Articles

• Leadership in mixed cities: women’s presence in the public sphere
  2 August 2016

  On Friday July 29, a meeting took place in the framework of the change agents course for activists in mixed cities.

• Leadership in mixed cities: women’s presence in the public sphere
  31 July 2016

  On Friday July 29, a meeting took place in the framework of the change agents course for activists in mixed cities.

• Teacher Training for Literature Teachers
  31 July 2016

  The SFP conducted a teacher in-service training session for 42 literature teachers on the subject of teaching Palestinian poetry in the Jewish classroom.

• WAS-NS Kids in Artsbridge 3-Week Leadership Program
  25 July 2016

  A group of young people from the village are taking part in a leadership training through arts program of the Artsbridge Instittute in Massachussetts.

• Jews, Arabs planning memorial for forgotten heroes of genocides
  16 July 2016

  Article in Ha’Aretz newspaper (English)

• "Spirituality as Peace Work" - article
  5 July 2016

  "How do people in a conflict zone deal with violence, with the feeling of powerlessness, guilt, hatred, and pain? What role does religion play in such a situation?"
  Annalena Groppe spent some time in the village more than two years ago as part of her research for her BA thesis. Now, she has written an article based on her thesis. She explores the concept of spirituality as it is defined by the persons in the village she interviewed, and how they see this as relating to traditional (...)

• Iftar meals at the spiritual center
  4 July 2016

  This Ramadan, as in all recent years, the community held a series of weekly potluck Iftar Jamaie meals at the PSCC, i.e. evening communal meals to mark the breaking of the daytime fast.

• Party for the end of the School Year
  3 July 2016

  On Wednesday, 29th June the final celebration of the end of the year took place in the Primary School of Wahat al Salam - Neve Shalom.

• Building bridges with messages of peace
  27 June 2016, by Verena Massl

  An Italian Organisation and children of the Primary School of Neve Shalom - Wahat al Salam exchange drawings with messages of hope for peace.

• Lecture: How to use education as a means for advancing equality
  9 June 2016

  The principal of the Ort Sciences school in Lydda spoke to participants in the SFP mixed cities change agent course

• Leaders in environmental justice learn about energy and water injustice in S. Hebron Hills.
  7 June 2016

  Members of the SFP’s change agents course for environmentalists visit the S. Hebron Hills and learn how villagers are affected by environmental injustice.

• Update from Carmella (School Principal)
  6 June 2016

  Carmella talks about the last 3 months of school: a period marked by "the national days" as well as our very own "Peace Holiday"

• Cooperation between Hagar School, Be’er Sheva & WASNS Primary School goes on.
  6 June 2016

  Our teachers visited Be’er Sheva to meet with teachers of the Hagar School and join a lecture by the author of one of two bilingual school books they have published.

• Spotlight on teachers: Nadwa
  6 June 2016

  Nadwa has been a teacher at the Primary School of NSWAS for 11 years and lives by in the neighbouring town of Abu Ghosh, from which 24 of our students come.

• Spotlight on teachers: Yasmin
  6 June 2016

  Yasmin has been teaching for 19 years, and works primarily with the 1st and 2nd grade with her main subjects being Mathematics, and Culture & Religion.

• A new library for Umm al-Hiran
  6 June 2016

  On the eve of Ramadan, representatives of the SFP course for leaders of environmental justice went to establish a library in the village of Um al-Hiran

• Honoring Muslim Circassians who saved Jewish children
  6 June 2016

  The Peace Museum organized an event to honor Circassian villagers who saved a group of Jewish children during the Holocaust.

• WAS-NS school teachers at the Knesset
  26 May 2016

  WAS-NS School teachers visit Knesset, speak at hate crimes meeting, attend plenary discussion on improvement of status of Arabic in schools

• SFP shared cities change agents course grads visit Ramle and Lydda
  24 May 2016

  Graduates of SFP change agents leadership course for activism in shared cities organize an educational field trip

• Activists explain how they were influenced by the School for Peace change agents courses (video)
  24 May 2016