The stone village of Ein Hod sits on the slopes of Mount Carmel overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.
Narrow winding roads, old cactus fences and galleries are scattered between preserved Palestinian homes.
When Yara Mahajneh, an independent Palestinian artist, arrived there one evening carrying equipment for an exhibition, she found gates, guards and restricted entry surrounding the quiet artists' village.
"What kind of protection does a peaceful, liberal artists' village need?" she recalled asking.
Mahajneh was attending her graduate exhibition at the Janco Dada Museum in Ein Hod, a former Palestinian village known as Ein Hawd that was later transformed into an Israeli artists' colony.
