In 2007 I did a volunteership in the West Bank city of Nablus. In 2009, when I was surfing from Israel to Lebanon (and writing about the region as a journalist) I went back to Nablus and interviewed Aala, the man who ran the NGO where I worked in 2007. He told me that he was planning a trip to Jaffa, where his family is from (just below Tel Aviv). Now, it appears he finally got the papers to go
Check it out. It's a most touching read.
