By Nate Feldman
The Israel21c website had an interesting profile of Mohammed Darawashe, the Director of Strategy at Givat Haviva's Center for Shared Society, an organization dedicated to building relations between Jews and Arabs in Israel.
In an article titled Arab-Israeli conflict-resolution activist helps keep the peace by Elana Sharp, it is described how after the Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, there were calls by the militant organization for Israel's Arab citizens to join the fight with them, but there were efforts by activists, such as Darawashe to help prevent a full-out war between Jews and Arabs throughout the country.
One very important thing he helped spearhead was getting Jewish and Arab mayors to issue joint calls for peaceful relations between the two populations. According to the article this led to a "collective decision by Arab citizens that what happened on October 7 does not represent (them)."
In addition to this, the Givat Haviva center offered a place of refuge to 300 residents of Israel's south to escape the area of fighting for a couple of months.
The article also mentions that Darawashe himself was personally connected to the October 7 tragedy. His cousin, Ahed Darawashe, who worked as a paramedic, was killed by Hamas while attempting to assist attendees of the Suprnova music festival which was attacked.
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