Who is Abdel Majid Jabari from By the Rivers of Babylon and what is their importance?

Abdel Majid Jabari is an Arab that more than thirty years ago made his personal and private peace with the Jews in Israel, Jabari has been at the top of the death list for Palestinian terrorists. He is in fact missing part of his left hand, the results of a letter bomb. Jabari loves Miriam Bernstein deeply, enough to put himself at risk by meeting her before sunrise at a café owned by a Christian Arab. Bernstein fills the void left in Jabari by the loss of his family, who fled to the West Bank in 1948. In 1967 after the West Bank came into Israeli hands, he had hoped to reunite with his family, only to find that they had fled to Jordan. He was amazed at the hatred of those left in the refugee camp.