Sapan Maini-Thompson read History and Politics at St John’s College, Oxford and is now studying for a masters in Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics. He visited Israel and the Palestinian territories in July 2014.
Our Voice of the Fortnight is “The Lachish Story”, a film from the Steven Spielberg Archive at Hebrew University. The film shows Moroccan immigrants’ journey from France to Israel in the early years of statehood, and the adjustment of one family to life in a moshav in the Lachish region.