This is The Guardian.

Hello, my name is Claire Longric. I'm the Deputy Editor of The Guardian Longread.

This August, every Friday, we are bringing you some of our favourite Longreads

from the past year with a short introduction by one of the editors.

And today I've chosen a piece that came into us called In Our Teens.

We dreamed of making pieces between Israelis and Palestinians.

Then my friend was shot by Roy Cohen.

We get quite a lot of pictures out of the blue at the Longread

and a lot of them we can't take on.

But some of them really strike a chord and you realise that if you can make it work,

this piece will give you a real insight into the human experience of a particular situation

that you can't usually get from a journalist visiting the area.

This piece by in Israeli, remembering his Palestinian friend and their youthful dreams of

peace, was clearly one of those memoirs that had the potential to be very powerful

because the writer describes how his friend was shot dead at the age of 17.

I think the piece works on different levels.

It's primarily a testament to the writer's friend,

a seal, this Palestinian boy, they met at a peace camp in the US.

And he describes his friend as a wonderful person,

really somebody who could have made a change to the world.

You know, he was very energetic, he was very exuberant,

creative and he really captures that moment of youth when you feel that anything is possible,

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