Ben Ehrenreich - The Way to the Spring. Life and Death in Palestine

N ABI S A LEH

Bassem Tamimi: leader of the village protest movement; Fatah activist from early youth; designated a Prisoner of Conscience by Amnesty International following his arrest in March 2011; married to Nariman.

Nariman Tamimi: popular resistance activist and leader in the village protest movement; married to Bassem; sister of Rushdie Tamimi, who was shot by an Israeli soldier on November 17, 2012, and died in the hospital two days later.

Waed Tamimi: eldest son of Bassem and Nariman.

Ahed Tamimi: daughter of Bassem and Nariman.

Mohammad Abu Yazan Tamimi: middle son of Bassem and Nariman.

Salam Tamimi: youngest son of Bassem and Nariman.

Bilal Tamimi: videographer; former prisoner and Fatah activist during the First Intifada; employed as a graphic designer with the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Public Health; married to Manal.

Manal Tamimi: popular resistance activist and a leader in the village protest movement; married to Bilal.

Osama Tamimi: eldest son of Bilal and Manal.

Mohammad Hamada Tamimi: middle son of Bilal and Manal.

Rand Tamimi: daughter of Bilal and Manal.

Samer Tamimi: youngest son of Bilal and Manal.

Naji Tamimi: a leader in the village protest movement; former prisoner and Fatah activist; employed with the Palestinian Authoritys Anti-Wall and Settlement Commission; cousin to Bassem; married to Boshra.

Boshra Tamimi: popular resistance activist, married to Naji.

Marah Tamimi: daughter of Naji and Boshra; cousin and closest friend of Ahed.

Mohammad Hamoudi Tamimi: youngest son of Naji and Boshra.

Abd al-Razzaq Tamimi: taxi driver; father of Mustafa Tamimi, who died at twenty-eight after being shot in the face with a tear gas canister on December 9, 2011.

Ekhlas Tamimi: mother of Mustafa Tamimi.

Odai Tamimi: younger brother of Mustafa Tamimi, twin to Loai.

Loai Tamimi: younger brother of Mustafa Tamimi, twin to Odai.

Bahaa Tamimi: Mustafa Tamimis best friend; writer of plays and songs; leader of Nabi Salehs dabke troupe.

Mohammad Ataallah Tamimi: founder of Tamimi Press, Nabi Salehs media team.

Bashir Tamimi: owner of the land around Ein al-Qoos spring; active in the village demonstrations; head of Nabi Salehs village council.

Said Tamimi: prisoner; friend to Bassem and Bilal; jailed in 1993 for the murder of Chaim Mizrahi.

Abir Kopty: activist, organizer, and spokesperson for the popular resistance movement; born in Nazareth; lived in Ramallah.

Mariam Barghouti: activist; blogger; student at Birzeit University; lives in Ramallah.

Shireen: activist; friend to Bassem and Nariman, and to Bahaa and the village youth; lives in Ramallah.

Irene Nasser: journalist and documentary film and television producer; lives in Jerusalem.

Jonathan Pollak: Israeli activist, cofounder of Anarchists Against the Wall.

Renen Raz: Israeli activist.

H EBRON

Issa Amro: popular resistance activist; teaches electrical engineering at a local technical college; cofounder and leader of Youth Against Settlements (YAS).

Ahmad Amro: Issas brother; trained as a veterinarian; activist and volunteer at YAS.

Mufid Sharabati: former merchant; ex-prisoner; volunteer with YAS; brother to Zidan.

Zidan Sharabati: my host in Hebron; unemployed laborer; volunteer with YAS; Mufids brother.

Jawad Abu Aisha: popular resistance activist; volunteer with YAS; municipal employee; nephew to residents of the cage house of Tel Rumeida; grandson to the business partner of Jacob Ezra, the last Jewish inhabitant of Hebron prior to the 1967 occupation.

Ahmad Azza: student; YAS volunteer; lives in Tel Rumeida.

Imad al-Atrash: metal worker; activist; cousin of Anas al-Atrash, who was killed by an Israeli soldier at the Container checkpoint on November 7, 2013.

Tamer al-Atrash: popular resistance activist; cousin of Anas al-Atrash.

Fouad al-Atrash: shoemaker; father of Anas al-Atrash; lives in Hebrons Abu Sneineh neighborhood.

Najah al-Atrash: mother of Anas al-Atrash.

Ismail al-Atrash: brother of Anas al-Atrash.

David Wilder: New Jerseyborn spokesman for Hebrons Jewish settlers; lives in Beit Hadassah.

Tzipi Schlissel: Tel Rumeida settler; granddaughter of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel; daughter of the murdered Rabbi Shlomo Raanan.

Baruch Marzel: Boston-born leader of Tel Rumeida settlers; disciple of ultranationalist rabbi Meir Kahane; founder of the far-right Jewish National Front party; perennial Knesset candidate.

Anat Cohen: settler; daughter of Jewish Underground member Moshe Zar and sister of Gilad Zar, who was killed by Palestinian gunmen in 2001; notorious for attacks on local Palestinians and foreign activists.

Eran Efrati: Israeli activist and former soldier.

Haim Hanegbi: cofounder of the socialist, anti-Zionist Israeli political party Matzpen; son of Haim Bajayo, the leader of Hebrons Jewish community before the 1929 massacre.

U MM AL -K HEIR

Eid Suleiman al-Hathalin: sculptor; vegetarian; searcher for unexploded munitions.

Tariq Salim al-Hathalin: student; Eids cousin.

Khaire Suleiman al-Hathalin: shepherd and seasonal worker inside Israel; Eids half-brother.

Moatassim Suleiman al-Hathalin: Eids younger brother; also a shepherd and sometime migrant worker in Israel.

Bilal Salim al-Hathalin: Tariqs older brother; Eids cousin; also a shepherd and migrant worker.

Mohammad Salim al-Hathalin: Tariqs older brother; Eids cousin; suffered extensive brain damage in 2004 after being beaten by a resident of the neighboring settlement of Carmel.

Suleiman al-Hathalin: Eids father; shepherd; the current patriarch of Umm al-Kheir.