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The entire afternoon was spent running around the Old City of Al-Quds. Stepping through Jaffa Gate was like walking from an outpost of the modern West into a city built of ancient stones in millenia past; I have always loathed the modernized metropolis that the west half of the New City has become, but upon [...]
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 [...]
The song kept bouncing around inside my head and simply would not leave me alone. I rode the bus from מחלה into and through ירושלים and finally ended up circling back out, ending up in a quiet suburb of Jerusalem called גילה. It was in Gila that the driver let me off at the last [...]
