French Hill, a middle-class Israeli housing complex built on contested land. Yuval grew up here: “I could see the gardens of the Arab-dominated Old City from my window. Sometimes it was lit up at night by army flares. My aunt would tell me stories about a sacred grove of trees tended by Ethiopian monks at the Holy Sepulcher. It was a magical place to me. But we never went there because we thought we would be stabbed.”
