only approved of 9,000 reunifications among the 140,000 petitions requesting such permits. Israel allowed such reunions for Ethiopian and Russian Jews, and in 1990 Assaily forwarded a specific request to have 140 women and children who had been deported returned to their families. Interviewed on the occasion of the 1990 Temple Mount riots in which some 20 Palestinians were killed, Assaily said provocations by either side were not the point: the problem was that Israel desired all of Jerusalem as its capital, whereas the Palestinians insist that East Jerusalem, where the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount lies, be the capital of a future Palestinian state. Books on Wheels In 1986 he developed, in collaboration with the PCSN, his own project of a mobile book-loan service called "Library on Wheels for Nonviolence and Peace" (LOWNP) in Hebron in order to encourage reading among the youth of the town, and in particular the study of non-violence. Blind children in the area can borrow books on cassettes. Puppet shows are also organized in order to teach children ways towards peace. Where the terrain did not allow the Mobile Library to pass, books were loaded onto a donkey, a "library on donkeys", in order to reach outlying homes in the hills. According to a professor of Middle Eastern history, Sheila Katz The library touched thousands of families over the next three decades, teaching traditions of nonviolence and peace in Islam to empower participation in social change. One estimate puts the number of people which have been reached by LOWNP's work at some 50,000 people over the two decades. In 2009 alone Assaily visited 83 villages and lent some 11426 books to 1496 children in the Hebron area. In time Assaily's work received funding from organisations like the World Health Organization, Pax Christi, Caritas Internationalis and Misereor, which enabled him in 2007 to branch out by developing a subsidiary Books Along the Divide service in order to furnish with reading materials young Palestinians, in taxis and buses, who found themselves obliged to wait for long periods to pass many of the 540 Israeli checkpoints. The material consists of texts on non-violence, biographies of Moses, Joseph and Jesus and works penned by Gandhi. First Intifada Assaily's research on pamphleteering in the several months following the outbreak of the First Intifada, according to which, of the 17 leaflets circulating, 163 actions were called for, and of the 17 methods