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Many Jews don’t understand why secular Muslim Palestinians, let alone Christians, are upset by the provocation by the right on the Temple Mount.” But they are not religious at all,” they say. Calling on people to walk the streets with guns, for example, only strengthens the fear. It must stop inciting and call on the public to calm down. On top of all this we must say the most important thing, which is that the government has to take responsibility and get matters under control, which is the job of leadership. The third thing is to hold encounters and dialogues and to speak to each other and not only about each other. The second thing is to insist on creating a joint Arab-Jewish voice and to demonstrate that these voices already exist, and that there is a desire to live in peace on both sides. We must explain the point of view of each side to the other because there is a major gap between Arabs that see themselves abandoned and suffering huge incitement from the authorities to the point that you can go out into the street and someone will decide that you are a terrorist and who knows how it will end with Jews who are scared of terror attacks, which of course I condemn. There are three ways of countering the fear. We are also continuing to promote joint living projects that we began working on before the latest madness such as bringing the Arab language into the public arena and developing joint Arab-Jewish businesses.”īecause of the major fear that exists between Jews and Arabs in Israel in these crazy days, how is it possible to persuade people to cooperate? At the same time we are working on both a legal and a political level against the trend of Arab employees being fired, which has grown considerably in recent weeks. We are undertaking a massive amount of media activities on social media, stressing positive acts for joint living throughout Israel. “Voice that call for calm and cooperation, and which bring different peoples closer together. The past few weeks have posed major challenges to Sikkuy’s staff with respect to everything regarding coexistence and encouraging joint living “We are working hard in order to generate different voices to those being heard in the Israeli media,” she explains. Sikkuy, which promotes equality between Palestinian and Jewish Israelis, has offices in Haifa and Jerusalem. I’ve got Arab friends that are scared to go out into the street and speak in public in Arabic on their cellular phone.” This shows how much the Israeli public, both Jews and Arabs, have been living in fear these past couple of weeks. The place was completely empty except for a couple of tourists. But they said on the phone, don’t bother with reservations just turn up. “I phoned to reserve a place because I thought that with so much praise the restaurant would for sure be full. She found a restaurant in Haifa’s Wadi Nisnas quarter with recommendations heaping praise on it. Earlier this week she decided to take her children out to eat and looked on Google for an interesting restaurant. Natour lives in Haifa’s Hadar neighborhood. “Both Jews and Arabs in Israel are living in fear,” she says, “and the way to deal with this is for each side to learn about and become acquainted with the way the other side sees the world.” Sikkuy and other social change organizations in the NIF family have been working to amplify voices calling for calming the situation and shared society for Jews and Palestinian Israelis. Recently, we spoke to Rawnak about the current upsurge in violence in Israel. Sponsored by Social Venture Fund for Jewish-Arab Equality and Shared Society, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston and NIF.Rawnak NatourMeet Rawnak Natour, Co-Executive Director of NIF grantee Sikkuy, the Association for the Advancement of Civic Equality. Topic: An up-to-date briefing about government decision “922” for equal funding for Arab citizens in the state budget, building shared society and increasing Arab representation in Israeli media. 17 – 7-9PM – Boston – briefing at the home of Robert & Doris Gordon Topic: Equality and Shared Society between Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel: The Good News and the Bad – A Dialogue

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Sikkuy Co-Executive Directors, Rawnak Natour and Ron Gerlitz, will be in the USA and Canada for a series of talks and meetings with friends and supporters of Sikkuy between November 9-18.

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