Iglesias, 41, is part of Santiago, Chile’s small Jewish population of roughly 20,000 people. But the next day, they reunite in the park and get back to playing. When they get home, their parents are shocked and upset. They have so much fun that they lose track of time and accidentally swap their gifts: Daniel grabs Ismail’s keffiyeh, and Ismail takes Daniel’s tallit. One day, they don their scarves and meet on the soccer field, impressing one another with their crafty footwork. They even coincidentally receive the same birthday presents: a traditional scarf (a tallit for Daniel and keffiyeh for Ismail) and a soccer ball.
The book focuses on two children, one Jewish and the other Palestinian, who start as strangers with similarities: they live in the same city and have the same birthday. But children are the same everywhere, and it’s this message that inspired Juan Pablo Iglesias to write “ Daniel and Ismail.”
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