Sulha Blog

Sulha Women's Circles Melila Hellner-Eshed If you were to look at these photographs from our gatherings over the past five weeks, you would see a diverse group of Palestinian and Israeli women meeting together by the Dead Sea for four and a half hours each week. Younger and older Women, from refugee camps and towns across the West Bank, alongside Israeli women from different communities. You would see us conversing, praying, dancing, meditating, participating in workshops, a

Last Thursday, April 30th, thousands of people filled one of Tel Aviv's largest conference centers for the third annual It's Time People's Peace Summit — and Sulha was part of it. The summit brought together hundreds of Israeli and Palestinian civil society leaders alongside more than a hundred diplomats, offering an alternative vision for life in the region.

Last Friday, the Sulha Peace Movement held one of its most beautiful gatherings yet — 110 people, roughly half Palestinian and half Israeli, coming together at the stunning Ein Fashha Nature Reserve near the Dead Sea.

Chag Pesach Sameach — Happy Passover to all who celebrate! Passover is the holiday of freedom — a time when we retell the story of liberation from oppression and recommit ourselves to the values of dignity and justice for all people. And yet, as we gather around our seder tables this year, we cannot look away from the reality facing many of our Palestinian friends and neighbors in the West Bank. Freedom — the very thing we celebrate — remains painfully out of reach for so man