“I told him my name is Ahmed Eid, I’m director of surgery. Then I made a joke, I guess. I said, ‘An Ahmed stabbed your son, and an Ahmed is going to save your son.'” WaPo’s William Booth and Ruth Eglash visited Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem to find a glimmer of Middle East hope by way of two doctors known among the staff as Bert and Ernie. The hospital is one of a diminishing number of places where Jews and Palestinians still work together for a common good; in this case to save lives. One doctor explains the clarity associated with saving the life of a person who attacked one of your own: “I don’t think I can be criticized for saving a life, It is holiest of holies. I just don’t understand the question when someone asks me why I saved the life of an attacker.”

+ Today’s Israeli and Palestinian teens were born after the assassination of Yitzak Rabin. The vacuum left by the absence of a hope for peace has been filled with images of violence and hate, both on the streets and on social media.