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COVID-19 Diaries: Jerusalem Apartment Life While Working and Worrying About
My Children

Linda Gradstein

   JERUSALEM - I'm used to working at home -- it's one of the things I
   like best about being a freelancer.

   I'm able to continue working, but my favorite part of journalism has
   always been the reporting part -- getting out to interview Israelis and
   Palestinians throughout Israel and the West Bank -- and I am really
   missing that part now.

   I was supposed to travel to the U.S. to give two lectures last week --
   one at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro and one at the
   College of Charleston. I was planning to see my sister and several
   close friends, and spend a few days in Manhattan.

   That trip, of course, was canceled. Here in Israel, we are allowed out
   only to buy food or for medical care, and for short exercise walks.
   I've been walking with my friend Robin, and if one of us gets
   coronavirus, the other probably will too, but it's nice to have company
   while I walk.

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