Jamil Hamad

Monday, Nov. 01, 2010

    • TIME's key reporter on the Palestinian people for 28 years, Jamil Hamad, a resident of Bethlehem, collided more than once with the Israeli military. Yet Hamad, who died Oct. 17 at 72, approached journalism with an unnerving objectivity, able to see foolishness and mendacity as well as honor and kindness among the diverse peoples of his gerrymandered world.