Johannes Gerloff, born in 1963, is a professional journalist, a studied theologian and he is German. With all that carries with it in relation to Germany's past history with the Jewish people - culminating in the Holocaust during the NA ZI regime in WWII - it is that much more significant that Johannes and his wife and children have lived in Israel for the past 22 years.

A unique and refreshing balance

His many and varied contacts among Israelis, Arabs and Palestinians at all levels of society - from shepherds to saints, from common laborers...