Raz's story began as a boy growing up in Kibbutz Dorot near the border with Gaza.

As a child studying these eternal masterpieces, Bach's music would intermingle with the singing voices of Muslim prayers from the neighboring Arab village of the northern Kibbutz in Israel where I grew up.

CANBERRA The wisest words on the Second Gaza War may have come from an Israeli living in a kibbutz near the Gaza border. If you want to defend me Don t send the Israel Defense Forces for us in order to win, Michal Vasser wrote in Haaretz on November 15.