“Stop the Bags”: the Many Worlds of Jerusalem Converge in a Fishery

El Pais

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“My friend, one minute Alahu Akbar and close.” It is Friday at noon and the call to prayer is falling from the minarets of the nearby mosques, just a few meters from the old city of Jerusalem. It is just what, in a hard-working Englishman, an employee of Al Natsha fish shop tries to explain to foreign customers, who are the majority and do not understand why they are in such a hurry to pay: they will immediately hear from various directions the …