Israela: Final Edition

As their lives unfold, the three women find themselves facing choices they would never have envisioned.

In my heart, I call to their mothers, 'Take your sons to your houses. Bind them to your chairs: gag them, blindfold them if necessary until they grow calm. Then teach them, for they have forgotten, about peace, about the blessed life, about a future-a present-without pain.

Beneath their prayers, in their morning cups of coffee, beneath their love-making and their child-rearing, and in their...