Aryeh's Israel Outlook

Published by the Jewish Policy Center May 1, 2017 - Israel's 69th Independence Day [To see the article there, click here .] Aryeh Green is the author of the forthcoming book My Israel Trail: Finding Peace in the Promised Land . In early 2014, I hiked the Israel National Trail, a 600-mile trek through the Negev desert, the mountains of the Galil, the hills of Jerusalem, the beaches along the coast and everything in between. A challenge for a 50+ casual hiker just getting over a painful divorce, the Trail afforded an amazing perspective on the history and people, vistas and nature of the holy land. And over the course of the two months of hiking alone, I reached a number of conclusions which not only helped to face the physical difficulties of the hike, and to move ahead with the emotional process of healing; they suggest a radical new approach to finding peace between Arabs and Jews in this region. My forthcoming book, My Israel Trail: Finding Peace in the Land of Milk &a