מדרחוב בן יהודה

This guide to Jerusalem's Ben Yehuda pedestrian street returns to an ordinary Thursday afternoon in September 1997, when three young men walked into the crowded cafes and buskers of a packed shopping street carrying more than they seemed to. It follows one mother among those who lost a child that day, and the unlikely path her grief set her on afterward. The street itself was pedestrianized in 1983 and named for Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the man who single-handedly revived spoken Hebrew. Listen for the cafes and buskers around you as the guide moves between the two stories.