To Hebron and Back - To Israel

By Michael Green

Until this summer, my dozen or so visits to Israel have been only to the central coastal plain. Neither politically nor religiously ideological, my family would take me to Herzliya beach or on tours of the Galil and the Dead Sea. Sometimes we would speed along Route 90 from the former to the latter, with Jericho and the Judean Hills in the distance, in preference to the three-hour journey circumventing the West Bank via the coastal plain. Nevertheless, the Israeli settlements and Palestinian communities there remained uncharted territory. Making aliya this summer gave me unlimited time to explore both sides of the Green Line....