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In the Satirical New Musical ‘On the Hilltop,’ the Cast Sings of ‘Price Tag’ Attacks, Dances in Settlement Outposts and Waits for the Beautiful Landscape to Be Free of Arabs. Even Former Radical Settlers Are Impressed

Joanna Chen is a British-born writer and literary translator whose full-length literary translations include Agi Mishol’s Less Like a Dove (Shearsman Books, 2016), Yonatan Berg’s Frayed Light (Wesleyan Poetry Series, 2019; a finalist for the Jewish National Book Awards), Meir Shalev’s My Wild Garden: Notes from a Gardener’s Eden (Penguin Random House, 2020) and Hadassa Tal’s But First I Call Your Name (Shearsman Books, 2022). She teaches literary translation at the Helicon Scho...

They shared a childhood in a West Bank Jewish settlement but as adults Yaakov and Yonatan Berg have developed radically different views about Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory.

67 shares The Berg brothers, Yaakov, 44 (R) and Yonatan Berg, 39, debate at the Psagot Winery, owned by Yaakov, in the industrial park of Shaar Binyamin near the Psagot settlement where they grew up, in the West Bank on December 12, 2020 (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP) PSAGOT WINERY, West Bank (AFP) — They shared a childhood in a West Bank Jewish settlement, but as adults Yaakov and Yonatan Berg have developed radically different views. The brothers were raised in the settlement of Psagot, whic...