Text and photos by Yvette Cardozo
November, 2012, Vol. 17. No 2
The rental car is safely back without a scratch and filled with gas. So the story can be told. We were SUPPOSED to drive to the main checkpoint leading into Bethlehem on the West Bank, the Arab section of Israel.
Before 2000 … before the second intifada and its terrorist bombings, you could drive unhindered between the Jewish and Arab districts of Israel along the edge of Jerusalem. But now there is this wall. And security gates. And you are not supposed to take an Israeli rental car across.