Word: kiryat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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White-bearded, grandfatherly Rabbi Eliezer Waldman looks more like a prophet than a revolutionary. When he helped found Kiryat Arba, now home to 7,000 Jews near the Palestinian city of Hebron, in 1968, he says, "we felt that God had opened the gates and brought us back to the heart of Eretz Yisrael." As spiritual leader of the Jewish settlement movement, Waldman and a handful of other settlers must decide how they are going to force the Israeli government to renege on the peace agreement. The rabbi is convinced that with demonstrations, the blocking of some roads, interference...
...caught between the few who embrace violence to continue doing what they believe is God's work and those who have, after years of the Palestinian uprising, lost their taste for the hatred and death that violence breeds. Ahiram Nagar is 18 years old, and has lived in Kiryat Arba for the past three years. He is about to enter the Israeli army, and he is not averse to taking part in violence because "it can help." Far more typical is Michal Petel, 31, a Jerusalem-born mother of five who has lived in Kiryat Arba since 1981. "The peace...