Rooted in Judea: Lives and Law in the Heart of Israel

Chana drives forty kilometers to work each morning on a road through Judea where a stoning can happen any day. She checks her tires in the driveway. She drives the climb to the checkpoint past the bend where, some mornings, once the car stops the men come down off the ridge with the heavier stones, the knives, the firebombs, sometimes the guns. The morning of the four flats, she drove on rims to the checkpoint and was late to her first client of the morning.

Chana's road is the subject of th...