Organizations like EcoPeace, the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies and A Land For All - all three with shared Palestinian and Israeli leadership - have been working collectively for decades toward a vision that centers fair, shared stewardship of natural resources and sustainable development as the basis of lasting peace.

But if we are to preserve our value and our meaning, we cannot let our caution overtake our purpose…

The film presents an alternative to polarizing rhetoric by amplifying the voices of Palestinians and Israeli Jews who oppose war and violence and advocate for peace and empathy…

“It took years to get MEPPA passed, and when it was passed, it never occurred to anyone that it could be terminated by the president.”

Since its founding in 1996, Arava Institute for Environmental Studies has developed methods for fostering dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian students…

Jewish and Arab workers from across Israel gathered last month for a three-day seminar on workplace innovation and coexistence.

Professionals from Israel, the West Bank, and even Gaza work together to develop medical apps. What emerged were some special bonds.

In the midst of horrible headlines and images from the Middle East, PeaceWorks on Campus has arranged for several online and in-person sessions with regional experts committed to peace and coexistence. 

'As the People of the Book, we understand more than most the dangers of silencing voices and restricting access to knowledge. The scenes from today’s raid are evocative of darker times in our own history,'

Amal-Tikva, a leading NGO in the peace-building field, which aims to build capacity for sustainable and scalable peace-building activities between Israelis and Palestinians, brought together 37 other leading NGOs from both communities to discuss the critical role of civil society in revitalizing peace efforts...

The film No Other Land … was directed by a team consisting of two Palestinian filmmakers, Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal, and two Israeli filmmakers, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor.

We’ve made a deliberate, conscious choice to prioritize building bridges over perpetuating conflict. This choice is not made in denial of our national identities but stems from them…

Students for Standing Together, a new student group at U.C.L.A. that aims to unite Israelis and Palestinians to call for a cease-fire in Gaza.

Al-Issa said: ‘The mission of faith is to always bring peace and promote common values.’

Contributing to the fight for human rights, initiatives [such as Arava Institute for Environmental Studies] could become a civic front against oppression and expulsion, nationalism and warmongering on all sides.

'I don’t think closing doors is what we need. We need the opposite,’ he said. ‘Change depends on conversation and bringing people closer…’

Activists in Israel and Palestine can mobilize their respective societies in a constructive manner.

‘…as a Palestinian who was born in Jerusalem’s Old City, who has lived through the occupation, who sat in an Israeli prison for five years, I see a way out…’

The divisions in our country are not new. But in recent years, we have witnessed a significant fraying of our social fabric…

In a period of such frightening darkness, we seek to shine a light of hope pointing to the path that our two peoples must take.