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In grief, mothers unite and embark on a quest for peace
Israeli Robi Damelin and Palestinian Bushra Awad are joined together by past tragedy: they both lost a child as a result of the conflict.
Jewish and Arab students come together at Hand in Hand schools
By focusing on open communication and language within their schools, Hand in Hand is fostering coexistence and understanding between Jewish and Arab students.
UN chief praises Israelis and Palestinians building a culture of peace
UN Secretary General Mr. António Guterres paid tribute to peace activists in the closing speech of his special visit to Israel at The Museum of the Jewish People
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"As we look to the new year, we refuse to live or die by the mercurial nature of the traditional negotiation process. The long, hard, and necessary work of creating communities where shared societies can thrive is ongoing and requires all of our support."
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A new BBC Northern Ireland series features clergy who played a significant role in promoting reconciliation. Two of the participants, Rev Gary Mason and Rev Ken Newell, tell Judith Cole about the personal risks they took for peace:
Blessed are the peacemakers - the risks they took for peace in Northern Ireland
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Reflecting on the effects of the Troubles and how the so-called
Next week, the first train will depart from Karmiel to Tel Aviv and two new stations will be opened - Karmiel and Ahihud, which will enable hundreds of thousands of Galilee residents to reach the center of the country within an hour and a half. This is a particularly important change for the Arab communities, which suffer from huge unemployment rates and decades of discrimination in access to public transport, and for them the new train can be breathable - if they enjoy equal conditions in using it.
However, until the last few days there was a great deal of uncertainty regarding the rights of more than 100,000 residents in the many Arab communities in the area of the line, and whether they would receive the same benefits and services as the Jewish residents.
In order to put an end to this uncertainty, we at Sikkuy, urgently contacted the Transportation Ministry, in cooperation with Knesset Member Dov Khenin, chairman of the Knesset's subcommittee on public transportation, and called on the ministry to provide the same benefits to the nearby Arab communities as the Jewish residents of Carmiel and the surrounding area From the day of the first trip.
Today we are happy to announce that we succeeded!
The Ministry of Transportation has announced the addition of 10 special bus lines and the change of routes of existing lines that will arrive from now on to the train stations from the Arab communities. The Ministry of Transportation also promised that all passengers boarding the train at the Karmiel station, as well as residents from 15 Arab towns and villages, will be entitled to receive free tickets for three months and tickets at a 50% discount for two years.
After decades in which Arab citizens were discriminated against in transportation services, the time has come for the Israel Railways to be a means of transportation for all of us.
* This is the full list of communities that will be entitled to receive free tickets from Ahihud Station: Tamra, Aramshe, Shaab, Abu Snan, Jadida Makar, Arab El Naim, Kfar Yassif, Sheikh Danon, Yarka, Damida, Jules, Yirat, Majed al-Krum, Kaukab Abu al-Hija, Kabul
العربية↓ בשבוע הבא תצא לדרך הרכבת הראשונה מכרמיאל לתל אביב, ויפתחו שתי תחנות חדשות - כרמיאל ואחיהוד, שיאפשרו ל...
Today (9/16/2017) 200 Israeli and Palestinian project alumni gathered in Beit Jala to launch a two year peace plan.
Today 200 Israeli and Palestinian project alumni gathered to launch a two year peace plan.
Must-see: Watch Bushra Awad and Robi Damelin of פורום המשפחות השכולות Parents Circle Families Forum منتدى العائلات الثكلى in a candid and intimate discussion with Anna Maria Tremonti, host of CBC Radio’s The Current:
Mothers overcome unimaginable grief and unite in pursuit of a bigger cause
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Bushra Awad and Robi Damelin have each lost sons to the fighting between Israelis and Palestinians, but they are building bridges in a quest for peace
The Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP) shared The Abraham Fund's photo.
Today our Women's Leadership group visited social start-ups in the North of Israel. This is what Jewish-Arab cooperation looks like!
The Situation حالات, יש מצב
An artistic collaboration between Israeli artists - a prayer for "New Heavens".
Song by Author David Grossman, video by artist Michal Rovner
Composed by: Yoni Rechter, Shaanan Streett, Hadag Nahash, Daniel Zamir and Berry Sakharof
For English subtitles please activate the subtitles option on this YouTube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9sxNyyfKaY&feature=youtu.be
Only a few more days until the first-ever Daughters for Life Gala honoring Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize laureate; Ronit Avni, a Peabody Award-winning social entrepreneur and media producer; and Suhad Babaa, the executive director at Just Vision, an organization dedicated to increasing media coverage and support for Palestinian and Israeli grassroots leaders working for peace.
The gala will celebrate and honor these women, while raising scholarship funds for promising female scholars to attend graduate school at CJP
Tickets are available for a reception and dinner (7 p.m.) or dinner only (8 p.m.). If you are unable to attend, but would like to still support Daughters for Life, you can do so using the donate button below:
Daughter for Life Gala Invitation
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The honorees are Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize winner and EMU graduate; Ronit Avni, a Peabody Award-winning social entrepreneur and media producer; and Suhad Babaa, the executive director at Just V...
The Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP) shared PCFF Youth Summer Camp's album.
Hands of Peace is seeking a Jewish-Israeli Regional Manager:
Hands of Peace is seeking a Jewish-Israeli Regional Manager. This position is the primary liaison with Jewish Israeli alumni, participants, potential participants and their families. The Regional Man...
