“Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, And happy are all who retain her.”
Mishlei 3:17–18, a verse held to be about the Torah, the traditional guide at the heart of Jewish life.
Qibya is now a Palestinian village in the Occupied West Bank, located 30 kilometers northwest of Ramallah.
In October 1953 Unit 101, an Israeli commando unit led by Ariel Sharon, the future Prime Minister of Israel, undertook a revenge attack on the village in reaction to the murder of an Israeli woman and her two children by displaced Palestinians who had been raiding and attacking Israeli border communities.