Articles

• Update on two girls: Battul and Malak
  26 October 2003, by Michal Zak

  It is the first day of Ramadan, a good day to share good news. We are proud and happy to share with you that Battul Jaludi, the little girl from Jenin recovered from open-heart surgery and is on her way home! The operation was successful. After six hours, the doctors were able to close the hole in her heart, and to restore the valve almost completely (80%). If it had proved impossible to restore the valve, there was the option to install an artificial valve , but in this case the (...)

• HAP helps another Palestinian girl
  10 October 2003, by Michal Zak

  Treatment will restore a West Bank girl to normal life

• Behind the Fence
  6 October 2003

  The Pluralistic Spiritual Centre, in cooperation with the School for Peace, convened a meeting based on a film screening and a presentation on the subject of Israel’s security fence.

• HAP Update: Malak goes to school
  16 September 2003, by Michal Zak

  We are all excited that Malak was discharged from the hospital and has gone into first grade, like any normal girl. At home, she continues to work-out on her knee, for which purpose we got her a bicycle which she must ride daily. It’s a struggle for her, but this is the best physiotherapy in her case. She is also wearing special garments, which place pressure on her scars. She will have to wear these for a while, so that the scars don’t grow. We are sure she will do very well in school, (...)

• The new school year gets underway, and the junior high school opens
  15 September 2003

  There was nothing routine about the opening of the 2003 – 2004 school year. First because a new seventh grade class launched the beginning of a junior high school; secondly because the primary school welcomed a new co-principal; and thirdly because just over the school fence, work was proceeding on a new school building.
  A junior high school
  For several years, NSWAS has been preparing to move up to the level of a junior high school (grades 7 - 9), and for much of the last year, a special (...)

• Memory and recognition
  September 2003, by Dorit Shippin, Dyana Shaloufi-Rizek

  Doumia-Sakinah and two other organisations commemorated the 1967 destruction of three villages in the Latrun area.

• The NSWAS Primary School in 2002 / 2003: a year end report.
  6 August 2003, by Maya Karni

  Co-principal Maya Karni tells of the challenges she faced in her first year as principal, and why she remains optimistic.

• HAP report for Summer 2003
  August 2003

  Activities by the HAP committee continued during the summer.

• Memory and Peace
  August 2003, by Dorit Shippin

  Doumia Sakina organized an open discuss with the initiators of the “Memory and Peace” initiative, which took a delegation of Palestinians to Auschwitz.

• Summer camp 2003
  31 July 2003

  Some 140 young people aged 5 to 13 took part in the highly successful NSWAS annual binational summer camp.

• "Face to Face"
  3 July 2003

  Made for Italian TV by M. Moncada and D. Mitzman (early 2000s). Source: Arcoiris TV YouTube channel.
  (English with Italian subtitles and narrative)

• Children report on the school year
  1 July 2003

  Six short reports, one from each grade level, about what they did this year in school.

• Richard Gere visits NSWAS
  15 June 2003

  Richard Gere took time out of a three day visit to Israel and Palestine to visit NSWAS.

• Two NSWAS delegates tour Britain
  26 May 2003

  ... and are invited to the House of Commons

• Visit by President of the German Bundestag Thierse and Ambassador Dressler
  25 May 2003

  ... and inaugurate a new building for volunteers

• Thoughts of NSWAS members regarding the war with Iraq
  10 April 2003
• The School for Peace wins 2003 peace prize of the Deutsch-Israelische Gesellschaft
  2 April 2003

  Two representatives of the School for Peace travelled to Berlin to receive the peace prize of the German - Israel friendship society.

• "Sweating for peace"
  1 April 2003

  A report of how high school students in Zurich raised money by organizing and taking part in a running event.

• "Shintian" Play Performance
  15 March 2003

  On Saturday, March 15, we had a moving experience with "Shintian", a play which relates the memories of an 80-year old woman from the village of Kufr Yasif in the Galilee.

• A food market
  15 March 2003

  The hotel and village residents staged a food market where delicious traditional preparations were made and sold.