About his project United We Were Strong Pierre Terdjman writes: “Traveling from Lod to Be’er-Sheva, going through Dimona, I discovered one of the hidden parts of the country [Israel], the part of the promised land forgotten and forsaken by everyone, the land of promises never kept, a land of cities ruined by poverty and unemployment, leaving nothing but a few hovels as squats for drug dealers, and with prostitutes hoping for as many customers as possible so that they could spend their earnings a few hours later shooting up heroine. The people living there, whether Russian, Ethiopian or Arab, have all become ‘sabras’ or humble workers. In another life, some of them were doctors or engineers, but now they do housework, making a few shekels an hour. How did the Israel of kibbutzes with its founding fathers defending socialist Zionist ideals come to forget these men and women who, when united, were strong?” You can now support this project here.