Articles

• Interview with "Children of Peace" director Maayan Schwartz
  10 August 2022

  Maayan Schwartz’s film Children of Peace was screened at DocAviv (Tel Aviv’s annual documentary film festival) on May 27, 2022.

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

  In an interview for "Christian Today" Rayek Rizek, author of "The Anteater and the Jaguar" is asked about what life in the village has taught him.

• Passing of Anne Le Meignen, village co-founder
  27 July 2020

  With great sadness and deep sorrow we announce the passing of Anne Le Meignen.

• Anne Le Meignen goes for hospital care
  8 June 2020

  After consultation with her, we decided to accommodate her at the private St. Louis French Hospital in Jerusalem, which specializes in palliative care.

• "Undermining National Narratives with Family Stories..."
  21 May 2020

  "... An oral history project in a Palestinian-Jewish school". This chapter in the scholarly work, "The Teaching of the History of One’s Own Country" is based on the experience of Bob Mark at the WASNS primary school.

• Michal Zak on a meeting with grandmothers
  14 April 2020, by Michal Zak

  Michal Zak describes a women’s-only meeting conducted in the framework of International Women’s Day.

• Samah’s speech to graduates of the Open University
  20 June 2019

  Samah Salaime (acting director of the WASNS educational institutions & development director) was keynote speaker at the University’s graduation ceremony)

• A Sisterhood for Change
  15 March 2019

  Hadassah reports on women’s activists Samah Salaime (of WAS-NS) and Hamutal Gouri, and their effective"feminist coalition combating domestic violence." (Audio, 32 min)

• ’It’s Impossible to Reduce Me’: The Most Up-and-coming Jewish Comedian Dares You to Put Her in a Box
  16 January 2019

  Noam Shuster has become a popular standup comedian. Article in Ha’aretz.

• Tami and Yuval featured in Piano Journal
  15 January 2019

  WAS-NS members Tami and Yuval in the journal of the EPTA: "Coexistence between Arabs and Jews is what we believe in... it’s the only way."

• Two WAS-NS residents counted as "most influential activists"
  10 January 2018

  Two members of WAS-NS are listed among Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper’s most influential social activists of 2017.

• Reuven Moskovitch (1928 - 2017)
  9 August 2017

  On August 6, Reuven, one of the early members of Wahat al-Salam - Neve Shalom, was buried in the village cemetery

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• The sub-text in Israel’s soul-searching
  9 July 2014, by Michal Zak

  (outbound link) Despite the hand-wringing among Israelis over the deaths of Palestinians, few want to face the true reason such hatred survives...