ALLMEP has long recognized the need to create an alumni network of P2P graduates to serve the many participants of our member organizations and enhance cross-organizational initiatives and cooperation. We know that many organizations may offer training for their graduates and they may also want to create a group of alumni to assist them in future guiding and facilitation tasks whether as formal staff members or as volunteers. The organizations may also want to leverage their investment in their program participants, enabling them to scale and formalize their influence in other sectors of Society.
By building a community of alumni across different organizations, participants can embed their personal experience in a larger community of peacebuilders and realize that they are not alone but rather part of a wide community of changemakers. Our goal is to enable the creation of a movement of graduates, to advocate for their organizations or to take leading positions as policy makers in the future for the benefit of their goals for the peace and shared society community.
In our first-ever Alumni Fair, ALLMEP asked its 100+ member organizations to invite their alumni and present options for follow-up programming to their colleagues in the field. On August 18th at Givat Haviva, around 100 attended the Alumni Fair and heard presentations from 15 different representatives of ALLMEP's members. Click the link below to see one-page programs that were offered by ALLMEP's members and view our album from the Alumni Fair below.
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Photos: Chen Leoplold
"Young men and women have the power to challenge physical and psychological barriers and to seek to build a common future. Allow me to pay tribute to Palestinians and Israelis who are taking positive actions, often very quietly, to promote tolerance, cooperation, and understanding between the two peoples."
UN Secretary General Mr. António Guterres Speech at Beit Hatfutsot | Beit Hatfutsot
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UN Secretary General, Mr. António Guterres, is delivering the closing Speech of his special visit to Israel at Beit Hatfutsot – The Museum of the Jewish People.
Leaders of the Hand in Hand school, among the highest-ranked in Israel, talk about contending with differences and the atmosphere during times of tension: 'We’re an incubator, but we’re not a bubble'
Hand in Hand: Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel
September 1st is the first day of the new school year in Israel. Ha'aretz editorial today recognizes the importance of Arabic language studies for Jewish pupils, and pays tribute to, ALLMEP's member organizations Merchavim and Abraham Fund Initiatives for their leading role in promoting Arabic language studies and the integration of Arab teachers in Jewish schools.
Givat Haviva, another member organization (not mentioned in the editorial) promotes Hebrew language studies in Arabic pre-schools and schools.
מכון מרחבים ע"ר Merchavim Institute معهد مجالات, The Abraham Fund, Haviva Givat
Jason Greenblatt, Special Representative for International Negotiations, visited Hapoel Abu-Gosh Mevaseret Zion, the first Jewish and Arab mixed soccer team in Israel:
Jason Greenblatt visited a mixed Arab and Jewish soccer club in Mevasseret Zion
The President's Special Representative for International Negotiations, Jason Greenblatt visited a mixed Arab and Jewish soccer club in Mevasseret Zion, which...
ALLMEP held its first Alumni Fair at Givat Haviva's campus for over 100 alumni of the various members of ALLMEP - Photos by Chen Leopold
We are kicking off our first Alumni Conference #peacestartswithme #allmepalumnifair
Tomorrow's the big day! The alumni of our 100+ member organizations are coming together tomorrow for ALLMEP's First-Ever Alumni Fair!
#ALLMEPAlumni #peacestartswithme
The alumni of our 100+ member organizations are coming together in just 3 days! What's Next: ALLMEP's First-Ever Alumni Fair #ALLMEPAlumni #peacestartswithme
Learn more about ALLMEP member Interfaith Encounter Association - watch this short film by award winning filmmaker Reuben Aaronson!
אגודת המפגש הבין דתי
Interfaith Encounter Association
The IEA works to build inter-communal bridges in the Holy Land through dozens of on-going groups that meet regularly for meaningful conversations. This film ...
Cross-Border Environmental Cooperation: Israel, Palestine and Jordan - Arava Institute for Environmental Studies
Cross-Border Environmental Cooperation: Israel, Palestine and Jordan - eTurboNews (eTN)
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When Shadi Shiha arrived at the Israeli-Jordanian border and saw the armed Israeli soldiers and the Israeli flag, he almost turned around and went home. “I really panicked,” the told The Media Lin...
The Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP) shared פורום המשפחות השכולות Parents Circle Families Forum منتدى العائلات الثكلى's video.
מוזמנים לצפות ולשתף את הכתבה מהערוץ הלווייני ׳אל-חורה׳, על פורום המשפחות השכולות ועל הפרויקט It’s Time for Peace. ندع...
פורום המשפחות השכולות Parents Circle Families Forum منتدى العائلات الثكلى
What’s Next? ALLMEP 2017 Alumni Fair on August 18th, 2017, in Givat Haviva.
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The goal of the fair is to be a first step in building a community of graduates under shared interests and to form a framework of continuation for those who attended their programs with the goal of leveraging their long investment in participants.
Building a community of graduates across different organizations, participants can embed their personal experience in a larger community of peacebuilders and realize they are not alone, but are indeed part of a wide community of changemakers.
A community of graduates across organizations can be a fertile ground of cross-organizational initiatives and cooperation. In the very long term, the way to create a vivid peace movement that is rooted on shared society organizations can come from the graduates from the collective action of those organizations.
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