Articles

• Annual Report 2022
  13 April 2023

  Full report in PDF format

• Annual Report 2021
  16 February 2022

  Annual report of the WASNS educational institutions and community

• News media during the Gaza conflict of May, 2021
  31 May 2021

  Much interest was expressed in our village’s unique model for shared society while violence raged all around.

• Messages of Peace
  16 May 2021

  The children, parents and teachers of our binational primary school produced this video with messages of peace, during the current situation of violence

• Annual Report 2020
  16 March 2021

  Full report in PDF format

• Building a peaceful future between Jews and Palestinians in Israel
  6 January 2021

  Rayek Rizek is interviewed in Christian Today

• Annual Report 2019
  8 April 2020

  An overview of the activities of the School for Peace, Primary School, Spiritual Center, Art Gallery, Youth Center, Visitors Center, Communications & Development Office

• A School for Peace - Nava Sonnenschein’s decades of hard conversations.
  2 June 2019

  Lilith (US Jewish Feminist mag) has an article on School for Peace director Nava Sonnenchein.

• Annual Report 2018
  12 April 2019

  Full report in PDF format

• The Power of Dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians
  28 February 2019

  A new book by Nava Sonnenschein.

• "Israeli & Palestinian Partners for Peace" - Jewish-Arab duo promote harmony
  28 November 2018

  Montreal’s City News reports on the visit of Development director Samah Salaime and village member Vered Marom’s speaking event at McGill U.

• School for Peace wins the Goldberg Prize
  14 June 2018

  June 13: Nava Sonnenschein and Harb Amara of the School for Peace were awarded the Institute of International Education’s 2018 Victor J. Goldberg Prize for Peace

• Peace by Design: The Story of Wahat al-Salam/Neve Shalom
  5 May 2018

  Thanks to American student Tom Austen for this film of 8:30 minutes, based on interviews with village residents.

• BBC Witness (audio and video)
  28 March 2018

  BBC Witness produced a 9 minute audio feature, broadcast on BBC World Service, and a 4 minute video feature, published on BBC World.

• Annual Report 2017
  1 February 2018

  Annual report from our educational institutions for 2017

• Book launch: ’The crazy dream of Neve Shalom Wahat al-Salam’ A new book in Italian on Bruno Hussar & the Village
  30 October 2017

  Italian Friends of WASNS have published a new book on Bruno Hussar’s history and on the Village: ’The crazy dream of Neve Shalom Wahat al-Salam"

• The Anteater And The Jaguar: Is This Our Destiny?
  17 August 2017, by Bob Fenton

  Village resident Rayek Rizek shares his journey in Israel, Palestine and in the Oasis of Peace, discusses the history of the village and explores key questions concerning the Middle East conflict.

• THE RUNDOWN | Israel’s Neve Shalom celebrates co-existence at Ramadan break-fast
  22 June 2017

  Video report on I-24 News (interviewing Rita Boulos)

• Historical Timeline
  19 April 2017

  A timeline with important dates in the history of the village

• WAS-NS presented Winspiration Day Award, 2016
  16 May 2016

  Bob Mark and Ranin Boulos represented WAS-NS at a ceremony in Baden, Austria at which the Winspiration Day Award 2016 was presented to our community.