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Stranger than Fiction
When the Old and New Cities of Jerusalem were reunited in 1967, a recently widowed Arab woman, who hadbeen living in Old Jerusalem since 1948, wanted to see once more the house in which she formerly lived.
Now that the city was one, she searched for and found her old home. She knocked on the door ofthe apartment, and a Jewish widow came to the door and greeted her. The Arab woman explained that she had lived there until 1948 and wanted to look around. She was invited in and offered coffee. TheArab woman said, "When I lived here, I hid some valuables. If they are still here, I will share them with you half and half."
The Jewish woman refused. "If they belonged to you and are still here,they are yours." After much discussion back and forth, they entered the bathroom, loosened the floor planks, and found a hoard of gold coins. The Jewish woman said, "I shall ask the government to letyou keep them." She did and permission was granted.
The two widows visited each other again and again, and one day the Arab woman told her, "You know, in the 1948 fighting here, my husband and Iwere so frightened that we ran away to escape. We grabbed our belongings, took the children, and each fled separately. We had a three-month-old son. I thought my husband had taken him, and he thought Ihad. Imagine our grief when we were reunited in Old Jerusalem to find that neither of us had taken the child."
The Jewish woman turned pale, and asked the exact date. The Arab woman named the dateand the hour, and the Jewish widow told her: "My husband was one of the Israeli troops that entered Jerusalem. He came into this house and found a baby on the floor. He asked if he could keep the houseand the baby, too. Permission was granted."
At that moment, a twenty-year-old Israeli soldier in uniform walked into the room, and the Jewish woman broke down in tears. "This is your son," she...
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