We are driving up the West Bank, stringing Biblical landmarks along the Jordan River—the Dead Sea, Nazareth, Bethlehem and the Sea of Galilee—on our way to Haifa. I had found the Yan Yan two years ago. The ‘Happy New Year’ sign written in proper Chinese characters hanging inside the window had signaled to me that the owner was Chinese. But the story got better. Kien Wong turned out to be a preaching Christian and one of the ‘boat people’ taken in by Israel in the late seventies, thereby adding emphasis to the words ‘refugee’ and ‘religion’ in my story.

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