Articles

• Youngsters from schools in Germany and Jerusalem visit WAS-NS
  11 June 2009, by Diana Webster

  On June 3, 2009 the WAS-NS Group Visits Centre received student groups from Max Rayne Hand-in-Hand bilingual school, Jerusalem and Gesamtschule Weilerswist, Germany.

• Audio interviews with School for Peace staff
  11 June 2009, by Daniel Zylbersztajn

  A 30 minute feature about the School for Peace a Conflict Facilitation Centre at Wahat al Salam Neve Shalom, that works with Jews and Palestinians from inside and outside of Israel / Palestine.

• Oxford Peace Forum
  10 June 2009

  The Oxford Branch of British Friends of NSWaS organised a ’Peace Is Possible’ Forum at the Quaker Meeting House on Sunday 17th May; one of several fundraising events scheduled for 2009 which they hope will enable some children from the NSWaS Primary School to visit their Partnership Link School in Woodstock.

• Spotlight on teachers: Reem Nashef - Science
  10 June 2009, by Frances Simmons

  Reem has been teaching Science and Geography at WAS-NS Primary School since she and her husband, Youssef, and four children moved to the village in 2000. Reem teaches Science to grades 3 and up, sharing responsibility for Science teaching with Hadas Harel, who teaches the younger classes. She also takes part in the administration of the school, where she is in charge of Pedagogy.
  Science lessons are varied and encompass all the scientific disciplines of Biology, Chemistry and Physics. The (...)

• Facilitator Training Course (2009) Opens
  29 May 2009, by Diana Webster

  May 14-15, 2009 marked the beginning of a new School for Peace Conflict Group Facilitation Training Course, with 22 participants.

• Spotlight on Teachers: Michal Litvak-Moses - Creativity
  22 May 2009, by Frances Simmons

  Michal Litvak-Moses teaches creativity classes at the WAS-NS Primary School

• Update on the Primary School
  22 May 2009

  An update on current successes and challenges.

• Nakba Day Commemorations
  17 May 2009, by Frances Simmons

  The whole school commemorated Nakba Day on Thursday, May 14. In class, the children learned about the Palestinian refugees, and about the “Right of Return”.

• "Green Day" at the Primary School
  6 May 2009

  Parents, pupils and teachers celebrated ecological and green living yesterday evening, at the school’s "Green Day".

• The School in May 2009: The Shavuot Holiday and a field trip
  May 2009, by Frances Simmons

  Grade 3&4 visit Haifa and the North
  May 20th 2009: The third and fourth grade visited Haifa, prehistoric caves, and the village of Usfiyya.
  We trekked north, climbing to caves inhabited some 200 million years ago. After exploring the caves, the children learnt how people lived using animal skins for clothing and flint tools, in a fine example of Stone Age civilisation. The magnificent caves, hidden high, winding further and darker deep into the mountains, served as both shelter from (...)

• Giving Back Series video
  22 April 2009

  A 10-minute movie produced in early 2009 for American television networks.

• Jaffa Date: First and Second Grade visit to ancient port city
  26 March 2009, by Frances Simmons

  On the edge of Jaffa lies the sabil, or water fountain; where travellers could quench their thirst upon arrival into the city. They are commonplace in many towns across the whole of the Middle East. Aptly, we stopped here first; intrepid adventurers fearlessly setting foot into a new territory. In arid areas water is a valuable and life-giving commodity, and the donation of water is an important social tradition.
  Although no longer in use, it was not difficult to imagine the tranquility of (...)

• The Next Evolution at the Visitors Centre
  25 March 2009

  The Visitors Program Director (Rita Boulos) is always seeking ways to offer something new and different to visiting groups at the Oasis, whether they come for a few hours or for a longer stay.
  Archaeology made simple. Here is one very special addition to the list of options for guests: WAS-NS resident Gideon Solimany, a professional archaeologist and social justice activist, will now be available to guide archaeological walking tours from the Oasis to the Latrun Monastery. The tour will (...)

• Doumia-Sakinah, The Pluralistic Spiritual Centre expands its boundaries
  23 March 2009

  The Spiritual Centre is helping to connect children and adults from all over the world, as well as from different parts of Israel/Palestine.

• In Gaza’s shadow: an interview with School for Peace Director Ahmad Hijazi, M.A.
  25 February 2009

  Last fall, you began a three-year term as Director of the School for Peace. Can you give us an update?
  At this time (just after a ceasefire with Gaza), we can’t discuss anything about our work without thinking about the Gaza offensive, and the continuing consequences on people and the prospects for peace… Once again, we have witnessed the futility of violence and its terrible human cost. And "the war" is still not over: the intolerable siege on the people of Gaza continues, and the people of (...)

• First Lesson in Peace
  23 February 2009

  Award-winning feature documentary, now on Teachers.tv - but viewable only from the UK.

• "Explore" video on the WAS-NS Primary School
  22 February 2009
• A Gathering to Mourn and to Protest
  18 January 2009

  The School for Peace helped to arrange a binational meeting to mourn and protest the loss of life during the Gaza Offensive.

• Youth Centre kids invite the adults for a discussion of the Gaza offensive
  28 December 2008

  Instead of a planned holiday celebration, the youth club called in adults to discuss the latest round of violence that exploded in the closing days of 2008.

• My Bruno
  2 December 2008, by Abdessalam Najjar

  I first met Bruno in a dialogue encounter session for Jewish and Arab students, at the home of Reuven Moscovitz, a teacher who had joined the group. This was in Rehovot, south of Tel Aviv.
  At Reuven’s invitation, Bruno came to the meeting with Anne Le Meignen, to explain his idea about founding a Jewish-Arab community called Neve Shalom, and to recruit more people to join the project. The whole thing felt very strange to me. Bruno’s ideas were not very clear. They lacked a practical (...)