Blue glass shards cut through the plaster and it sparkles with little flashlight bulbs he has wired through it. This young man is Dvir Winternitz, elder son of Jacob and Miri, artist and soldier. The sculpture means nothing, Dvir says. But to an outsider, it evokes his homeland's war-torn culture. Wired with undercurrents of darkness and disconnected beauty.
Violence here is a spark away.
The intifada began in 1987 after four Arabs died in a collision between a carful of Palestinians and an Israeli truck. People said it was no accident, that the crash was reprisal for the stabbing of an Israeli in Gaza.