Articles

• Visit of Leymah Gbowee
  21 October 2016

  In the framework of an occasion organized by the Women Wage Peace organization, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Leymah Gbowee of Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace visited WAS-NS

• Israel’s channel 1 features Circassians event
  26 June 2016

  Israel’s Channel 1 weekly news journal "רואים עולם" featured the earlier reported event for the Circassians, an interview with Prof. Yair Auron and a recounting of their story.

• Booklet on Bruno Hussar
  24 May 2016, by Anne Le Meignen

  In honor of the 20th anniversary year of Bruno’s death, this is a translation of articles originally published by Anne Le Meignen in 1996.

• Our Bruno
  24 May 2016, by Joseph Emmanuel

  Joseph Emmanuel (1933 - 2013) wrote this for a booklet written by Anne Le Meignen, which he translated into Hebrew.

• Bruno Hussar - Chronology
  24 May 2016

  Major milestones and events in his life.

• Annual meeting of the friends associations
  17 May 2016

  The annual general meeting of the WAS-NS friends’ associations took place in the village from May 4 - 7 with participants from 9 countries.

• Bob Mark in Educational Conference
  22 April 2016

  WAS-NS resident Bob Mark was invited to speak on his bilingual education research at the 2nd Annual Symposium of the Israel Comparative Education Society.

• How Israel erases Arabic from the public landscape
  6 December 2015

  The Israeli government has begun omitting the Arabic name for Jerusalem from its street signs, erasing not only the language from the Israeli consciousness, but Palestinian identity itself.

• Olive picking and community action
  30 October 2015

  Saturday 17th October was one of those days that will stay in our memory forever. In a region where everything, even the olive harvest is politicized, it was very moving to see the Palestinian and Jewish pupils of the primary school picking olives together, in a peaceful and relaxed atmosphere. The sun was shining and the air was scented with the delicious smell of fresh olives just picked from the trees. Meanwhile, members of the village came together to clean the school grounds and other (...)

• Statement on the current situation
  12 October 2015

  The residents of Wahat al-Salam / Neve Shalom condemn the cycle of violence and call on both sides to put an end to it.

• Samah Salaime Ighbariyeh
  26 May 2015

  Samah was born in 1975 in the northern village of Turan, where she also attended school. She is married to Umar Ighbariyeh and the couple have three boys: Warad (18), Muhammad (14) and Adam (7). In September 2000, just before the birth of Muhammad, the couple came to live in Wahat al-Salam - Neve Shalom. Their decision to move to the village came as a result of a process that had begun years previously. Umar had been working as a facilitator and project manager at the School for Peace and, (...)

• Dr. Raid Haj Yehia
  25 May 2015

  Spotlight on members: Dr. Raid Haj Yehia

• Garden for Franca Ciccolo
  24 May 2015

  A garden for our long-time friend in Italy, Franca Ciccolo, who passed away in 2014, was inaugurated in the village.

• Narratives in conflict: A postcolonial interpretation of youth encounters between Jews and Palestinians from Israel
  31 March 2015, by Michal Zak

  In this article we share findings from research on encounters between Palestinian and Jewish youth from Israel. Our findings are based on narrative analysis of in-depth interviews with 100 young people who participated in structured encounter workshops during 2003–2006.

• "Reverse the equation / get free of the occupation" conference
  16 November 2014

  "How to reverse the equation and get free of the occupation" was the subject of a conference organized in Wahat al-Salam - Neve Shalom on October 22

• Death of Palestinian poet Samih al-Qasim
  20 August 2014

  The village mourns the passing of the great Palestinian poet Samih al-Qasim

• Our statement on Gaza
  20 August 2014

  The ceasefire broken; the violence renewed with no end in sight. Our thoughts.

• Testimony from Gaza
  20 August 2014

  Two WASNS residents present their experiences in Gaza.

• Mechanisms of denial in the Israeli peace camp
  25 July 2014, by Michal Zak

  (outbound link) When pacifists in Israel refuse to address the true roots of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, they become part of the problem, not the solution

• Thoughts about the situation in the country today
  23 July 2014, by Eyas Shbeta

  Eyas speaks about the atmosphere that Arab citizens of Israel are feeling