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…

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…

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.…

Watch Hand in Hand students, parents, and teachers discuss how they continue to live together, even with rising tensions and violence [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4PK7tnYzfw[/embed]

Amidst violence, our students at Hand in Hand in Wadi Ara continue to live together. Listen to them speak about what the school means to them, and what they contend with outside and inside the classroom: [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvRWkgQQ0yo[/embed]    

In 2014, Hand in Hand students were invited to light the Hannuka Menorah in the White House with President and Michelle Obama. The President spoke about Hand in Hand as he introduced Inbar and Mouran, 9th graders at the time. Watch below: [embed]https://youtu.be/cqkswFS11dk?t=298[/embed]    

Since December 6, many supporters reached out to ask how we are doing with the latest political developments and growing tensions in Israel. We were touched by that and wanted to give you a glimpse of what this time has been like in Jerusalem and in Wadi Ara. In the…