In three and a half years of fighting, Ravit Rubin and Grace Karaa have grown accustomed to the sound of shooting between their neighborhoods. But recently, the 15-year-old girls met amid the din of blow dryers in a hair salon to discuss their hopes in an upcoming beauty pageant.

Rubin, a Jewish Israeli from the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo, and Karaa, a Palestinian Christian from the adjacent West Bank town of Bethlehem, are among 26 Israeli and Palestinian girls participating in the “Miss Barrier Line” pageant.

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