Neve Shalom Wahat Al Salam

Neve Shalom ~ Wahat al-Salam was established in 1970 by Jewish and Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel seeking to live side by side as equals while conducting educational work for peace, equality and understanding between the two peoples. The name means Oasis of Peace in Hebrew and Arabic. The community sits on a scenic hilltop midway between Tel Aviv/Jaffa and Jerusalem, on land donated by the adjacent Monastery of Latrun. By 2021 it has 350 members, half of them Jewish, and half of them Palestinian, citizens of Israel and is still growing. The village is home to a cluster of not-for-profit institutions established over the years to further its educational and outreach work for peace and social change: The Primary School, established in the early 1980s as the first Arab-Jewish school in the country, now serves about 300 children from the village and some 20 nearby communities. It has pioneered unique methods for teaching its bilingual, binational and multicultural curriculum. ...