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Bringing the Green Line to Sir Paul McCartney
The sea is vast, which is probably why I seldom meet people I know when I go in to take a swim. Another reason is that the sea wets people’s hair and I don’t recognize them quite as easily. A few days ago two wet-haired people called my name. It happened among the Hawaiian-sized waves…
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Yuval Ben-Ami
July 27, 2013
Announcing: +972 travel series ‘The Round Trip’ now available as e-book
The Round Trip, the much-loved travel series by Yuval Ben-Ami, has been published as +972’s first e-book. While +972 blogger and travel writer Yuval Ben-Ami traveled for three weeks around Israel’s borders, I mostly stayed put. But editing the series that was borne of that journey was an exhilarating experience. The 22 posts that made…
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Noa Yachot
July 18, 2013
Podcast: +972 bloggers explore Israeli walls and borders
+972 bloggers and journalists discuss where Israel starts and stops. In his journey The Round Trip, Yuval Ben-Ami set out to explore the State of Israel’s first border – the 1949 armistice lines, also known as the 1967 borders. Haggai Matar, on the other hand, is presently investigating a newer frontier, the one created by Israel’s separation…
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+972 Magazine
June 7, 2012
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The Round Trip part 12: Too bad
From Kafr Qasim to Givon Hahadasha via a salvaged olive grove, a once-imprisoned pool-hall owner and a Portuguese-styled shower. On the train from my soft bed back to Rosh Ha’ayin the following morning, I read the freebie “Israel Hayom,” Israel’s most widely read newspaper. The chief headline refers to the brutal treatment of the Danish demonstrator…
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Yuval Ben-Ami
April 18, 2012
The Round Trip part 11: Good takeaways
Brom Barkai to Rosh Ha’ayin, via a tragic location for charming weddings, an educational paradise, a fallen people’s republic and a Yemenite drug dealership. At the Border Police monument, Israel becomes exceedingly slender. Less than 20 kilometers separate the Green Line from the sea shore. Here I am also a quick 40-minute drive away from…
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Yuval Ben-Ami
April 17, 2012
The Round Trip part 10: Trapped
From Jenin to Mishmar Hagvul junction via a rat maze and a divided town. This is no country for the paranoid. Come twilight, the driver and I arrive in the city of Jenin. He drops me off by a hotel in the middle of Jenin’s market area. It’s about as basic as a gas station’s toilets, but…
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Yuval Ben-Ami
April 15, 2012
The Round Trip part 9: Country living
From Tzemach to Raba via Kurdistan, Morocco, the stone age and the wild west. I spend another night in Hukok with Danielle and the dumb but cute Great Dane she is watching, then in the morning return to where I left off. Tzemach junction is at the southern tip of the Kinneret, not far from…
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Yuval Ben-Ami
April 15, 2012
The Round Trip part 8: Forget-me-nots
From Gonen to Hamat Gader, via a demilitarized zone – childhood memories, some Galilee fish, some Roman nettle, and a debunked conspiracy. For a couple of hours I hitchhike around the short-lived green paradise of the northern Golan, in the hopes of meeting the Israeli settlers (called in Hebrew by a different, less charged term…
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Yuval Ben-Ami
April 13, 2012
The Round Trip part 7: The beautiful and damned
From Dan to Mas’ade, via a ski resort, an imposter village, a gathering of Assad sympathizers and a house with a mattress door. I spend the night at the gym of Dan, a veteran kibbutz in the very northern reaches of the Hula valley. The celebrated “Israel Trail” begins – or ends – right around…
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Yuval Ben-Ami
April 12, 2012
The Round Trip part 6: I once was lost
From Baram to Metula via the Caucasus, the Great War trenches, Zakopane, Libya and South Lebanon. Trying to walk straight. This journey is an easy one to navigate. First the sea provided a clear course, then the border fence kept peeking over the hills. Besides, at every turning point stands some unmissable landmark. Rosh Hanikra’s…
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Yuval Ben-Ami
April 11, 2012
The Round Trip part 5: Nothing’s normal
While meeting Nasrallah’s next door neighbors in Hanita, Ya’ara and Arab Al Aramshe, I can’t help but ponder a very basic concept. As soon as I reach Hanita I know that I’m going to like it. This isn’t to be taken for granted. I have a certain difficulty with places that appear to be in…
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Yuval Ben-Ami
April 10, 2012
The Round Trip part 4: Turning the corner
From Haifa to the Lebanese border, but I mean all the way to the border, via two self proclaimed republics and a Persian paradise. The train rolls north from Haifa, through an industrial hell I’d rather not describe, and I anyway already did, when passing here on the September Journey). I’m not staying here, I’m…
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Yuval Ben-Ami
April 9, 2012
The Round Trip part 3: Roots and branches
On foot from Jisr az-Zarka to Haifa, via Slovakia, Burning Man, Egypt, Sudan, a strip mall and a sub-tropical concentration camp. As darkness falls on the first day of my journey, I am at a coffeeshop in Jisr A-Zarqa, smoking nargileh and speaking to the friendly owner Hamis and to his equally friendly clientele. On…
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Yuval Ben-Ami
April 8, 2012
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