The Negev desert is like the landscape of the moon. The mountain ranges are gray, almost without color. A million years ago it was covered by the sea, and even today you can sometimes find a shell ...

Aisha Abu-Wadi, a widow in her 30s from Kuseife, was getting out of a taxi to visit her children at school in the Bedouin town on Monday when she was shot dead by a masked man who fled the scene.