Alumni Spotlight: Aya Abu Saleh
"Everywhere I go – I am proud to say that I am a graduate of the Galilee School. A place where I learned that every person has endless richness and is a world unto themselves; that every person has a place and a path. I grew up knowing that Aya…
Read moreAlumni Spotlight: Fatima Yahia
In February 2017, Hand in Hand Alumni Fatima Yahia and Bar Itamari stood together in front of thousands at a gathering for Jewish-Arab cooperation and said: “We are here to assure all of you that living together is possible.” Bar and Fatima became friends in 1st grade when they…
Read moreAlumni Spotlight: Bar Itamari
In February 2017, Hand in Hand Alumni Fatima Yahia and Bar Itamari stood together in front of thousands at a gathering for Jewish-Arab cooperation and said: “We are here to assure all of you that living together is possible.” Bar and Fatima became friends in 1st grade when they started…
Read more"A dream come true:" Samia and Lihi, two mothers in Haifa on the first day of school
amia and Lihi are both mothers in the Haifa Preschool with sons who started 1st grade today. This first grade is the first of its kind in Haifa and will grow into a full elementary school in the years to come. But the road to this day was long, below…
Read moreOn being an Arab woman educator: Nadia Kinnani reflects
In my first week as the school principal, a father of one of the students came into my office. He was tall, with a mustache, and when he saw me, a small woman on a chair behind the desk, he couldn’t take it and spoke to me disrespectfully, witheringly. So…
Read moreMeet Mohamad Marzouk, Director of Hand in Hand's Community Network
Mohamad is the Community Department Director and one of the founders of the Hand in Hand Wadi Ara School. Below is his story and his famiy's story, in his own words: I grew up in the village of Aara, an Arab village in Wadi Ara, in the center of Israel.…
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