The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Eshkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family left fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and Bashir began a rare friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and tested over the next half century in ways that neither could imagine on that summer day in 1967. Sandy Tolan brings the Israeli-Palestinian conflict down to its most human level, demonstrating that even amid the bleakest political realities there exist stories of hope and transformation.

• Blood Brothers: The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel
• My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
• Mornings in Jenin: A Novel
• A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
• A History of the Modern Middle East
• Arabs and Israelis: Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East
• From Beirut to Jerusalem
• Married to a Bedouin
• Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses
• Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor