Sam Bahour moved from Ohio to the West Bank two decades ago to build businesses in a new country that has yet to gain independence.
While the news footage suggests that Israel is all knives, stones and bullets, a political middle quietly tries to bring cultures together despite a backdrop of fading hopes for peace.
Dov Bloom's father, a Pittsburgh journalist, predicted that Israel's Six-Day War would mark the beginning of the "battle" over the West Bank. The son has joined that battle.
While the cycle of rage and restrictions dominates the mood in Jerusalem, the coastal city of Akko hosts efforts to bring Arabs and Jews together, and features models of forgiveness.
As tempers rise in nearby Jerusalem, Israeli settlers in the West Bank town of Efrat mount a strong defense against any territorial concessions to the Palestinians.
Ripples from Jerusalem's weeks of stabbings and shootings are felt in one of Israel's few integrated schools, its YMCA, its Jewish markets and in the stalled lives of its Palestinian residents.
Moshe Fogel, a former spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, knows how to communicate in a crisis
Follow the long journey of Bhutanese refugees from camps in Nepal to their new homes in Pittsburgh, Pa. through this news interactive.
Bhutanese refugees stuck in refugee camps in Nepal long to be re-united with their families in the United States.
Refugee women in mixed marriages say they're forced to choose between their husbands and a future in the United States.
Reporter Moriah Balingit and photojournalist Julia Rendleman spent a night in a refugee camp in Nepal.
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