Interpretive Touch Drawing 05 Lemon Tree When Yehezkel’s wife Dalia was a child, her family moved from Europe to Israel. Palestinians were moved out of her village to make way room for the new Jewish families. Some years later, the family that had been moved out of her house was able to come for a visit. The old man who had built the house was blind. He asked if the lemon tree he had planted was still alive. They took him to it. He took a branch home with him and carried it with him for years. When Dalia’s father died, she inherited the house. She called the Palestinian family and asked them – “What shall we do with our house?’ She thought she would offer to sell it and give them some of the money. Instead, they asked if it could be kept as a place of coming-together for Israeli’s and Palestinians. Thus was born the “Open House”.