Articles

• Spiritual Center in 2018
  1 January 2019

  A report of the year’s activities

• Newsletter of the American Friends of NSWAS - December 2018
  18 December 2018

  AFNSWAS latest newsletter is out

• "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.

• Telling our story across N. America
  22 November 2018

  WASNS development director Samah Salaime and long-term member Vered Marom have been touring the US and Canada and speaking with a variety of audiences.

• "The Accusation" – an evening on North Korea
  18 November 2018

  On Nov 15, 2018, we gathered at the Spiritual Center for an evening on the newly translated book "The Accusation" by a North Korean writer "Bandi"

• Our binational school enjoys the annual olive picking festival
  28 October 2018

  This old Palestinian tradition is also a tradition in WAS-NS!

• Artists from around the country take part in a special encounter
  24 October 2018

  In yet another workshop of our "Artists Hosting Artists" series, Palestinian and Jewish artists gathered from around the country with our hosting artist, Dorit Bat Shalom.

• Exhibition: Nonviolence Action
  15 October 2018

  On October 15, 2018 a new exhibition "Nonviolence Action" opened in the Oasis Art Gallery in Wahat al Salam Neve Shalom.

• Beyond Dialogue - Nonviolence and Social Action (Conference)
  15 October 2018

  The conference, taking place October 15, 2018 at the Peace and Friendship Library in WAS-NS, brought together Palestinians and Jews from Israel and from around the world

• Refugee Exhibition at the Gallery
  11 October 2018

  The Oasis Art Gallery hosted an exhibition around the complex, urgent and timely issue of refugees.
  Artists: Asad Azi | Eitan Altman | Bila Berg | Abed Abdi
  From the invitation:
  The experience of refugees is a long journey that never ends. Refugees have been present throughout history and on all continents.
  In our own time and place we see the lingering effects of the Shoah and its aftermath; the endless Nakba. We see the rapidly growing number of refugees who flee wars, hunger, (...)

• Visit by Danish Embassy staff
  4 October 2018

  We were thrilled to receive the Danish Embassy staff, including the Chief of Mission, H.E.Charlotte Slente

• A tribute to the great artist Gershon Knispel (1932 - 2018)
  16 September 2018, by Dyana Shaloufi-Rizek

  Gershon Knispel, who passed away on September 7, 2018, attended the opening of our exhibition, "Barriers to Peace" last year on November 18 . It proved to be his last joint exhibition.
  With great pride, appreciation and gratitude, I would like to share with everyone this information that will remain etched in my heart as long as I live.
  In my visit to the great artist Abed Abede last year, I learned from him that the amazing, great artist Gershon Knispel had returned to our country for (...)

• Summer Camp for Palestinians, 2018
  3 September 2018

  This year, the summer camp for Palestinians was conducted for a group of 35 Palestinian children from the O.P.T. living in an institution for at-risk children in Tulkarem

• Children of the Nadi perform a play for the village
  27 August 2018

  In January 2018 the Wahat al-Salam - Neve Shalom Theater Group opened for the younger of the two groups in the Nadi Youth Club (grades 4-8). The theater group was directed by actress Yasmin Bar Shalom Agmon, who grew up in the village and is currently studying acting in the Nissan Nativ Acting Studio.
  In the beginning of 2018, the Nadi became a unit of the village’s educational association, whereas previously it was part of the municipality. The theater group was among the first Nadi Youth (...)

• A happy Eid al-Adha to all friends of Wahat al-Salam - Neve Shalom
  21 August 2018

  The community takes its leave of 40 orphans who spent a week with us, and sends good wishes to everyone for a happy holiday

• Summer 2018 Newsletter
  5 August 2018

  All the news from April to July 2018

• Thousands attend "Mega Arabic Lesson" in Tel Aviv to protest Nation-state Law
  31 July 2018

  Organized by a consortium of Israeli civil society organization, the event was held to protest the controversial nation-state law, passed this month, that downgrades Arabic as one of the country’s official languages.

• Statement on the Nation State Law
  25 July 2018

  with the passing of the law, “Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People”, the aggressive right-wing government has erected yet another set of barriers dividing its citizens.

• A Middle East oasis of peace
  19 July 2018

  "The experiences of one man helping to end conflict" - about WAS-NS member Rayek Rizek and his book "The Anteater and the Jaguar" (external site)

• Hidden from View - Palestinian Women and Cities
  21 June 2018

  On Sunday, May 6, 2018, at 19:30 a special evening to launch Manar Hassan’s book "Hidden from the Eye - Palestinian Women and Cities" was conducted jointly by the Wahat al-Salam spiritual center and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. The event was held at WAS-NS.
  It was a very moving evening. The audience came from all over the country - people who knew Manar Hassan or her work surrounded her with warmth and love.
  Prof. Hanna Herzog of Tel Aviv University and of the Van Leer Institute in (...)