At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew’s Search for Hope with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land

Yossi Klein Halevi

2001

In early winter 1998, I set out to discover my country, the Holy Land. My pilgrimage was an attempt at religious empathy: I was hoping to encounter, as an Israeli Jew, my Christian and Muslim neighbors in their intimate devotions. For the next two years, through the turn of the millennium, I visited monasteries and mosques and holy sites…

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Yossi Klein Halevi

b. 1953

Yossi Klein Halevi grew up in New York City and immigrated to Israel. He writes about the Middle East for The New Republic and is a senior fellow in the Shalem Center’s Institute for Zionist History and Thought. Klein Halevi has also been active in Middle East reconciliation efforts.

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