NEW YORK POST
In Israel we’re defying Terror by living our lives
by Lahav Harkav

…At the same time, Israelis are nothing if not defiant. I’ll be damned if a bunch of anti-Semites keep me from going to work, or to pray at the Western Wall, or to the movies or anywhere else. Allowing my life to be seriously disrupted would be, as the cliché goes, letting the terrorists win. It’s not always easy, though. This week, I went to Jerusalem to spend the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah with American friends vacationing there. They asked me if it would be safe for them to pray at the Western Wall, the retaining wall of the Temple Mount, which is the holiest site for Jewish people and the third-holiest for Muslims, who pray there at the Al-Aqsa mosque, but also use the site to riot and to store boulders and firebombs to throw at Jews. READ MORE