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Article: Divided we stand. (Jerusalem, Israel, is a divided city)(Column)
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- The Humanist
- Article date:
- March 1, 1997
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He was more than ninety years old when I met him, and that was nine' teen years ago. He lived alone in a little apartment somewhere in Jerusalem. All I remember is that he had the seamed and spotted skin of the very old, but his eyes were bright. He was more sturdy than frail. I don't even remember his name.
I rented a room from his daughter Zipporah, a strikingly beautiful woman of fifty or so, with high cheekbones, blue eyes, and the carriage of a dancer. "Go and see my father," she told me once. "He'll have interesting things to tell you."
Indeed, he did. After the 1948 war, when the Hadassah hospital on Mount Scopus, east of Jerusalem, had been ...