Haapalah / Aliyah Bet

Martin Fletcher visited the peaceful western coastline, a region where fascinating human stories unfold outside of the media limelight.
Peopled by an array of characters, these stories defined the cultural landscape the author traversed in journeying by foot from Lebanon to Gaza: learning from a friendly Jewish geologist explaining fossilized tree roots near Achziv; considering with a Christian Arab guide a four-faced clock in Acre’s Old Town; surveying the streets of Jaffa, where Muslim women dressed in long dresses and head coverings jostle against Jewish women in shorts and T-shirts.
The book presented av ariety of perspectives, and provided glimpses of an Israel too complex to reduce to the familiar script for interethnic strife.