Community, Learning
An accidental social experiment

Noam Shuster-Eliassi

The Dan Jerusalem is a luxury hotel and spa in an upper-crust neighborhood of a biblical city. But in March of this year, the Israeli military declared it a place to quarantine people who might be contagious of COVED-19. 

From mid-March through early May, the Dan Jerusalem hosted about 180 patients, all forced to live together until they were no longer infectious. They could only leave after they tested negative twice.

The guests came from many walks of life — Israeli Jews, Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel, Palestinian residents of Jerusalem, religious, secular — and they all had a blast.

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