This article bears witness to thirty years work with « at-risk youth », Noar Besikoum, encountered in Beit Ham youth homes in Israel. The author shows how the social and historical context, against the background of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, influences the way these youngsters, particularly Israeli youths, experience and get through adolescence.

revue Adolescence, 2011, T. 29 n°4, pp. 843-848.