Lauren Mei and Ezra as Daniel and Yarko

We walk to the bus everyday to go to school. We skipped bus number 18 because we heard it was a dangerous bus when really any bus in Israel could blow up. When we get on a bus, we always look at the suspicious people and keep an eye on them, and inside I feel as if I stepped into thick air. We take the bus a lot because we have to go to downtown Israel for school.

B.Z. took us to The Wall; we have never been there. We were really nervous to be around so many religious people—everyone had different thoughts, and it was so crowded. Even though we are Jewish, we'd rather meet Arabs than conservative religious Jews. At The Wall you can make a wish and put it into a crack. We wrote one, asking to win the volleyball championship. We ended up losing that game, though, and we were really disappointed. B.Z., don't make us go back to that Wall again!

B.Z. also showed us a picture of a Palestinian kid named Faraj, who was also an athlete who lost his race as well. We felt bad for him remembering how we felt when we lost.

We have kind of neutral feelings toward the Palestinians, but I think Jerusalem is for the Israelis. The Palestinians are asking too much: they can't have Jerusalem, which is our Jewish home! We should share Israel, though; there is enough room, and if one side says the other should leave, that is just wrong.

— Daniel and Yarko, a pair of secular Israeli twins, live in West Jerusalem, and they are deeply concerned with questions of the army, religion, and soccer. They visit a friend in the hospital, a soldier who was wounded in a bomb blast, and express how scared they are to travel on buses. On Memorial day they spend time with their grandfather, and grill him for details of his experiences in the German death camps. They also try to nail him down on a question they themselves are wrestling with: does he believe in God?