Throughout December, 50 outstanding graduates of our peace-building courses for young Israelis and Palestinians traveled to Cyprus for multi-day intensive seminars of learning, discussions, and trust-building. They held challenging conversations about narratives and suffering, as well as initiative-building sessions for planning ways that they can make change within their own communities.
Ben Adam, one of our Israeli participants, spoke about the experience on his podcast after the seminar: “I’ve never really met Palestinians before and spoken with them… I heard things that I never knew for sure, although I always assumed that there were people on the other side saying, we have to flip a page… Hearing them gave me a lot of hope.” Link to the podcast clip (Hebrew language) can be found here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DExINF-tI6L/?igsh=MWJhcW1lY3Bqd3k0Zg%3D%3D