My great-grandmother came here at the turn of the century. She was an unmarried woman in her late 20s, early 30s, from Galizia, Poland. And she came to help her great uncle who was building different communities around the old city. And while she was there and supposedly helping with his kids, she actually went off and had a love affair with an Ottoman official on a rooftop in the middle of the old city.

Oh, the rooftops. The rooftops.

Yeah. So you can imagine how well this went down with her religious family.

And so when they got wind of it, they sent her as far away from Jerusalem as they could.

Not back to Poland,

but all the way to Chicago where she met my great-grandfather. And they got married and had my

grandmother who had my mother, and here I am. And so that part of our family history really

resonated deeply with me as I was off looking for my own love affairs on rooftops in Jerusalem.

How did that go?

So my partner is a Christian, Palestinian citizen of Israel with some Armenian heritage.

And I'm Jewish and proud of it.

And that's sort of at the forefront of my identity.

Hey, I'm Isishi Harmon, and this is Israel's story.

This week marks what we can only hope will be a turning point in life here.

There are different narratives around the ceasefire agreement.

Pain and joy, victory and defeat, redemption and surrender, excitement,

and fear. It's hard, almost impossible, to hold all these feelings at once. But in today's

wartime diary, we bring you the story of someone who has to hold conflicting

feelings and different narratives all the time, within her own living room.

A few episodes back, we share the story of Anwar bin Badis, a Muslim from Jerusalem,

who, together with his Jewish wife, is trying to understand how to be both a partner

and a parent in a mixed family during these fraught times. And our episode today is, in some ways,

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