Scott Lewis

Black and White: Beyond The Bullets

'In our village in Palestine, we were living in paradise. We were lucky to be living in that part of the world,' Jawdat Hindi, resident of Raleigh, North Carolina and former mukhtar, or mayor, of the Arab village of Tantura in 1948. When Israeli soldiers seized the village as a strategic point during the War of Independence, Hindi was the young leader of the beachtown. Today, a group of Israeli teenagers from the nearby Jewish village of Zikron Ya'akov spend a beautiful day on the beaches of present day Nahsholim.
'In our village in Palestine, we were living in paradise. We were lucky to be living in that part of the world,' Jawdat Hindi, resident of Raleigh, North Carolina and former mukhtar, or mayor, of the Arab village of Tantura in 1948. When Israeli soldiers seized the village as a strategic point during the War of Independence, Hindi was the young leader of the beachtown. Today, a group of Israeli teenagers from the nearby Jewish village of Zikron Ya'akov spend a beautiful day on the beaches of present day Nahsholim.