erupted, three of his ‎siblings were in Lebanon on vacation. They were registered as absentees and so their ‎property was registered as absentee property as well. My husband inherited the entire ‎family home [three sevenths of those shares were declared absentee property]. He ‎passed away in 1973, and almost thirty years later, Israelis started coming knocking on my ‎door. They used to tell me “we are from Amidar and there are three shares registered as a‎ bsentee property here, which means the State owns them.” They took the ‎measurements of the home, and then they started bringing me a paper every month. It ‎had the amount of money I had to pay monthly for using three shares of my own home as ‎well as the debt [fines] I owe the state for staying in the home without paying. They used ‎to tell me that they will divide our home and give the three shares to other people that I ‎don’t know. Imagine some strangers living in my home and sharing the bathroom and the ‎kitchen with me...‎ [‎ In 2007]‎ ‎ we received a lawsuit from Amidar, they filed one against us. The case went on ‎for around 10 years. Amidar’s lawyer told the judge that our home falls under this law from 1948, the Absentee ‎Property Law, which means that the three shares [declared as absentee property] are ‎owned by the State. They wanted to sell the home; they wanted to make money from ‎those three shares. The judge ruled that we could buy the three shares for half the price, ‎which is one million shekels [around 275,000 USD]. We had to buy three shares of our own ‎home, and they gave us 90 days to agree on everything with Amidar and buy the shares.‎ This home has never been empty; I’ve been living in this home for 50 years and I’ve only ‎ever lived in this home and my husband lived in it before 1948. This home can’t be an ‎absentee property because it was never empty. Still, in all of these 50 years they never ‎stopped harassing me, knocking on my door, and sending people to harass me. I ‎remember one time a guy came to my home and started screaming and telling me: “This ‎isn’t your home; you think you’re going to take it? It’s not yours to take.” It was extremely painful; we ‎spent most of our lives in courts. ‎ We know that there ‎is no escape from this, and we’re also exhausted, if we don’t solve this case now it’s g‎ oing to follow our children and their children after them. Even the solution they gave us a few months ago isn’t easy. It’s not easy to b‎ uy three shares of your own home at such an expensive price. Now there is the million ‎shekels that they want us to pay. I’m really scared to die before I get to see my children ‎living peacefully in our home; I just want them to be happy here. What should I do? My ‎‎[eldest] son has four children to take care of, how can he afford to pay a million shekels?‎ My daughters would tell me to sell the home and move to another place to find 48