Eric Orner is a cartoonist and animation artist. A recent graphic short story of his about life in Tel Aviv, "Weekends Abroad" is featured in Houghton Mifflin's Best American Comics 2011. Eric's work also appears in the recently released book from Scholastic, The Letter Q.
Between 2007 and 2009 I lived and worked in Jerusalem. My apartment was in Abu Tor, a hillside district near Mount Zion and the border between Israel proper and the…