24h Jerusalem

The Old City of Jerusalem is divided into four parts: a Jewish, a Muslim, a Christian and an Armenian quarter. In this Old City, sanctuaries of all three major world religions lie side by side in a very small space: the Al-Aksa Mosque, the Wailing Wall and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Each of the great religions claims space for itself. And then there are the different denominations within the great religions. But Jerusalem exists only once. Not far from Jerusalem's Old City, an Orthodox Jewish family lives as settlers in the middle of an Arab neighborhood. The family has 9 children. Their house is guarded by security forces. Abu Dis, formerly an eastern suburb of Jerusalem, is now behind the Wall in the West Bank. The Palestinian children who go to school here are taught, "Cheer up, you're a Palestinian." Their parents also claim the Holy Land as their grandfathers' land.