Broken Bridge by Lynne Reid Banks
Published by Puffin

A fourteen year old Jewish boy is murdered by an Arab terrorist shortly after his arrival in Israel.   His cousin Nili is, inexplicably, spared, and finds herself having to deal not only with her grief and shock, but with a very difficult moral dilemma.   The background to the story is the longstanding conflict between Palestinians and Jews in Israel, and it becomes clear that death is not the only awful consequence of war.   Set in 1992.

The story of Nili’s mother Lesley is told in One more river, which is set in 1967, when the family first came to Israel from Canada.