
Travelling Through Israel’s Abandoned Borderlands
A months-long ceasefire may have quieted the guns between Israel and Hezbollah, but the scars of war still run deep along Israel’s northern frontier. Entire communities — Jewish and Bedouin alike — remain ghost towns, deserted save for a handful of IDF soldiers and a few defiant residents who’ve chosen the dangers of home over the sterility of Tel Aviv evacuee hotels.Last week, I joined a Canadian media delegation with the Exigent Foundation to visit three of these towns: Kibbutz Hanita, Arab Al...