In the first episode of 2022, Professor Menachem Klein, author of the acclaimed book 'Lives in Common', takes us through the changing politics of Jerusalem since the 1990s. Prof. Klein has been involved in several rounds of peace talks offering his expertise and knowledge about Jerusalem. While currently, peace seems to be far away, Klein has been writing extensively on the everyday life of Jerusalem suggesting that in order to make steps forward it is important to change the traditional perspectives that shape our understanding of the history of Jerusalem. Criticizing the conventional chronology based on violent events, Klein told us that is way more important to focus on the gaps, the years that separated those events in order to understand how people lived their daily lives. Concluding the interview, Prof. Klein looked back at his ideas about the future Jerusalem that he wrote in the 1990s and tried to look a what the future may bring given the current context.

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