Horovitz told an interviewer that he wrote What Strong Fences Make because "another voice needed to be heard" in the wake of
Caryl Churchill's play Seven Jewish Children, which he argues was "offensive, distorted and manipulative".[2]
Horovitz has offered to allow any theater that wishes to produce What Strong Fences Make free of royalties, provided that a collection is taken up following all performances for the benefit of
ONE Family Fund, a charity that assists children wounded in attacks on Israel.[3][4]
The playwright has made the entire script of the play available as a downloadable PDF[5] on the website of
Theater J.
Plot
What Strong Fences Make is set at an
IDF military checkpoint just outside
Ramallah. Horovitz calls it "a simple and clear stage-play that attempts to make a statement about a real-life situation that is anything but simple and clear."[3]