The entire world of the Palestinian Idris family of Hebron ends 20 meters from their front door – they dare not pass that point. Settlers have beaten them, vandalized their property and let their sheep loose on their land, as a prelude to seizing it

A year and a half after the devastating attack on the western Negev, 80 members of Kibbutz Be'eri are already living there, and hundreds of outside workers pack the dining hall. On Kibbutz Magen everyone is back. And in Kfar Azza, an edible forest is being planted. Many difficulties still loom, but there are many new pioneers helping to overcome them

The silence of spiritual and other leaders of the religious Zionist and ultra-Orthodox communities in light of the abandonment of the hostages in Gaza is not a moral conundrum. It reflects a corrosive tide of leaders who do not have the people's well-being in mind