Michal Cafrey
Lawyer and Senior Advisor to Ministers in the Knesset
I am Israeli, a right-winger, and a feminist. I am not for the building of the Wall, I think Jews and Arabs should co-exist. I don’t see an end or solution right now, but I know my policies. Menachem Begin, a right-wing president, brokered the first peace treaty with an Arab country, Egypt, and it continues to this day. Maybe it’s a cold peace, but it’s a peace for 30 years. [...]
Barbara — Monday
Monday morning. In America, colleagues and friends are finding their way back to work after a long weekend. We do a briefer Thanksgiving here—turning it into a Friday night dinner with a proper turkey, cranberry-apple sauce and non-dairy pumpkin pie.
This morning began with a brit milah, called a bris in the US, the 8th [...]
Trude Dothan
Archeologist, author, and professor
When we dig up cities, we get pottery. People were people—they were born, they grew up, they died. Life revolves around this. When we find burial grounds, fortifications, private houses, we get a sense of how they lived, how they ate. The fun of archeology is to make cities and civilizations of the past come alive. People are people are people. [..]
Ester Golan
Sociologist and Holocaust educator
What was your childhood like in Nazi Germany?
My mother was a Zionist since the Balfour Declaration. So, I grew up in the belief that the ancient dream would be fulfilled one day and we would come to Palestine. I was ten years old when Hitler came. In Catholic school, the teacher came in and said: “You are Jewish? Get up and sit at the back.” From that day on nobody talked to me any more. Nobody played with me any more. [...]
