In a reveal­ing odyssey through Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza itself, long­time jour­nal­ist and Pulitzer Prize final­ist Mark Patinkin explores the world’s most divi­sive con­flict, cap­tur­ing the sto­ries of both sides in his new book, The Holy Land at War. The book is not a polit­i­cal analy­sis but a per­son­al jour­ney — one writer’s attempt to bear wit­ness and take read­ers with him from the tar­get­ed kib­butz­im to Hostage Square; from Ramal­lah and Beth­le­hem to She­ba Hos­pi­tal where wound­ed Israeli sol­diers are recov­er­ing — and final­ly into the war zone in an IDF Humvee.