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In Tel Aviv, the protest began in the middle of the afternoon, on the corner of Dizengoff and King George Streets. I had been relaxing with Victor since lunchtime, hanging out at the beach and walking around town. In a city so calm and relaxing, it was hard not to be content and at peace.
The [...]
She called me from her grandmother’s house while I was in her parents’ apartment. I had been standing on their balcony, looking out over the city like the mother and her daughter next door, the former wearing her hijab. The neighbors to my other side had strung small Israeli flags on their balcony banister along [...]
I ran outside as soon as I saw the sun begin to dip below the horizon, slowly drowning itself in the calm Mediterranean Sea. I had the pleasure of finding my way through the tight, narrow, twisted old streets of Haifa in daylight on several occasions, but I knew that twilight could bring out an [...]
I was nodding off to sleep when the message came over the intercom. I couldn’t hear it over the music playing from my headphones, but I wouldn’t have understood the message even if I had heard it. It was the cute girl in olive drab fatigues that tapped me on the shoulder, prompting me to [...]
