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In a small office in the West Bank town of Beit Jallah, just 10 minutes by car from Jerusalem, Tamara Rabinowitz and Siham Abu Awwad sit sipping thick Arabic coffee and finishing each other's sentences. To many in their communities they would seem a very unlikely pair of friends. Tamara, who immigrated to Israel from London in 1960, lost her son Ido in 1987 when he was serving in the Israel Defense Forces in Lebanon. Siham's brother Youssef was shot and killed by an IDF soldier at a checkpoint near their village. Her mother was a Palestinian political activist who served time in Israeli prison, along with three of Siham's brothers.
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130511
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2011.
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The Sport Department at the Peres Center for Peace. together with its Palestinian partner organization the Al-Quds Association For Democracy and Dialogue, uses football (soccer) to create dialogue between girls and boys from lsrael and the Occupied Territories , enhancing peace-building '-efforts and strengthening their individual and social skills. In this way, young men and women are able to become vocal proponents for peace 'rather than powerless bystanders. The Twinned Peace Sport Schools for _Girls program - - which was established in 2006 after identifying the need for a separate girls' program -- annually bene?ts 100 girls between the 'ges ofnine and I5 from the surrounding Palestinian communities oFBei1 afafa, Beit Sahour. Jericho and Ein Rafa, and the underprivileged (mostly servative and right-wing) lsraeli communities ofKiryat Gat, Merchavim, eruham. liin Karem and Kibbutz Sde Yoav. This unique girls' program if _ s to accommodate religious and cultural considerations on both sides, ttract more girls and women to sports, promote gender equity and create ique opportunity for the participants to get to know "the other side." it project, while being sensitive to cultural needs, is still ditional ideas ofthe role ofgirls and women in society At the Peres Center for Peace, we believe that sports have the capacity Ztranscend factional con?icts and bring disparate groups together. Our s projects cut across pre-existing ties based on Israeli or Palestinian tonality and create new group identity
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130512
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2011.
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We realized the need for "deeper understanding," allowing students the space and time to talk about culture, identity, their fears and the conflict itself.
How many of us have planned our lives to take a specific direction, only to find ourselves 10 years later in a totally different place? Seven years ago, a friend of mine introduced me to a group of people who were studying abroad and came to Jerusalem wanting to do something about the conflict. One of those people was a student at MIT who had taught computer science in an MIT program in Africa. He thought we might be able to do something similar for Israeli and Palestinian youths. As we all believed in education as a powerful tool to mobilize positive change, during the summer of 2004 we started the Middle East Education for Technology program, or MEET, based in Jerusalem.
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