Scott Lewis

Black and White: Beyond The Bullets

Barak Kleiman, 10, shoots hoops at his home in Efrat, Israel just outside of Jerusalem. Kleiman moved with his family to the West Bank settlement from Raleigh, North Carolina in August 2000. Kleiman's parents, Adolfo 'Avi' and Ilana, believe that the land of Israel was granted to the Jews by God and that all Jews have a duty to return 'home.' Avi believes that if every Jew around the world moved back to Israel it would end the conflict with the Palestinians. The fields in the background are owned and farmed by Palestinians who live in a nearby village while another Isreali settlement sits atop the far hill. The more than 200 settlements in the West Bank are a major cause of the tension between Israeli Jews and Palestinians. The Palestinians want land that was taken during Israel's wars in the first twenty-five years since it's creation by the United Nations in 1948. Israeli's say the land is theirs, won in battle against countries that attacked them without provocation.
Barak Kleiman, 10, shoots hoops at his home in Efrat, Israel just outside of Jerusalem. Kleiman moved with his family to the West Bank settlement from Raleigh, North Carolina in August 2000. Kleiman's parents, Adolfo 'Avi' and Ilana, believe that the land of Israel was granted to the Jews by God and that all Jews have a duty to return 'home.' Avi believes that if every Jew around the world moved back to Israel it would end the conflict with the Palestinians. The fields in the background are owned and farmed by Palestinians who live in a nearby village while another Isreali settlement sits atop the far hill. The more than 200 settlements in the West Bank are a major cause of the tension between Israeli Jews and Palestinians. The Palestinians want land that was taken during Israel's wars in the first twenty-five years since it's creation by the United Nations in 1948. Israeli's say the land is theirs, won in battle against countries that attacked them without provocation.