Tejada recently spoke with High Country News about the contradictions of life in the Borderlands, the lessons of a less-militarized past, and the place that poetry and hope have in our current ...

UPPER GALILEE, northern Israel — Standing at her nearly empty food counter in Kiryat Shmona, Edna Peretz is visibly distraught. “We’ve come back, but with half a heart,” she says of the ...