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LETTER FROM JERUSALEM: A lull in bombing attacks and the big new wall bring a tentative calm to a tormented city. But how long can the quiet last...
...year-old market is the heartbeat of Jerusalem. Until spring, three years of the intifadeh had brought business to a near crawl as it stoked fears that the 90,000 people who crowd the narrow lanes each week could become targets for Palestinian suicide bombers. Now the market's brisk pulse is back as Jerusalemites respond to five months without a bombing and to the construction of a "separation fence" along the border with the West Bank that they hope walls off terrorism...
...suicide bomber blew himself up in 1997. Boneh then turns to indicate where another bomber detonated his charge moments later, in front of the display of pickles and olives. That attack killed 15 people; the bomber's ravaged torso landed on Boneh. Though there were bigger attacks elsewhere in Jerusalem, the two bombings in the crowded alleys of Mahaneh Yehuda during the intifadeh added to its status as a byword for the horrible inevitability of terrorism, and many Israelis simply stopped coming. Boneh almost gave up after his sister Rose and 10 others were killed in January when a bomber...
...same time, Israelis watched with interest as sections of their new wall began to appear along the ridges of East Jerusalem. It has brought a sense of security that perhaps exceeds reality: only 11 miles of a planned 52 miles of fence through Jerusalem are completed. Eli Mizrahi, who owns a cafe in the market and heads the merchants' association, says the wall has had one clear effect: store owners are finally willing to look to the future and listen to his plans to upgrade the market...
...life is returning to a certain normality. Outside the Caffit cafe in the city's German Colony, twice a target for attempted suicide bombings, an Ethiopian Jew checks bags and swipes a metal detector over would-be diners before unlatching the security gate. Most of the restaurant guards in Jerusalem are drawn from the underprivileged Ethiopian community--few others are willing to take a low-paying job that could lead to a terrible death. The Ethiopian security check has become so quotidian that only the naivete of a child can expose the strangeness of it. As an Israeli woman walked...