Dorothea Shefer-Vanson is an author and freelance writer based in the Jerusalem suburb of Mevasseret Zion, Israel.

JTA — As she watched a cascade of seemingly conflicting news reports about the three highest-profile Israeli hostages, Noam Nisim didn’t know what to think. First, a popular Israeli news ...

When visiting a friend in the Netherlands he recommended this book and I decided to try and get hold of it. This was not as easy as it sounds, and it was only through a special search feature of ...