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Jewish News: Students must promote dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians by Lorin Bell-Cross

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Having moved to Israel from the UK at the age of eight, the everyday reality of conflict came as a shock to me. One morning I was woken by the sound of police vehicles screeching up to the medical centre next to my flat.

The police evacuated the centre and ordered us to stay indoors. The next thing I heard was a large explosion. I can still remember being terrified.

It turned out that the explosion was a police robot neutralising an unattended item, not a terrorist attack, but the incident was typical of the climate of fear that Israelis became acclimatised to during the Second Intifada, when suicide bombings targeted civilians on what seemed like a regular basis.

Read the article in full in the Jewish News.