Hackathon brings together professionals in various fields to plan a project on a specific subject determined by the time allotted to it at the outset. The term “Hackathon” is derived from the word “hack” used relating to innovative programming and…
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I want to tell you about my contacts with Shimon Peres while he was President of the State of Israel. I became involved in a program of dialogue between Israeli Jewish and Israeli Arab youth which has become a befitting…
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A surprising recipe was concocted when the Executive Chef of Roomers Restaurant in Frankfurt, Germany, proposed visiting Israel to meet Israeli chefs – both Jewish and Arab, to learn from them the “recipe” for promoting values of tolerance and solidarity…
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In 2004, Paul Mor, a musician originally from England, suggested to the headmaster of the Democratic school in Ramat Hashron, to teach children in his school to play the ukulele. At the same time he persuaded the headmaster of the…
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Senior members of the Israel Scout Movement who had spent their pre-army year working with youth in various places marked the end of their service by joining the “Desert Troop” on a visit to a number of immigrant towns in…
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Kafr Qasim, and Arab town in Southern Samaria, has recently seen interesting developments in its educational system. The Kafr Qasim Comprehensive High School has twinned with the Ahad Ha’am High School in Petach Tikva. Staff members of these schools met…
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In 2008, Hanan Abu Moch and her husband Abu Gamil set up a village near the Arab town of Baqa el Garbia in northern Samaria. Hanan 38, mother of four children, is the driving force behind this village. She first…
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The “Human Kindness” Photo Exhibition opened in Haifa in January 2017 by the Curator Yossi Zamir, veteran photographer, reveals different aspects of moments of kindness shown by residents to each other during the recent fire that began in Zichron Yaakov,…
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On the road to tolerance A group of 19 year-old youth who had completed a year of pre-military service working in different communities on behalf of the Tzofim (Israeli Scout Movement) decided to mark the end of their service by a…
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A few years ago, I heard that “Blogs” were the latest fashion and although I am a salaried employee and believed that this was the pastime of self-employed persons, I decided to join a course being given by the “Bloggerist”…
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