This article is adapted from a talk last fall by author and psychotherapist Avigail Abarbanel to the Kairos Puget Sound Coalition. A Q-and-A following the talk can be heard at that link. –Ed. I was born in Tel Aviv in 1964 and grew up in Bat Yam in ‘downtown’ Israel — a side of Israel of which few people are aware. I don’t know if this is still the case these days, but when I started to speak out, Israel was still largely romanticised and had something of an idealised image in the Western world. Influenced by popular culture and...