The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

2023. Tahsin Mansour lives across the Palestinian village of Azzoun. Once its mayor, he hasn't entered the village for years, fearing for his life. When the war broke out, a roadblock was installed, turning his house into an enclave - neither Palestinian nor Israeli. Tahsin reminisces on his days as a former leader of the Village Leagues: As Palestinian nationalism unites around the PLO in the 70s, the Israeli defense ministry offers incentives to a moderate leadership which will lay the ground for a diplomatic pact. The project draws fire from the Arab world and Israeli entities, declaring the Leagues members traitors. When this project fails, they become persecuted in their own homes.

382 Arab citizens have been murdered in Israel since 2019. The incompetence of the authorities in the face of violence in Arab society in Israel and his inability to provide his young family with basic security lead the director to consider moving to Jenin in the occupied territories, ater his attempts to live in nearby Jewish communities failed. The city is located not far from his native village, Deboria in the Lower Galilee, and it seems that life in the territories of the Palestinian Authority is much safer.