Traveling the Fence Route

On a hot, dry, Friday morning in July, my wife, Lisa, and I traveled the entire length of the route of the fence that will envelop metropolitan Jerusalem. Starting in Gilo, we headed east toward Har Homa, Jerusalem’s newest neighborhood of high-rise apartment blocs situated on a ridge that, like Gilo, faces Bethlehem to its south. Next we followed the eastern arc through the Arab neighborhood