By Nate Feldman
A recent article in The New York Times titled In an Israeli Oasis, a Model for Peace, if Messy and Imperfect by Hiba Yazbeck highlighted the continuing efforts of the Neve Shalom/Wahat Al Salam (Oasis of Peace) to promote co-existence between Jews and Palestinians in Israel.
The village has 70 families, half of whom are Jewish Israelis and the other half whom are Palestinians with Israeli citizenship. There is a school where the students from the village, and people from outside the village as well, study together with Jewish and Arab teachers. Recently, a video of the principal of the school, Neama Abo Delu, was posted in which she discussed the challenges of teaching children of different backgrounds and the concerns of the parents during the current crisis in which Israel and the Palestinians are at war.
