Bethlehem

"From a colonial perspective, you want to project yourself," said Mazin Qumsiyeh, an environmental scientist who teaches at Bethlehem University and founded the Palestine Museum of Natural History.

A friendship between the two women was forged; Didion, who would publish “Slouching Toward Bethlehem” the following year, had found an emissary into the darker corners of the city’s cultural life.

If you live in a place like Allentown or Bethlehem, on the other hand, you’ve been inundated.

This week, a Palestinian man aged 40 was reportedly shot dead after settlers and Israeli soldiers entered Wadi al-Rahhel, near Bethlehem.

Separately, the Palestinian Authority said one person had been killed and three injured in an attack by Israeli settlers near Bethlehem.