mother), 21, 35–36, 48, 49, 60–61, 61

Salama, Abu Wisaam (Naheel’s husband), 13, 15, 16, 17–18, 27, 41, 42, 43, 62–63, 64

Salama, Adam (Abed’s son; brother of Milad), 2, 67, 169, 172, 194, 195, 213

Salama, Ahmad (Abed’s cousin), 20–24, 212–14

Salama, Ameen (Abed’s cousin), 5–6, 20–25

Salama, Asmahan (Abed’s first wife), 6, 22, 23, 51, 51, 59, 59

Abed’s marriage to Haifa and, 61–65

divorce from Abed and, 50–51, 54–55, 64–65

marriage to Abed and, 41–50

parents of, 43, 41, 54, 63–65

second marriage of, 65–66

Salama, Bashir (Abed’s brother), 168, 172–73, 195

Salama, Fatima “Fufu” (Abed’s daughter), 50, 198

Salama, Hilmi (Abed’s cousin), 2, 3, 4, 5

Salama, Ibrahim (senior PA Interior Ministry official), 121–23, 130–31, 131, 146–48, 154–57, 161–62, 193, 195

Salama, Layla (wife of Abed’s brother Wa’el), 35–38, 39, 45

Salama, Manolia “Lulu” (Abed’s daughter), 48, 168–69, 198, 213

Salama, Milad (Abed’s son)

birth of, 67

search for, 167–69, 171–74, 193, 195

school trip and, 1–6

Salama, Nabeel (Abed’s brother), 52–53

Salama, Na’el (Abed’s brother), 21, 24, 212

Salama, Naheel (Abed’s sister), 13, 15, 17–18, 22, 35, 41, 42–43, 45, 62–63

arrest of, 17–18

marriage to Abu Wisaam and, 15

Salama, Rama (Milad’s cousin), 214–15

Salama, Wa’el (Abed’s brother), 21, 35–38, 62, 197, 210–11

Salama family, 4, 9, 12, 23, 161

Salem (rescuer at school bus accident), 75–77, 100–101, 113–15, 121, 127

Sawahre, 90, 93–94, 183

school bus accident, 3, 5, 74–79, 100–102, 105–8, 112, 110–11, 121–28, 133, 153, 163, 167–72, 177–81, 182, 184–92, 195, 197–98, 200–206, 212–17

azza (public wake) after, 196–98

deaths celebrated by young Israelis, 207–10

settlers’ condolences and, 210–11

Sea of Galilee, 78

Second Intifada (2000–2005), 55–58, 93–94, 106, 108, 139, 141–42, 154–57, 184, 208

separation wall, 22–23, 90, 93–94, 111, 121, 131–43, 140, 158–62, 176–77, 183, 216–17

settlements, 3, 4, 10–11, 17, 34, 55, 72–74, 89–91, 96, 106, 109, 112, 114, 118, 123–24, 127, 132–34, 137–38, 142–44, 149, 151–54, 158, 185, 196, 209–11, 215

Sha’ar Binyamin settlement industrial zone, 114, 182

Shaare Zedek (West Jerusalem hospital), 187

Shabak (Israeli intelligence), 28, 30, 36–37, 197

Sharon, Ariel, 55, 122, 142–44, 186

Sheikh Jarrah, 36, 52, 71, 183

Shpeter, Adi, 154–57

Shpeter, Naama, 156

Shuafat Camp, 18–19, 21, 22, 34, 50, 55, 58, 65, 116, 120, 122, 131, 147, 159–61, 163, 176, 183, 187, 189, 191, 209, 214

Shuafat checkpoint, 22, 66, 159, 162, 176, 183, 188

Sidon, Lebanon, 81

Silwan neighborhood, 13

SodaStream factory, 127

Solomon, King, 187

Soviet Union, 14, 16, 34, 87–88, 197

Stern, Yossi, 123

Sufism, 9

suicide bombings, 115–16, 118, 137, 141

sulha (reconciliation process), 24

Syria, 81, 83–84

Syrian army, 83

Talpiot industrial zone, 175

Tamir Amendment, 28

Tarshiha refugees, 81

Tawam, Radwan, 105–6, 108–9, 126–28

uncle Sami and, 105–6, 128

tawjihi (high school exams), 47

Tegart, Charles, 27

Tekoa settlement, 109–10, 116, 140

Tel al-Zaatar massacre, 83–84

Tel Hashomer Hospital, 127

Tel Zion settlement, 114, 182

Tiberias, 134

Tirza, Dany, 132–46, 158–60

Tsemel, Lea, 28

Tulkarem, 140, 141, 145

Tunis, 84–85, 99

Tunisia, 79

two-state solution, 148

Tzur, Saar, 120–21, 123, 130–32

ultra-Orthodox Jews (haredim), 34, 117, 119

Unified National Leadership of the Uprising, 147

United Nations, 19, 71–73, 100

United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), 71, 73–76, 81–82, 92, 94, 101–2, 163, 187

United States, 15, 39, 53, 58, 135

America and Americans, 61, 151, 185

separation wall and, 143

Vaknish, Arik, 209–11

Vanunu, Beber, 149–53, 209–10

Wadi Joz, 183, 202

Wadi Nisnas, 79–80

war of 1948, 18, 52, 72–73, 80–81, 187

war of 1967, 85, 90, 143

war of 1973, 85

Weiss, Arik, 207–11

Weissenstern, Dubi, 116–20

West Bank. See also specific sites and localities

Abed imprisoned outside of, 29

Bedouin and, 72

biblical name of, 135

early years of Israeli rule in, 32

hospitals in, 94

ID cards and, 6, 32–33

IDF and, 120

Jewish settlements in, 124–25, 133, 148, 152

maps of, 22–23, 78, 110–11, 140, 182–83

Oslo Accords and, 55–56, 90, 137–38

Palestinian government and, 5, 47, 135

Palestinian movement across, 193

Second Intifada and, 56

settler quarries in, 124–25

UNRWA and, 71

wall built in, 10, 132, 135–36, 141–45, 158–60

war of 1967 and, 10

West Jerusalem, 182. See also Jerusalem; and specific localities

Wieder, Livnat, 184–87, 189

Workers’ Unity Bloc, 16

World Zionist Organization, 149

Ya’qub (father of prophet Yusuf), 213

Yariv, Duli, 210–11

Yesha Council, 143–44

Yom Kippur, 84–85

Yusuf, prophet, 213

ZAKA (ultra-Orthodox volunteer organization), 116–20

Zionist paramilitary forces, 52, 209

Zionists, 18, 150

early, 133–34

left, 143

secular, 119, 134